NVIDIA Announces Physics Processor

tweakmonkey · 03-20-2006, 06:29 PM

This is great news for gamers!

Quote:

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 20 -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA - News), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, and Havok, the game industry's leading supplier of cross- platform middleware, will be demonstrating a physics effects solution that runs completely on a graphics processing unit (GPU) -- an industry first -- at this year's Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Jose, California (March 21st through 24th).

The result of an ongoing engineering collaboration between Havok and NVIDIA, this new software product from Havok -- called Havok FX(TM) -- enables the simulation of dramatically-detailed physical phenomena in PC games, when powered by GPUs such as NVIDIA GeForce®7 or 6 Series GPUs and further amplified with NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology. The Havok FX product is currently in early release to select developers and is expected to be available this summer.

<a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060320/sfm088.html>Read the rest of the press release here</a>.

Bear · 03-20-2006, 07:01 PM

Alienware is releasing the AGEIA physics card very soon - http://www.ageia.com/

Cr@cKpiPe tE@sEr noOb! · 03-20-2006, 10:08 PM

^I told you there were physics cards coming out and you told me i was crazy.

ShabazKillaX · 03-21-2006, 08:14 AM

Personally I would rather have a discrete physics chip, either on the video card or as a seperate card, rather than having my GPU pull double duty. Overall though I think it's promising that people are finally coming around to the concept of 'accelerated physics.'

ivanolo · 03-21-2006, 09:41 AM

I believe I read AGEIA's cards were going to sell for, like, $250. Fuck that! They need to make them inexpensive so that everybody goes out and buys one. nVidia's idea is much better, but I also share ShabazKillaX's concerns about the GPU doing extra work....
On a somewhat related note, this surprised me. Are we going back to the days of the 486?

And a completely random comment... ShabazKillaX, I chuckle everytime I read your sig!

Bear · 03-22-2006, 10:57 AM

Weeeeee!

http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/ageia_physx.aspx

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