To demonstrate the raw power of the new AMD Radeon 6900 series video cards, AMD has a new Tech Demo that, at least from the description, seems to utilize every buzzword and fancy graphics trick of 2010.
The HK-2207 real-time demo features a number of post processing effects (depth-of-field, lens flare, ghosting, aerial perspective/atmospheric, LUT, emissive and reflection) provided as an easy approach for developers and artists to adopt Microsoft® DirectX® 11 programming. This demo also uses a current trend in game engines utilizing deferred lighting and deferred shading allowing many more lights and rapid prototyping. A newly developed GPU accelerated physics particle system is introduced utilizing DX11 DirectCompute. Bullet Physics is used with a new fracture/destruction approach that also features procedurally generated unique debris leveraging DX11 tessellation.
Even though it’s from AMD, reports say that it actually runs pretty well on the NVidia Fermi cards. (35fps on GTX480’s).
