Nvidia Release A New Dawn Tech Demo
Written by: cham0d
Published on: Jul-23 23:29



Pixie New Dawn Tech Demo by Nvidia

Nvidia has launched 'A New Dawn' tech demo. 'A New Dawn' is an improved version of the previous tech demo by Nvidia named, 'Dawn' that was release ten years ago, in 2001

This newly released tech demo features many elements like, detail maps, 40,000 tessellated strands, physically animated, which was a real improvement to the previous version, according to Nvidia's official site.

Part of the idea behind the demo is that people will be able to benchmark their rigs, although we are uncertain about the compatibility with non Nvidia GPUs at this point. However it is still a great thing for gamers to be able to review their hardware through various means to better understand its real worl worth.

'A New Dawn' is a pixie themed tech demo. It demonstrate textures and all the other elements, that is mentioned above using the pixie and her background going along with few other objects.

As the previous 'Dawn' targeted on Nvidia FX series video cards, 'A New Dawn' targets on most of the Nvidia's GTX 600 series' video cards. You can take a look at the requirements that is needed to handle 'A New Dawn' tech demo below:

GPU: GTX 670 or 680 (GTX 670 SLI, GTX 680 SLI, or GTX 690 recommended for Ultra mode)

CPU: 2.5GHz Dual-Core or higher

System Memory: 4GB

Disk Space: 2GB

Operating System: Windows 7 or Windows Vista



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Tero
11:36 Jul-26-2012

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As I thought, this demo requires GeForce drivers and CUDA-enabled cores... :(
alt639
12:39 Jul-26-2012

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And requires a 690 to even get 30 fps on ultra mode :D
tzzsmk
13:03 Jul-26-2012

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oh ...such crafty nVidia :D:D
Tero
13:18 Jul-26-2012

Nice way to market their GPUs... ;)
alt639
13:20 Jul-26-2012

Nice way to make you think that you need Quad SLi 670's or above to get good frames.
tzzsmk
13:24 Jul-26-2012

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I agree:)
dicibel
12:20 Jul-25-2012

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I run it on my gtx 470 and i got 10fps,it's really heavy :)
Tero
14:08 Jul-25-2012

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So it seems :D
alt639
21:12 Jul-25-2012

Ya this is pretty hardcore on the system.
alt639
22:20 Jul-25-2012

No, but I think I'd only get 30 fps on ultra with it.
Tero
22:24 Jul-25-2012

You should try it, we'll see how well a high-end GPU runs it ;)
alt639
22:30 Jul-25-2012

Ok, I'll post results tomorrow or something :D
tzzsmk
09:03 Jul-26-2012

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@Tero you could try it if it is possible :)
Tero
09:33 Jul-26-2012

I doubt it'll work but I'll download it ;)
772MB :O
tzzsmk
09:48 Jul-26-2012

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I think it might work, only PhysX will be processed by cpu...
Tero
09:53 Jul-26-2012

We'll see in an hour (yeah my connection sucks) ;)
tzzsmk
10:00 Jul-26-2012

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I really hate that nasty trick called "Mb" (megaBITS),
so actual speed in "MB" (megaBYTES) is when you divide "Mb speed" by 8 :(
Tero
09:42 Jul-25-2012

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Looking good ;)
TheDemontool
07:49 Jul-25-2012

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When I saw the title of this article I thought they released a third Dawn demo. After reading this only I realized this was same one that was released a few months back :D
TheDemontool
07:52 Jul-25-2012

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I have download all the nVidia Demos that includes a female character except this and the Medusa :P and modded them ;)
CaptPanji
08:07 Jul-25-2012

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can i get link?
TheDemontool
08:15 Jul-25-2012

For what? :)
tzzsmk
08:21 Jul-25-2012

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I'm almost sure cham0d had link in that article yesterday because I got directly to that video on nVidia page...
TheDemontool
08:24 Jul-25-2012

Oh! For that. Here you go: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cool_stuff.html#!/demos
TheDemontool
08:28 Jul-25-2012

For new dawn: http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-applications/a-new-dawn
CaptPanji
11:15 Jul-25-2012

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thanks bro, your the best :D
TheDemontool
08:34 Jul-25-2012

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I see. My bad. It was released for download from yesterday :P
CaptPanji
06:36 Jul-25-2012

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the elf is really beautiful and sexy:D,
but unfortunately her ears a strange:(
daniel2350
11:58 Jul-26-2012

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waht did you expect shes an elf elfs has pointy ears
TaheRookie
20:40 Jul-24-2012

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Only downer is that it's Nvidia exclusive. Would've loved to know my card's performance on that. Good for Nvdia gamers though. Very cool. :)
tzzsmk
09:07 Jul-24-2012

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so is it benchmark tool like 3D Mark or is it a game too ?
I've never heard of "Dawn" so perhaps my mistake:)
cham0d
13:15 Jul-24-2012

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It's a benchmarking tool, not a game. ;)
tzzsmk
14:14 Jul-24-2012

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and so it can benchmark only GTX670 and better or what is it for??
cham0d
15:21 Jul-24-2012

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it can benchmark only GTX670 and better and it's meant to showcase the graphical possibilities of the Nvidia's GTX 600 Series.
tzzsmk
15:25 Jul-24-2012

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understood;
so could it be used also for 600m series?
video is awesome:)
cham0d
15:39 Jul-24-2012

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No I don't think so buddy. :( Yeah, that video is awesome :D
tzzsmk
17:04 Jul-24-2012

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I can just imagine few years later 3D movies will be "rendered" like this on average TV...
crazyivan96
02:07 Jul-24-2012

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I heard that even a gtx 680 struggles a LOT on this demo.
TheDemontool
08:36 Jul-25-2012

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GTX 670 SLI is the recommended to run this in ULTRA. So I'm not surprised that a single GTX 680 will struggle :D
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