NV35 and Dawn 2 Demo

[parhelia]

Tom's Hardware :

"What was perhaps more impressive however, was the fact that he shared a little sneak preview glimpse of the next generation product that they are working on. With the GeForceFX just starting to make its way into the channel (according to Nvidia), they already have the next generation GPU up and running. It is so far along in fact that they show a brand new version of the "Dawn Demo", but with a special twist. This time, not only Dawn was prancing around on the screen, but her three sisters as well. Of course it didn't take a rocket scientist to see the amount of potential graphics power that this next generation product could be packing. While he declined to release any additional details, he said "We are not ready to give up the performance crown and out next generation product will take performance to another new level when it is released and continue Nvidia's as the performance leader." Nvidia is clearly he is very serious about recapturing the performance crown and of course this is a good thing. "

Anyone noticed that the 3 fairies are doing exactly the same thing (look at the position of the arm of the 3 fairies)? I wonder whether it is rather a "copy paste" of the Dawn fairy. This could mean the vertex shader calculation is only done once, then copy-pasted which saves on calculations, while letting reviewers believe there is an incredible amount of calculations being performed.

 

[PiNkY]

You still need to transform each vertex, so basically you would need thrice the vertex throughput... If this runs at a comparable framerate to GFFX's demo, this sure seems to be an impressive showing.

 

[surfhurleydude]

Discussed here:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4752