Prediction - PS3-PS4 and X360-XOne last big performance spec leap

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Pemalite said:

Well. It has it's Pro's and Con's like all things.

Real shadow mapping is unbelievably scary as hell ... (Could be perspective/projective aliasing, erroneous self shadow/acne and includes peter panning as well.) 

Pemalite said:

https://youtu.be/la0O0SyM3gg?t=7m16s
 


http://renderingpipeline.com/2012/03/partially-resident-textures/
http://renderingpipeline.com/2012/03/partially-resident-textures-amd_sparse_texture/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_6

That's megatexturing (also known as virtual texturing), not partially resident textures ... 

Game developers don't like partially resident textures because they have no way of updating the tile mappings from the GPU ... (afaik only Intel Gen 9 has that hardware feature and it's not exposed in any APIs so far)

Pemalite said:

AMD has hardware support for it AFAIK. 

Yeah but it still sucks since no way to update tile mappings from GPU, have to do it on CPU which will stall the game ...