Commenting on: Demos of DirectX 11 on the new Radeon HD 5800 series
Posted by Tony DeYoung on November 03, 2009
AMD Developer Central has some new demos which show off the Radeon HD 5800 series cards and DirectX 11.
The Mecha demo shows the results of a new approach to rendering semi-transparent objects without pre-sorting, known as order-independent transparency (OIT). Blending is an order-dependent operation that requires sorting objects before rendering them. Atomic operations and append buffers make it possible to construct per-pixel fragment lists and sort them on the GPU. The results are a significant increase in speed and accuracy over those possible with traditional techniques.
The Ladybug demo…
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