Nvidia Shows GeForce GTX 480 ''Hair'' Rendering

wow look: nVidia's first attempt at creating any bit of a hype around Fermi!

I really like cool features on a card (if this is one), but the question that burns us since Fermi was announced is:

What's the real world performance of Fermi cards today ?

Just like the Human Head demo, games will never look that good on the card, because it has to render...You know...The rest of the freaking game? Wouldn't be very interesting if it just rendered hair for a couple of hours, then the game ended.

I just wonder how much processing power it is consuming. How many characters can you have running around in a given area with their hair blowing in the wind before you bring even a high end card to its knees.

Somehow I had expected to have this level of realism a couple graphics card generations ago. I suppose I vastly underestimated the complexity of the problem and the computing power needed to solve it.

Well shoot, this changes everything. Time to mortgage the house to buy one.

Did she say "500 feps"?

The hair doesn't animate very realistically IMO. It moves like it's under water or in low gravity. It's not so bad with wind, it's when she's just moving the model that it looks wrong. Still better than static hair though, of course.

And like all cool tech demos, as impressive as it is... when playing an online game with dozens of characters and hundreds of things happenings, bullets, explosions, etc. That much hair detail won't be seen... not even in a hollywood movie.

No porn-video games... that would make more sense.

Big deal. I remember when I got my FX5700 nVidia had a demo with some pixi character walking on a tree. The demo would zoom in on her arm hair. It looked nice but that type of detail never really made it to video games. I guess because, as another poster writes, there are lots of other things to render as well.

Do u guys remember Nalu or Luna? and Fairy tech demos from nvidia back in the days of FX5xxx series and the 7xxx series .. now those were some really good looking demons back then, and they still are now .. the thing is .. not even today's game characters look remotely close to those tech demos.

Render my Gun blowing the frikin hair off your head!!! Now thats what I want in my game.. KAPOWWW!!!

There's some really good youtube videos demoing Fermi's capabilities, I like the tessellation demo showing how it handles terrain (a small rock outcrop in the ocean) and water at the same time. Check them out and see what you think. Yes the tech demos have limited in game/demo geographic extent and limited characters generally. The thing to remember is would you really expect a demo of the Urukia attacking Helms Deep using Massive technology on a Fermi card or SLI Fermi setup as a tech demo, really, come on folks, there's no money in it for them to create such a demo.

It is just a demo. Both ATI and Nvidia have some or other cool demos to show before they release their new chips to wreak havoc on our wallets, and while the demos can give us some hints on the new improved performance games are often without the "demo shine".

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I am afraid my own hair will grow longer than the simulated hair before FERMI chips will be available in any large numbers in stores.

this is kinda old.. Saw this a few weeks ago. Is nvidia do everything they can to make sure we keep fermi in our heads?

That probably runs better with ATI hardware.

But does it render curly hair ?

that is very if you have no background even a nvidia riva tnt 32 can do that..

or a diamond 3dfx voodoo 4mb..

wow nvidia make graphics card for hair salon , they are desperate

They should have mapped skin textures on the model. The model looks scary.

I liked the boxes more. LMAO

If I cared about demos, I'd have kept my Commodore 64.

I have actually played around with Cinema 4D's hair feature on my 8600 gt rig and i can tell you what they are doing is so sweet!

yawn!!!

get out of here! you're ruining the entire gdc

She's pretty cute (the girl giving the demo, not the demo 'girl') and she must be pretty smart to effectively give a demo like this. I like...

Old

I was kinda hoping to see some more box art.

thats almost sexy