In theory, gaming at 720p on a 1440p display should be the same as 720p on a 720p display. In practice, some displays have crappy scaling algorithms that add unnecessary blur anyway.
In theory, gaming at 720p on a 1440p display should be the same as 720p on a 720p display. In practice, some displays have crappy scaling algorithms that add unnecessary blur anyway.
DavidGraham
Veteran
What if we disbaled panel scaling all together? let the GPU handle that?
I know the concept is sound in theory, but I just think if it is really any feasible it would have been exploited by now, for example by Console's makers, maybe even in Tablets and Smart Phones too. let the system play at half res achieving high performance with no loss of IQ, sounds like a pipe dream to be honest.
Apple did exactly this with their retina line of iPads -- the retina resolution was exactly quadruple that of the "standard", so that the X and Y axis scaled exactly by 2x for backwards compatibility. Now, for console makers, you have to consider all the idiot fanboys who would've gone ape about half resolution. Nevertheless, several apps did do half resolution in one axis but full rez in another IIRC.
Interesting. I wonder if there's any evidence to suggest than you should pick one axis over the other for such a mixed scheme.
http://videocardz.com/49883/nvidia-geforce-gtx-800m-series-revealed-cebit
860M and 850M are Maxwell GM107 GPUs.
860M and 850M are Maxwell GM107 GPUs.
Blazkowicz
Legend
Traditionnally you focus on full or high vertical resolution. It was nice for scanline oriented displays (i.e. CRT) ; and CRT or analog TV has a clearly identifiable vertical resolution, whereas the horizontal res is some analog, fuzzy thing.
Perhaps it simply looks good, I remember Duke Nukem 3D at 320x400 was kick-ass! (but a pain to get running)
Designing a scaler is easier, you can simply do it on individual scanlines. Consoles may use e.g. 1440x1080 scaled to 1920x1080. Even Cinemascope is horizontal scaling, done with optics.
Blazkowicz
Legend
Is there a tech demo to show off what can be done with such bajillions bytes of V-RAM?
Ah, it's on GK104 geforce 880M.
Ah, it's on GK104 geforce 880M.
I guess that's quite possible. In the meantime, there were apparently 8GB r9 290x on display at cebit, as well as "6GB 384bit r9 270x" (I assume the manufacturer had no idea what the card displayed actually was, though I guess it might be possible a tahiti based card with that name really exists). That might indicate future new cards will have more memory indeed.
forgot the cebit link (in german): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...-fruehestens-im-zweiten-Halbjahr-2139532.html
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Actually Sapphire has released R9 290X with 8GB mem
sheepdogexpress
Newcomer
Is there any news for an AMD counter for 860m? seems like kind of a worrying point since AMD is losing market share faster in this market.
Priyadarshi
Newcomer
SVOGI requires huge VRAM but PRT is there to rescue. 8GB makes sense for shared memory architectures like the PS4 but just for VRAM? Overkill for current generation!
DavidGraham
Veteran
You have to also consider that this method will exacerbate the effect of Aliasing. Pixels will now be 4 times their size, aliasing too.
Blazkowicz
Legend
Even with pixel doubling that 2.8K laptop has a resolution slightly higher than the standard 1366x768.
Or reduce it. Do you have four times the pixels, but it all depends how do you do re-escale.
http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Unveils-New-Lineup-of-GeForce-800M-Series-Mobile-GPUs/
840M and 830M confirmed to be Maxwell architecture, probably GM108.
840M and 830M confirmed to be Maxwell architecture, probably GM108.
LiXiangyang
Newcomer
In jd and taobao(China's amazon/ebay), there are several laptop models with gtx850/860M for pre-order now (according to some e-retailers, they will ship the products in april).
