The Tesselation implemented on the GF100

As we’ve mentioned before, the tesselation, together with the displacement mapping, are two essential elements in the rendering of a 3D scene that aims to be as geometrically realistic as possible. It’s also true, however, that the Tesselation also brings a downgrade in the performance. Tests have shown a sensible downgrade in the performance as soon as the Tesselation technology is activated.

nVIDIA, with the GF100 development, faced this problem with the Tesselation and its implementation: Tesselation represents an important and essential step towards game developing and applications, and as such, Fermi must be capable of fully supporting it.