[psolord]

Yesterday, Windows 7 launch day, saw also the coming of a pretty cool benchmark/tech demo from the awesome guys at Unigine!

You can witness the effect of tesselation in the following video

YouTube - Hardware tessellation with DirectX 11 (Unigine "Heaven" benchmark)

As for the lucky blokes that already own an Evergreen, you can get the executable here!

Post your results and your videos!

I will have my 5850 next week!

edit-> Here's the complete DX11+Tesselation video btw!
YouTube - Unigine "Heaven" DX11 benchmark

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[ptr1aa]

4800 series have hardware tesselation , even 2900XT has it , so i guess we won't need to buy DX11 cards for this feature , unlless AMD is a bitch and won't support it from the drivers.

[psolord]

It seems it is a pretty heavy benchmark!

A friend of mine did some tests too.

Q9550 stock, ATI 5850 stock

1920X1080 2XAA DX10 no Tesselation 41 fps
1920X1080 2XAA DX11 no Tesselation 42 fps
1920X1080 2XAA DX10 + Tesselation 26 fps

It seems there's quite a big performance impact from the tesselation after all!

I thought it was like free or something! :S

[german103]

what about DX11 + tesselation?

[NerosDevil]

Originally Posted by psolord

It seems it is a pretty heavy benchmark!

A friend of mine did some tests too.

Q9550 stock, ATI 5850 stock

1920X1080 2XAA DX10 no Tesselation 41 fps
1920X1080 2XAA DX11 no Tesselation 42 fps
1920X1080 2XAA DX10 + Tesselation 26 fps

It seems there's quite a big performance impact from the tesselation after all!

I thought it was like free or something! :S

Test ain't complete, please try again, lol.

Originally Posted by ptr1aa

4800 series have hardware tesselation , even 2900XT has it , so i guess we won't need to buy DX11 cards for this feature , unlless AMD is a bitch and won't support it from the drivers.

Guess you missed out Unigine Tropics tool.

[birdman86]

1920X1080 4XAA 16XAF DX11 no Tesselation 43 fps
1920X1080 4XAA 16XAF DX11 + Tesselation 20 fps

920 @ 4.2ghz
HD5870 @ stock
Windows 7

Edit: should also note that this was not done with the benchmarking tool. Only some scenes from some free roaming.

Edit 2: Full benchmarks
--------------------------------------------
1680x1050 8XAA 16XAF DX11 + Tesselation
--------------------------------------------
Heaven Demo v1.0
FPS:
25.9
Scores:
653
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Oct 22 2009
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU flags:
4009MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 8.661.0.0 1024Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1680x1050 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled

--------------------------------------------
1680x1050 8XAA 16XAF DX11 no Tesselation
--------------------------------------------
Heaven Demo v1.0
FPS:
40.4
Scores:
1018
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Oct 22 2009
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU flags:
4009MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series 8.661.0.0 1024Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1680x1050 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled

[Teemax]

It looks really cool

DirectX 11 seems like a good step forward. And from the developers' support, I guess we'll see much quicker adoption than DirectX 10.

[Teemax]

Just watched the whole demo again in DirectX 11.

AMD might have an unexpected advantage on DirectX 11. I didn't expect to see DirectX 11 so soon, and now we have a polished 3D engine already even before DirectX 11 is officially released.

Probably nobody has an NVIDIA Fermi card right now, so most of the testing/tweaking would be done on AMD/ATI hardware. NVIDIA'd better hurry up.

[glyfone]

anyone knows how tesselation works?

[psolord]

Thanks for your input guys.


I am really really curious, how would fermi run this.


Has anyone tryed it with a crossfire setup?

[FATRAT]

Originally Posted by birdman86

1920X1080 4XAA 16XAF DX11 no Tesselation 43 fps
1920X1080 4XAA 16XAF DX11 + Tesselation 20 fps

I wonder if you can run the tesselation on a second graphics card, that would solve the performance drop right?

[XHD2560x1600]

AMD has big advantage in DX11, All the currently being developed games are all being developed with ATi cards. ATi has been giving out Direct X 11 cards to developers for 1 YEAR now. nVidia has yet to even start working with the new API. I wouldn't be suprised if you seen an ATi the way it's meant to be played logo

My score... 1920x1080 0 AA tessellation Enabled. (2560x1600 wont work for some reason)



Added 1920x1080 2X AA tessellation Enabled

[psolord]

@XHD

Which Radeon 5800 do you have mate?

[XHD2560x1600]

ASUS 5870

[psolord]

Cool! Thanks! Nice overclock you got there!