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From ATI R800 Series: [19] HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 5850, HD 5870, HD 5870 X2, HD 5970* R900 Series: [20] HD 6990, HD 6970,
From
NVIDIA
HD 6950, HD 6870, HD 6850, HD 6770, HD 6750, HD 6670, HD 6570, HD 6450
GeForce 400 Series: [21] GTX 480, GTX 475, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 GeForce 500 Series: [22] GTX 590, GTX 580,
GTX 570, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 550 Ti
GPUs designed for workstations
Shader Model 2 Compliant (Includes versions 2.0, 2.0a and 2.0b)
From ATI FireGL: Z1-128, T2-128, X1-128, X2-256, X2-256t, V3100, V3200, X3-256, V5000, V5100, V7100
From NVIDIA Quadro FX: 330, 500, 600, 700, 1000, 1100, 1300, 2000, 3000
Shader Model 3.0 Compliant
From ATI FireGL: V7300, V7350
From NVIDIA Quadro FX: 350, 540, 550, 560, 1400, 1500, 3400, 3450, 3500, 4000, 4400, 4500, 4500SDI, 4500 X2, 5500, 5500SDI
From 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm: 100, 200, 500, 800
Video games and HDR rendering
With the release of the seventh generation video game consoles, and the decrease of price of capable graphics cards
such as the GeForce 6, 7, and Radeon X1000 series, HDR rendering started to become a standard feature in many
games in late 2006. Options may exist to turn the feature on or off, as it is stressful for graphics cards to process.
However, certain lighting styles may not benefit from HDR as much, for example, in games containing
predominantly dark scenery (or, likewise, predominantly bright scenery), and thus such games may not include HDR
in order to boost performance.
Game Engines that Support HDR Rendering
• Unreal Engine 3 [23]
• Source [24]
• CryEngine [25] , CryEngine 2 [26] , CryEngine 3
• Dunia Engine
• Gamebryo
• Unity (game engine)
• id Tech 5
• Lithtech
• Unigine [27]
References
[1] Simon Green and Cem Cebenoyan (2004). "High Dynamic Range Rendering (on the GeForce 6800)" (http:/ / download. nvidia. com/
developer/ presentations/ 2004/ 6800_Leagues/ 6800_Leagues_HDR. pdf) (PDF). GeForce 6 Series. nVidia. pp. 3. .
[2] Reinhard, Erik; Greg Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, Paul Debevec (August 2005). High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and
Image-Based Lighting. Westport, Connecticut: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 0125852630.
[3] Greg Ward. "High Dynamic Range Imaging" (http:/ / www. anyhere. com/ gward/ papers/ cic01. pdf). . Retrieved 18 August 2009.
[4] Eihachiro Nakamae; Kazufumi Kaneda, Takashi Okamoto, Tomoyuki Nishita (1990). "A lighting model aiming at drive simulators" (http:/ /
doi. acm. org/ 10. 1145/ 97879. 97922). Siggraph: 395. doi:10.1145/97879.97922. .
[5] Greg Spencer; Peter Shirley, Kurt Zimmerman, Donald P. Greenberg (1995). "Physically-based glare effects for digital images" (http:/ / doi.
acm. org/ 10. 1145/ 218380. 218466). Siggraph: 325. doi:10.1145/218380.218466. .
[6] Paul E. Debevec and Jitendra Malik (1997). "Recovering high dynamic range radiance maps from photographs" (http:/ / www. debevec. org/
Research/ HDR). Siggraph. .