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AnnoyedDragon (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
PhysX hardware acceleration has no impact in games that don't apply it, even if the engine has native support for PhysX like Unreal Engine 3.
Also Nvidia bought out Ageia and are doing all PhysX support on Nvidia GPUs now, there would be no point in buying a PPU today.
simonmitchellbird (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nice vid
would a ppu help out non physx supported games? I have an 8800gt and apparently they have a built in small physx engine, but would buying one of these give me a higher frame rate hit (not just in aid with this card but with cards to come)
iDarkShoGun (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ageia physx rocket
CompsciWiz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Well DUH! Obviously, have that PPU is like having an extra processor.
sonofhendrix (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i use to have that novadex demo before they BANNED IT OFF THE WEB!
2Shye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yeah fusion is a low cost CPU with a built in GPU.. that AMD are developing.
AMD dont need to make GPUs out of x86 chips because they own ATI which is currently kicking the pants off Nvidia with its new cheap Radeon 4870.
I think AMD is likely to be the big winner out of this Nvidia PhysX vs Intc Havoc war.
AnnoyedDragon (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Strange I must be thinkings of something else then, maybe AMD fusion, could have sworn I heard of a CPU version and not a separate card.
2Shye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'd like to see a unified architecture which will take advantage of whatever spare processing you have.. so that if you have an old GPU or a few extra cores or a co processor the game (by virtue of the drivers) can run to the optimum level without the user having to pissfart around and try different graphics settings.
2Shye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No doubt Nvidia and ATI will be able to defeat anything that INTC can offer in the form of GPU acceleration... however because the Larrabee is built with native x86 instructions it can be used for other things such as Ray Tracing.. which standard GPUs cant. and more importantly it will be able to run most Software based solutions with very little recoding. (which includes the software emulator which physX offers in its SDK)
2Shye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Larrabee isnt A CPU and a GPU.. its a co-processor which will be installed via a GPU style Card to compliment the existing CPU. its basically a GPU built out of 32 CPU style cores initially.. (it will probably be very cheap when it comes out too) |
