Back in Black--AMD HD 4870 X2 Previewed
Good news arrived for PC gamers with a healthy amount of cash to spend when previews of AMD's latest video card trickled onto review sites this past Monday. So far the results look very promising. It's wonderful that AMD still has some serious fight in them on the graphics side, with the new 4870 X2 besting the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 in some early benchmarks. Previews have speculated that the card will cost in the neighborhood of $499.
Hopefully games will start making use of the tessellation engine that AMD keeps touting. Though it isn't a feature of Direct X or OpenGL
yet, but hopefully Microsoft will be adding it to the Direct X 10.1 API
(Which may be renamed to Direct X 11).
The
tessellation Engine will allow game developers to create extremely
detailed terrains and characters with fewer polygons.This will
bring an Incredible amount of detail without increasing demands on processing power.
Check out some previews at:
Anandtech
[H]ardOCP
The Tech Report
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