Direct X 10/11 Question - Answer (Translated)

[viion]

Tesselation actually can make the game run faster. The GPU has a seperate tesselation unit. They could reduce the default polygon count of all objects in the world and by applying tesselation near objects would still have more detail than they have now. You could even display more players at the same time.

I never knew that, quite interesting, im tempted to redownload Crysis 2 to see how it'll handle with Tess on.

[Rydin]

I never knew that, quite interesting, im tempted to redownload Crysis 2 to see how it'll handle with Tess on.

You have an AMD card? Tessellation is NVidia's ace in the hole... The GTX cards (Fermi in particular) are built for it whereas AMD cards don't do it nearly as well

[Coldfire]

You have an AMD card? Tessellation is NVidia's ace in the hole... The GTX cards (Fermi in particular) are built for it whereas AMD cards don't do it nearly as well

Highend NV cards have two tesselation units. But the computational power of the AMD cards is better. I think having a high tesselation performance is important for a DX11 gamer card since it's one of the two most important DX11 features. The other is DirectCompute which enhances postprocessing and other math on the GPU. I hope AMD learned from that and enhances the tesselation performance on their highend models some more.

[Rydin]

Highend NV cards have two tesselation units. But the computational power of the AMD cards is better. I think having a high tesselation performance is important for a DX11 gamer card since it's one of the two most important DX11 features. The other is DirectCompute which enhances postprocessing and other math on the GPU. I hope AMD learned from that and enhances the tesselation performance on their highend models some more.

Yea, I learned the hard way with Metro 2033 and a Radeon HD 5870

[Tiraelina]

Highend NV cards have two tesselation units. But the computational power of the AMD cards is better. I think having a high tesselation performance is important for a DX11 gamer card since it's one of the two most important DX11 features. The other is DirectCompute which enhances postprocessing and other math on the GPU. I hope AMD learned from that and enhances the tesselation performance on their highend models some more.

It's really a nil issue because nVidia purposely pushes devs to use unrealistic amounts of tessellation to make their hardware look better. Which is no doubt the reason AMD added an option in the CCC to limit tessellation levels.