New instancing demo

Athlon XP 3200+ and 6800GT @ 420/1100 w/DX9.0c, 61.76 and SM3 enabled as far as I can tell with SM3 enabled.

1 - 275
2 - 275
3 - 350
4 - 120
5 - 75

On Chalnoths system, option 1 is faster than option 2. On ysoya's system, option 2 is faster than option 1. And on mine, they are the same speed.

Edit: Just tried it at stock speeds, 350/1000
1 - 267
2 - 274
3 - 350
4 - 122
5 - 78

 

I don't think he's shooting from the hip, rather somewhere pretty close to the hip.

 

Maybe.

And with respect to the other poster with a 6800 GT, it might be the drivers. This early-on, different drivers are bound to produce different results. I'm currently using the 65.62 drivers.

 

Win2K SP4, 2100+, GF4-4200 64MB, DX 9.0c
Right after starting a msg box with "Error" caption ,no text and only "ok" btton" is shown. quits after clicking ok.

 

1: 398
2: 405
3: 430
4: 171
5: 92

 

I'm assuming that's on the system in your sig?

 

Please don't feed the troll. Just wait for the orderly to take Ruiner back to his padded cell and then everything will be nice and quiet again.

 

I cant get it to run for some reason. Im on a 6800gt dx9.0c (most of the files in dxdiag end with 2126) and the 61.77 drivers. The error is couldnt initalise direct3d. Make sure directx is installed. Im using the exe from the zip

 

Surprise! Maybe Nvidia's implementation of SM3.0 instancing isn't as good as we originally thought now we have another implementation of instancing to test it against?

 

The application quits at startup with an invalid instruction.. I guess that must be my old thunderbird@800MHz

 

Performance on my rig (P4 3.0GHZ + GF6800U at stock 61.77)

1:348
2:385
3:367
4:178
5:84

At high framerates (300+), the fps counter changes too fast. Can you make a version with a moving window average please Humus?

 

I didn't know Humus coded his demo to use a vertex frequency stream divider.

 

Exactly. This demo probably doesn't use NV40's GI at all.

 

How does the NV40 do GI ?

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Doh! Don't answer that - I just scrolled up a bit from the link I posted below and read the HLSL_Instancing

 

Well here's one way to do it. 20million/second.

http://download.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/samples.html

Scroll down to GPU Particles

 

I run WinXP SP2 RTM and most of the files end with 2180 in dxdiag.

Some approximated results:

1: 370
2: 392
3: 380
4: 140
5: 49

R9800 NP, P4C 2.4 @ 2.8, 2 GB RAM

Cool demo, humus.

 

i got 5 - 63

athlon 64 3000+@2.4ghz

x800xt pe

dunno how that is

 

Well Ati and Nv are not doing it the same way, Ati is using a trick AFAIR