AMD GrassFX: apu+gpu > cpu+gpu

[monstercameron]

 

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187254-amds-kaveri-onslaught-new-apus-better-pricing-and-lower-power-consumption

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktG7QX2BH4

 

Apparently it is based on tressfx...is this the future? Well darn it it should be!

[MercFX]

You gain a full 8 fps by using an APU! Shweet

Seems pretty cool though.

[wng_kingsley7]

Come on amd! Bring on your a game (>_<*)

[Manny Calavera]

that grass looks pliable and rubbery  

 

its good to take use of iGPU but i hope we will see games use that not just forgotten tech

[DavidTheWin]

Bear in mind this is just a tech demo, the visuals don't look so good because they won't have hired artists to make a tech demo look good.

[Ren]

Go figure, more graphics cores means more fps.

 

 

They'd have to make some serious APUs for this to make a difference for buyers, I think.

[Marvzl1357]

While cool, I feel that the way the grass sways still looks fake as hell

[ACatWithThumbs]

So they made their own version of the Crysis 3 grass...
Nvidia also has their own grass physics:

[salminsh]

Nvidia also has their own grass physics:

what a surprise,

and ?

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

Why am I not really that impressed?

[pbenologa]

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Is it just me or the APU was paired with a R9 290?

[flibberdipper]

Is it just me or the APU was paired with a R9 290?

It was.

 

Really AMD? Get your head out of the A-Game, and put it back in the FX-Game.

[Misanthrope]

Good for midrange builts, but for high end stuff the GPU will eventually be bound by only 4 not-so-fast cores on the APU

[xAcid9]

Is it just me or the APU was paired with a R9 290?

 

It's in the desc?

 

Left: Radeon HD 5770 only

Right: Radeon HD 5770 (Rendering) + A10-7800 (OpenCL Compute)

 

[atomicmonkey101]

You gain a full 8 fps by using an APU! Shweet

Seems pretty cool though.

 

Could be legitimately useful on more demanding titles like metro or crysis where any added FPS you can get makes the experience better. But I see what you mean, the difference between 90 and 98 FPS is almost indistinct. 

[Ashley]

Pcper did an article on this. It wasn't grassFX but using an APU for compute alongside the GPU. http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Fully-Enabling-A10-7850K-while-Utilizing-Standalone-GPU

 

If AMD pulls off OpenCL features everyone likes and can draw people away from CUDA then APUs could start being a great value. Especially with DX12/Mantle taking off CPU overhead.

[Rekx]

Stop all these tressfx, grassfx and hairworks, so annoying and boring. What's next wallfx :-P Do we really need a name for everything that is physic/engine related?

[Misanthrope]

Stop all these tressfx, grassfx and hairworks, so annoying and boring. What's next wallfx :-P Do we really need a name for everything that is physic/engine related?

 

Huckleberry pie-fx? I personally need we need a subset of instructions to make huckleberry pies as photorealistic as possible, just think about it:

 

[Rekx]

Huckleberry pie-fx? I personally need we need a subset of instructions to make huckleberry pies as photorealistic as possible, just think about it:

Battlefield now with a brand new feature called huckleberry pie-fx. Amazing idea

[7850OC]

@jesper101996 i don't get you man

 

this great news :lol: is... bad for you ?

 

somehow ?

 

 

 

TressFX is awesome by the way

[Applepienation]

It's.... Actually kinda underwhelming. It looks very simple and doesn't behave like how grass actually does. I mean of course it will be difficult to get grass to behave realistically, but here it looks like they didn't even really try.

[xAcid9]

^ the grass in Nvidia video behave pretty realistic.

[pbenologa]

It's in the desc?

 

I was referring to this

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GrassFX-640x262.jpg

[dalekphalm]

It's.... Actually kinda underwhelming. It looks very simple and doesn't behave like how grass actually does. I mean of course it will be difficult to get grass to behave realistically, but here it looks like they didn't even really try.

I just watched the demo video, and while the art style is pretty basic (it's a tech demo, they don't really care about the art), the physics simulations look pretty good with the grass. What exactly where you expecting? It's obvious that the grass is longer grass, perhaps field grass, not your typical lawn grass.

 

To say that they didn't even try is, in my opinion, a ridiculous statement. It's so much better than the current non-existent grass physics.

[xAcid9]

I was referring to this

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GrassFX-640x262.jpg

 

Oh.. my bad.   :wacko: