Then again, a lot of MGS4 cutscenes on PS3 run at that type of framerate already, and in 1024x768. Now, to be honest, that particular scene ran fine on PS3.
The NGP is obviously lagging behind the PS3 in sheer rendering power. But it's still an impressive piece of work for a handheld.
are we going to see difference like this in same special effects on NGP and PS3?
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/medium/2007/08/Fur_Shader.jpg
the NGP GPU support SM 4.1 right?
Fur shading is pretty much a vertex only effect in itself (transparent texture on a volume, which in its turn is inflated uniformly. The more layers, the better the effect). That "DX10" implementation in Lost Planet seems just to add a post processing pixel shader effect (be it screen space or on the surface itself, I cannot say). In other words, you don't need D3D10 feature set to achieve such an effect.
In the rendering world, real-time or not, there many ways to obtain the same effect. It's always a matter of balancing the performance/result ratio.
And in this particular case, I think it's just a PC-exclusive effect Capcom/Nvidia tied to DX10 because... well, Nvidia had G80 DX10 compatible GPUs to sell.
The only thing I would question is the Texture one. It might physically be able to hold more textures and or better textures depending on final ram amounts and usage. However whether it has the power to display all those high res textures is another matter.
You will anger our TBDR overlords with your lack of faith in SGX!
More seriously, texture filtrate available at launch (in case of some downclocking shenanigans) would be an interesting information. From what I gather, fillrate is good on devkits, now it's just a matter of defining what "good" stands for in numbers.
if the 128MB of VRAM is true I would love to see how easy it can run wii ports just for the hell of it lol isn't that more VRAM than the Wii has total RAM?
It would run Wii ports in 960x544 (Around twice the resolution the Wii renders at in 640x480), without breaking a sweat. Wii is 1999-2000 DX7 class era hardware, let's not forget about that.
& I think this will be perfect for Dreamcast games on PSN , Dreamcast had a PowerVR GPU with 4MB VRAM & the NGP has a PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU with 128MB of VRAM 32 x more VRAM alone this should make lite work of Dreamcast EMU .
right?
VRAM is just RAM dedicated to video work. In other words, it has no serious bearing on the capabilities or the compatibility of the platform while emulating/reproducing work of other architecture.
It's more a question of how fast the GPU can read, write and access (Read, Write, Random Access and Latency) the memory. And something tells me that Dreamcast ports aren't going to hurt the SGX543MP4+ much. Now, as far as emulation goes, I'd say you'd have enough grunt power to emulate this thing correctly, yeah. Now, who would wrote that emulator? Sega doesn't really need to emulate the whole thing to get DC games on the thing, especially if they have source code lying around. Obviously a full blown emulator would allow Sega to propose DC games more easily à la PSOne Classics. There's a business opportunity here, indeed.
Dreamcast had a custom PowerVR2 graphics chip with 8 MB RAM.
PVR2DC or CLX2, you of all the posters here should remember that chip by its real name!
