Re:GPUs are a dying breed
by far33d on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @12:28PM
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Oh please. It's not about pixel resolution. It's about the amount of realism in each pixel. Pixar and FX houses render frames at the same 1080p resolutions - but they do them at over 2-10 hours PER FRAME. The GPU is getting better, but the artistic and realistic quality of images will probably always be in front of the technology.
You could make this same, lame argument about CPUs, but we've always used those limits too.
Re:GPUs are a dying breed
by eugenejen on Thursday December 20, 2007 @11:42AM
(#91521)
But GPU has nothing to do with those rendering techniques that you mentioned in Pixar case. You don't use OpenGL pipeline on a GPU card to render a Pixar movie, you did all tricks in non realtime offline rendering to make them beautiful.
You could make this same, lame argument about CPUs, but we've always used those limits too.