Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
Yeah, because everything is "cherry picked" when the outcome doesn't give you the results you were hoping for. /sarcasm.
No I said cherry picked because of what was actually written in Charlies article:
When showing off the tessellation capabilities last week, Nvidia was very careful to show the Unigine/Heaven benchmark with the dragon statue, claiming it beat the ATI 5870 by 60%. While technically true, this number is purposely misleading on two accounts. First is that this is a best case for showing off tessellation and and only tessellation. If they were to show off any of the other Heaven tests, the margins would narrow significantly.
Now - i'm no position to assess whether the lack of hardware tesselation is going to have any performance impact - but *usually* emulation takes more processing cycles than hardcoded funcions.