ATI / AMD tessellation Demo

The tessellation support contained in all the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series allows for the generation of highly detailed geometry from simple base meshes and displacement maps. This feature enables game developers to significantly raise the visual quality and complexity of their titles while lowering the cost of development. Tessellation offers a number of benefits in addition to increased geometric complexity - including more animation data, higher quality animation and stable, predictable performance. Tessellation is also an effective method of compression for both vertex and animation data giving both memory and storage savings.

The detailed geometry of the mountain range is generated on the fly using displacement mapping from a coarse base mesh. With tessellation and ATI Radeon HD 2000 series displacement mapped surfaces finally become first class citizens. In addition, the snow cover is generated procedurally, based on the slope of the generated geometry.

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[SynodCenturion]

Hey, can u enable the tesselation unit on the 2900XT?

And how? and with which patch or cracked patch? driver?

Or isnt the 2900 Xt not powerful enough to perform realtime unigine tesselation?

[johnscooper]

@SynodCenturion the 2900XT can indeed do tessellation if it is implemented in the software that you are running be it a game or download-able tech demo

[nexus1g]

@SynodCenturion The 2900XT does not do Tessellation. The hardware-level tessellation is only found in DX11 cards. Tessellation can be programmed to be done by the CPU, but no one does that since it's an insanely huge performance hit.

[cobrelon]

Thx for Video and Details :)