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At the same time AMD is talking about photo realistic game graphics and showing off pretty tech demos, gamers are still waiting for a graphics card capable of running Crysis on max settings. It sounds almost funny but AMD has been pushing out a new concept lately in which they dub the "Cinema 2.0" experience. They claim that pretty soon AMD graphics cards will be pushing out graphics comparable to those in Hollywood movies. Lets take a look at a few images that AMD claims is realtime running on AMD hardware:







The first screenshot is of a capture room in which a human, animal or object is placed into the room and gets captured in realtime to be added into the rendered environment. This is new technology that will theoretically allow game developers to create life like game assets and do so relatively easy. The other images are all said to be realtime graphics that apparently can be produced on two 4870X2 graphics cards in crossfired (from what I read a couple months back). There are also some videos available:


Ruby: http://www.amd.com/u...MD_Ruby_S04.swf
Scorpion: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=NuR1wBCw_FU
Faces: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Bz7AukqqaDQ


The first two videos I have posted a couple months back but the faces one is new. That video shows off what the faces look like with animations added to them. These visuals represent a step pass the Uncanny Valley into a realm of near photo realism but considering nothing today can play Crysis on max settings and get stable framerates, one is left wondering just how far off is it before graphics cards can actually run games with graphics of this calibur. Gamers who want to play Crysis on max everything are stuck with only the option of expensive SLI setups which costs thousands of dollars.

AMD promises to revolutionize gaming graphics while at the same time both AMD and Intel are working on future configurations which fuse both graphics processors with regular computer processors. This may lead to giant leaps in graphics capabilities or it may not. The first versions of this "AMD Fussion" and "Intel's Larrabee" seems like it will offer a graphics solutions similar to what is already on the market but there is no saying what future iterations of the technology might be capable of.

None the less we are slowly entering the realm of life like visuals. I would say that the above screenshots will represent graphics capabilities of games 5-7 years from now.


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