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    News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Also you will be able to buy a version of the PS4 APU for your PC build.
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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Glad to see TressFX is 'open', or at least not unnecessarily tied down to one brand.

    The APU is a really interesting move, but there's a few things I'd now like to know.
    First, the PS4 gets to use a load of GDDR5 memory; GGDR5 memory has higher latency than desktop, and I wonder if they're planning to use it in some way, possibly at the expense of CPU performance in some apps, or use DDR3 on such a massive IGP? The standard APUs will likely use 1 DDR3 channel. Maybe it's just marketing speak referring to what they were going to release anyway i.e. Kabini?

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    I really appreciate the fact that AMD makes their technologies run on NVidia's GPUs as well. I hope NV takes the cue and they start to work together to make it better for us "the consumers" and not see us as "the wallets"

    The tech also looks very impressive, can't wait to see it in game.

    As for the PS4 chip.. that's very interesting, we'll see how it performs

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Nice! Hair movements is not boring to see now.

    tressfx banner looks like an shampoo ad.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    who'da thunk it, that sexy hair would be the big spectacle in GFX for a new gen of consoles? Although PC users get the shiny for about 9 months before the speculated release day ...Yay! Now just need to get a new GPU :\

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Playing 'Alice: Madness Returns', the PhysX engine in that makes her hair all lovely and realistic already.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Oh my - 'in-game hair' is what I've been searching for all these years! The 3 R's - "Render. Rinse. Repeat" in the banner and the final sentence - LMAO.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Interestingly, the best hair i've seen in a game previously is with an NVIDIA PhysX library

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Just because it will work on Nvidia, doesnt mean it will be any good!

    Im gunna bet that performance on the green team cards will be dreadful!

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Good on AMD for making an open format version of something nvidia tried to lock to there hardware.

    Just based on business ethics AMD gets my money.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    This will definitely be a win with RPGs. Wish there were some jRPGs to play on the PC, but then again the PS4 APU may have an equivalent version but do I really want to buy a PS4 when it's out? Not really..

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Wow not only are they making Tressfx open to everyone but also a version of the ps4's APU? Awesome business practice. I was pretty neutral before but I think I am now in favor of AMD.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    It's NWN's jiggle technology all over again

    Using non-propriatory standards is a good thing in my book, but I've been saying that and applauding AMD for that for a while

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    We could build our own PS4s!

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Quote Originally Posted by Percy1983 View Post
    We could build our own PS4s!
    Just about, but then high spec console hardware isn't usually a great deal different from PC hardware, it's mainly the software stack/access to the hardware for programs.

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    Re: News - Tired of unrealistic hair? Then use AMD TressFX.

    Alright so they can do good human hair. Would it work well on a wookie?

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