New realistic AMD graphics?

I'd guess that this scorpion demo thing is going to ship along with RV770 cards (I assume they're specifically talking about the 4850 here). The article is just...a little weird.
 
Good article , that scorpion did look real. Maybe were starting to see the comeback of AMD and ATI.
 
That thing looked very real; I'd say it's beyond uncanny valley.

The real test of course will be people, but the article is way too short and I was hoping for more. If AMD showed this off at a press release, and with the Fight Club director guy, I'd imagine we'd have heard more by now, but I haven't found any other news on it from the usual sources (H, TR, etc.)
 
Real-time graphics are still far from photo-realistic. This is all just PR fluff. Even if the 48xx series had enough power for it, there's still no game engines today that provides photorrealistic effects/textures.
 
But the true question lays within that article. Would you rather have 'OMG that looks real' graphics or ' OMG I get 5000 fps' with less than real graphics.
 
Rendering photorealisticly on at 4800 wouldn't just be choppy - it'd be worse than a slideshow.
 
Those were supposedly rendered in real time with a Phenom 9850, 790FX mobo, and 2 x 4870's in CrossFire

Don't know how applicable it is but you've got to admit, damn that thing looks realistic

(The scorpion movie was made by the director of Fight Club, and the Ruby demo was supposedly helped by Valve hence the robot that kinda looks like Dog... maybe HL3 hints ;) )
 
CptFalcon said:
Sources please.
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http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33925670

I guess I stand corrected.

Jules Urbach. Founder and CEo Jules World LLC / OTOY.

Three years ago, he noted that GPUs were getting powerful enough to achieve the effects we see in the cinema. The convergence came with the Transformers movie, where they were able to render in real time using the R600 architecture. They followed it up with rendering the Spiderman elements in real time.

Making people 'look right' is the next frontier, and not that far down the line.
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