AMD Radeon HD6950/6970(Cayman) Reviews

[Lanek]

bad news bad news

lower tessellation

Not lower tesselation ... If it's what i think ... it's Adaptative tesselation, it remove the tesselation where you can not see it ( hidden face of the object ). and remove the tesselation on plane surface ( a big problem actually, tesselation badly used ( Hawx2 ) apply tesselation on plane surface ( superposition ), but you don't need to get tesselation calculated on thoses surfaces ( imagine a window, you apply tesselation on the wall around, but why do you need it on the glass of the window ?, it's a plane surface ) .... It was annonced by AMD on 6900 launchs..

edit: don't look it's available now for 5xxx users. Crash Edit: lol the option appear after reboot windows

[Lightman]

Even though available controls are a good thing, most people won't touch them. Even less with AMD not having user adjustable application profiles.

What?? Can you clarify what you mean by not having user adjustable application profiles?
Because if you mean different profiles assigned to application execs then you're very wrong ...

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Re all: 100% OpenGL tesselation improvement for Cayman - no magic there. So far driver was unable to utilize new double geometry setup found in HD69xx and was only processing up to 1tri/clock. New driver will fix that. Simple

[Lightman]

well cool never knew... Im still wondering why anyone would possibly use OpenGL for tessellation...

Linux? MacOS?