Nvidia Fermi Renders Look Ultra Realistic
Visuals stemming from Nvidia's Fermi may make you do a double-take.
Memorex used to have a very catchy slogan: is it live, or is it Memorex? That very slogan came to mind when viewing a few outlandishly realistic renders here on a Chinese forum. Thanks to Nvidia's Fermi hardware, virtual realism has taken a huge step towards mimicking reality to the point of asking: is it real, or is it a render? A "dramatic upgrade" doesn't justify the visual leap Nvidia has made in virtually recreating faces and environments.
Fermi, the company's next-generation CUDA architecture, is jammed pack with more than 30 million transistors and a maximum of 512 CUDA cores "enabling supercomputer performance," as the forum post states. If the leaked images are indeed genuine--showing fantastic ray tracing goodness, facial hair, and even defined skin pores (sans zits)--then gamers have a lot to look forward to when Nvidia launches the GeForce 300 series... possibly by the end of the year.
Electronista points out that a second set of forum users have noted that Nvidia confirmed the launch of notebook versions of Fermi. While the supposed release date is a vague "near future," it's estimated that the chipsets will be aimed at the mid-to-low end laptops. The GTS 360M will serve as the company's mobile performance chip, and the GT 225M and GT 330M will be geared towards mainstream models. Low-end systems will likely integrate the GeForce 310M and 305M GPUs.
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these are not renders, these are photo projections from a photo taken by a digital camera
cool
These aren't the renders you're looking for.
Let the nvidia fanboys rejoice, I'll put my 2 5870s in xfire against it any day!
Fermi, the company's next-generation CUDA architecture, is jammed pack with more than 30 million transistors
no , its 3,000 million or 3 billion as per nvidia's site
what nvidia really needs to do is have some awesome DirectX drivers for this stuff ... for the fullest performance . i suspect that although it'll beat 5870 CF or X2 easily , the thing to watch for is its price .
Wow very nice.I glimps at what PC games will look like after the next gen of consoles finally come around.
no , its 3,000 million or 3 billion as per nvidia's site
Yeah 30 million doesn't seem that impressive considering a super common Core2 Duo chip has 291M and the Geforce 200 series has 1,400M. Tom's "Hardware"? Go read a book about transistors...
Amazing Pics! A huge leap in rendering generations. But one thing left out is... how fast can it render those images? Sure they're ultra-photo-realistic. But that's just the rendering architecture's software to make it possible. If it takes 5 mins to render a 1080p slide in ultra-detail, when it speaks nothing about the GPU, other than that the GPU is what made the frame.
from google's chinese to english translation it is mentioned "real time rendering" on the original forum . lets hope this is true . and yes , truly amazing pics , the first i'd call photo realistic in real time rendering history .
It's beautiful...*cries*
Is that second picture really rendered? It looks real. That's... disturbing.
will it be able to run crysis 2?
more than 2x shaders than gtx285, and considering its mimd with half speed (ati is 1/5 speed in hd 5000 , gtx285 is 1/8 speed) double precision FP , this thing really has the potential for more than "just" 2 x gtx285 . i am waiting for benchmarks , but repeating myself , with mature drivers .
Let the nvidia fanboys rejoice, I'll put my 2 5870s in xfire against it any day!
you just painted yourself as the biggest fanboi here so far.
articles like this don't get much mileage as far as i am concerned. a couple screenshots of a render do not tell me a thing at all.
will it be able to run crysis 2?
definitely , and beyond that ! but lets keep our fingers crossed on one matter : they haven't announced pricing yet .
Graphics card tech demo's are bull, period. Sure it can render that by itself, but what about when there is an entire game running whith graphics of that level? I think not, Nvidia.
THIS DOES NOT PROVE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!
Unless a video proves it... a photo is a photo.. and words on a forums of pro-nvidia... this is just software to me... and yes it is nice.. any gpu can render it but how fast will it do 1 shot.. i can hardly believe that after showing a mock sample at a conference nearly a month ago, they can already have it functional now... seriously..
yes all poppycock at the moment.
Fake . Pips Labs is a FX Studio. This is rendered stuff.
http://onesize.nl/projects/playgrounds-titles-2009
http://vimeo.com/6947473
http://motionographer.com/theater/ [...] nd-titles/
If that second picture is a real render, than holy cow.
Although I'm a bit skeptical. It looks to much like a real photograph.
I find it hard to believe that these pictures are being done in real time. They look to be scenes rendered in a 3D modeling application like Lightwave or Softimage to me.
I've been playing around with 3D applications as a hobby since 3D Studio was a DOS application and looking at rendered scenes on Renderosity, RuntimeDNA, Deviantart and many other sites for years. I would love to see this kind of work in realtime, but it would take video cards that are more than usual 30% improvement, but 30x the previous generation.
darn! They forgot to program the virusses and bacteria on his face!
Soon entire movies in the future will be made by computer. No need for actors or expensive production cost.
Can you only imagine what a computer can make from your webcam video?
I mean, it's only a little step away between displaying a human face,and synchronizing it with the face in a cam recording!
Pretty soon we can't trust anything anymore!
We think we're chatting with a hot chick,and in real fact it's a long haired old geezer!
Fake . Pips Labs is a FX Studio. This is rendered stuff.http://onesize.nl/projects/playgrounds-titles-2009http://vimeo.com/6947473http://motionographer.com/theater/ [...] nd-titles/
lols.... they take some shot from the web and slaps some words claiming fermi did it... THEY'RE DAMN FAKE...
lols.... they take some shot from the web and slaps some words claiming fermi did it... THEY'RE DAMN FAKE...
lol, first the Fermi cards showed to the public were fake, and now this... WTH is going on?
Never mind if its fake or not. As people above have mentioned, GPU vendor demos mean absolutely zilch in terms of real world performance in games/video encoding. Lets see some benchmarks, then we'll talk. And EVEN if it is able to render the above at 60FPS - it is rendering a highly optimized scene which again, has zilch to do with real world performance. And furthermore, the theoretical possiblities of the GPU have zilch to do with what game studios will actually do with said power. Some may take advantage of it, but it will be at least the end of 2010 or early 2011 before its used to its full potential.
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I remember seeing renders from the Geforce 4 series that were as realistic as this. Any card can render this with the right programming, what counts is how long it took.
Damn. How'd this end up here? And why is the guy who obviously proved it's fake get his post greyed out?
Awesome. Plain and Simple.
Its too low of a resolution too tell if its even a render or not =/