Unigine Engine ha anunciado el lanzamiento del primer benchmark para DirectX 11, "Heaven", que se basa en su motor de propiedad Unigine™. La compañía ya ha hecho su nombre entre los overclockers y entusiastas de los juegos para descubrir el reino de la verdadera capacidad del GPU con los demos previamente publicados, "Sanctuary" y "Tropics". Sus capacidades de benchmarking están acopladas con una llamativa integridad visual, de una obra gráfica refinada.
In the benchmark, a disembodied camera pans through a floating fantasy town with grassy hills, paved roadways, and a square with a dragon in the center. The user can press keys to enable or disable tesellation, which increases the polygon count of various objects, from the dragon to walls, floors, and rooftops. The Heaven benchmark also lets you jump into the world and walk around, should you want a closer look at some of the eye candy.
El benchmark "Heaven" se destacan por las siguientes características claves:
- Native support of OpenGL, DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11
- Comprehensive use of tessellation technology
- Advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion)
- Volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm
- Dynamic simulation of changing environment with high physical fidelity
- Interactive experience with fly/walk-through modes
- ATI Eyefinity support
Requerimientos de Software:
- .NET framework 2.0 (Windows version only, optional)
- OpenAL (included into Windows installer)
- Latest stable video drivers
Requerimientos de Hradware:
- Tessellation feature REQUIRES a GPU with DirectX 11 support!
- ATI Radeon HD 2xxx and higher or NVIDIA GeForce 7xxx and higher (recommended: NVIDIA 8800 / AMD 4800 series)
- 256 Mb of video memory
El Demo/Benchmark "Heaven" se puede descargar aquí.
También estan disponibles un par de demos tech de ATI/AMD:
AMD Mecha DirectX 11 Demo
The Mecha demo shows the results of a new approach to rendering semi-transparent objects without pre-sorting, known as order-independent transparency (OIT). It is made possible by the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics processors and the new features of Microsoft DirectX 11 technology. Blending is an order-dependent operation that requires sorting objects before rendering them. Atomic operations and append buffers make it possible to construct per-pixel fragment lists and sort them on the GPU. The results are a significant increase in speed and accuracy over those possible with traditional techniques. NGOHQ Download Link - 199MB
AMD Ladybug DirectX 11 Demo
The Ladybug demo shows the results of a new approach to simulating lens-accurate depth-of-field effects based on real-world parameters of focal length and focus distance. This technique is made possible by the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics processors and the Microsoft DirectX 11 and Direct Compute 11 technologies. Depth-of-field is used in feature films by cinematographers to subtly guide a viewer’s attention through a shot or to heighten the emotion of a scene.- NGOHQ Download Link - 192MB
Fuente: Tweak Town
