Yesterday the 2.0 release of the Unigine Heaven tech demo was released for Microsoft Windows users. This Windows release was greeted finally by the OpenGL Linux release of this impressive demo too. While we had published benchmarks and screenshots of the Unigine Heaven Linux release, this was based off of an internal build that we had received from Unigine Corp back in December — long before the 2.0 release came about with its optimizations, updated engine, and new artwork. Due to this, we have now published a new set of Unigine Heaven performance numbers for Linux from a selection of ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards along with many new screenshots.

As we also shared yesterday, while the Linux release was held up by bugs in the ATI Catalyst Linux driver in regards to its OpenGL tessellation support, the Linux release yesterday goes with the tessellation mode disabled. Unigine is hoping to update the Heaven 2.x series soon with proper OpenGL tessellation support for both ATI/AMD and NVIDIA, once the GeForce 400 “Fermi” graphics cards are released on the NV side that support the hardware tessellation and once they implement the new OpenGL 3.3/4.0 specifications.(…)

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