AMD: Xbox 720 graphics will look like Avatar

[Khuutra]

Rath said:

Khuutra said:

How many hours did it take to render an individual frame of Avatar? I thought they had thousands of computers doing this stuff in tandem.

Heaps probably. The super-computers are actually thousands of linked cores, so essentially thousands of computers doing the stuff in tandem.

We probably will hit avatar like graphics in a couple of generations. I think a good indicator is how long it took from making Toy Story to getting Toy Story like graphics in games.

This reminds me of when Sony claimed the Emotion Engine would push graphics like Toy Story 2. That still hasn't happened, not really - Witcher 2 is the closest we've got to that and it's still not there.

I'll start holding my breath when and if the PS4/720 push visuals like TS2's in real time.