Unigine Heaven 2.0 RC1

[Mydog]

He CAN play Crysis /jk

Impressive scores Mydog!

And I can play Metro 2033

Thanks Lightman

[trinibwoy]

Haha, yeah dude only the best aye? Respect.

[mejobloggs]

One thing I wish they'd changed is the cobblestones. Every time I look at them my ankles cringe

Ah but if they had flat, able-to-walk-on cobblestones then that wouldn't show the power of tessellation would it :p

[Mungri]

Great point, so why are we all using the extreme setting again????

Theres a clue in the name of this website - www.xtremesystems.org :p

Games dont matter here when you can get higher points in a benchmark with an extreme setting ^^

Just like no one is going to be gaming on a LN2 cooled CPU at 5.5 Ghz, but they can do it just because its Xtreme.

[96redformula]

Theres a clue in the name of this website - www.xtremesystems.org :p

I just knew somebody was going to say that, so I set you up for that one

[STEvil]

Tesselation works on 4850 with opengl mode

So it's using 4-series fixed-mode tesselator

Any way to tell what mode is being used on specific cards or are we relying on what the engine programmer is telling us?

[Musho]

Any way to tell what mode is being used on specific cards or are we relying on what the engine programmer is telling us?

Haven't tested this myself, but the difference between no tessellation and tessellation enabled is huge. If they are reporting they are seeing tessellation, they probably are.

[Gaul]

here, tesselation ON ( EXTREME )

[annihilat0r]

Let's count the polygons. I'm starting

[japamd]

Unigine Heaven 2.0 FINAL

Tesselation Normal vs Extreme
1920x1200 - AA 0x - AF 1x

[Pekalion]

Gaul, now the same image but with normal tessalation please! Thanks a lot guys for sharing those numbers. Hell, if I buy a 5970 and get those min FPS, for sure I will ask my granny to make me a chocalate cake to end with the frustration, too much money for ridiculous slow minimal fps.

Its kind of insane, so much difference between minimal and max fps, also with extreme and normal.

[annihilat0r]

@japamd: So this means that the min FPS numbers were indeed momentary drops probably due to HDD usage, and are not to be taken seriously.

[Mungri]

Hell, if I buy a 5970 and get those min FPS, for sure I will ask my granny to make me a chocalate cake to end with the frustration, too much money for ridiculous slow minimal fps.

Exactly why I am now even happier with a pair of super clocking V1 5770s .

I were actually thinking of trying to sell them at an inflated price and getting 5850s, but the price difference seriously isnt worth the performance difference in DX11, and DX9 / 10 games are fast enough at 1920x1200.

How do you make that FPS graph btw? I want to make one for comparison.

[Gaul]

Gaul, now the same image but with normal tessalation please! Thanks a lot guys for sharing those numbers. Hell, if I buy a 5970 and get those min FPS, for sure I will ask my granny to make me a chocalate cake to end with the frustration, too much money for ridiculous slow minimal fps.

Its kind of insane, so much difference between minimal and max fps, also with extreme and normal.

well AS u WISH.....


TESSELATION OFF






TESSELATION ON ( extreme )

[takamishanoku]

That's terrific news for 5870 owners with the fps bump (40% wow). Looks like the card which was initially a beast is now even more of a beast as time goes on..

[Gaul]

TESSELATION ON ( extreme )

on this shoot, can fermi touch 30 FPS ?? 5870 def only 6 FPS
well see later

[japamd]

@japamd: So this means that the min FPS numbers were indeed momentary drops probably due to HDD usage, and are not to be taken seriously.

I think it was just an issue with RC version, with the final version I got 20.3/15.1 min fps in normal/extreme tesselation mode.

Tesselation Normal


Tesselation Extreme

[Andypro1]

Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS:
21.7
Scores:
547
Min FPS:
3.2
Max FPS:
58.3
Hardware
Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz
CPU flags:
2400MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 HTT
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO 8.16.11.9107 256Mb
Settings
Render:
direct3d9
Mode:
640x400 windowed
Shaders: low
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy: disabled
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: disabled
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010

[Pekalion]

Thanks Gaul! That is one of an epic shoot... Well, this weekend is the waiting over, we will see if Fermi can handle this Rev better than Ati at min fps, hope so or we are really furk up all of us, at least with this Dx11 gen card, maybe future gen can handle tessalation better.

If the GTX480 can get at least 25FPS at min FPS, we are good to go, if not, then, oh granny, chocolate cake please! Woha, what the hell are those mountains in my stomach? :O

[STEvil]

Haven't tested this myself, but the difference between no tessellation and tessellation enabled is huge. If they are reporting they are seeing tessellation, they probably are.

I mean in reference to tesselation mode used: Fixed (4870/4890), other, DX11 (57/58/59 series)?

on this shoot, can fermi touch 30 FPS ?? 5870 def only 6 FPS
well see later

Wireframe is killing the fps iirc.

[zerazax]

Thanks Gaul! That is one of an epic shoot... Well, this weekend is the waiting over, we will see if Fermi can handle this Rev better than Ati at min fps, hope so or we are really furk up all of us, at least with this Dx11 gen card, maybe future gen can handle tessalation better.

If the GTX480 can get at least 25FPS at min FPS, we are good to go, if not, then, oh granny, chocolate cake please! Woha, what the hell are those mountains in my stomach? :O

Hopefully people are using the final version, since the RC seems to be causing min FPS to be in the 6-10 fps range, and final is higher

[hurleybird]

Eh, even with the RC version this version seems a lot smoother than 1.0 Min FPS must be for a very short amount of the benchmark's running time.

[netkas]

it's tesselated(opengl/dx10.1 hw)

btw, can anyone with dx11 hw show tesselation settings (click on tesselation button on top) with moderate tesselation?

[=[PULSAR]=]

Just tried doing a run with 295 quad sli, and no support? Just ran on one core.

[fellix_bg]

If you go into the heaven 2.0 directory, you will find heaven.zip. If you unpack that, you can see all the mesh files. If you have the free SDK, you will find optimized code that looks for specific hardware before defaulting to a secondary engine.

It doesn't name what it is looking for, but it looks for a specific hardware string, and when it is not found, it just falls back to the old render.

More here!