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R.I.P Physx Hardware

I think it's going to be a great move, not only for Nvidia but for gamers too. I don't see how more and better game physics can be a bad thing?

Graphics and physics are both massively better when using parallel processing whereas a CPU uses Serial processing.

As a comparison of CPU and GPU graphics speeds look at what happens in the CPU test in 3Dmark, even high end quads struggle to render a scene that GPU's would fly through. It would be a similar difference with CPU/GPU physics.
 
Dravic said:
I think it's going to be a great move, not only for Nvidia but for gamers too. I don't see how more and better game physics can be a bad thing?

Graphics and physics are both massively better when using parallel processing whereas a CPU uses Serial processing.

As a comparison of CPU and GPU graphics speeds look at what happens in the CPU test in 3Dmark, even high end quads struggle to render a scene that GPU's would fly through. It would be a similar difference with CPU/GPU physics.
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what worries me is if amd get left behind with physx what price will those items come in at as nvidia most of the time have a higher price point than ati at the high end and if they way in front we end up like 8800/9800 15 months on ?
 
i think Skyline means integrate the PPU chip onto quadro boards
the use of that i have no idea seen as quadro's are primarily used for 3D graphic design / CAD work
 
sunlitsix said:
i think Skyline means integrate the PPU chip onto quadro boards
the use of that i have no idea seen as quadro's are primarily used for 3D graphic design / CAD work
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Would be nice if they could get fully working PPU intergrated into the Geforce cards but at the same time keep cost down and perhaps move a step forward from the PhysX card in terms of performance and compatability but I'm proberbly asking for too much :p.
 
Without reading the rest of the thread, it turned into a zzz-fest of bickering...

Is this just a topic of people gloating for an extremely lame reason?
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Without reading the rest of the thread, it turned into a zzz-fest of bickering...

Is this just a topic of people gloating for an extremely lame reason?
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? Its just another argument between PhsyX cards and CPU's and everything is not bickering and I dont think there is anything wrong with what other people and I have posted.

Get used to it.
 
willhub said:
Would be nice if they could get fully working PPU intergrated into the Geforce cards but at the same time keep cost down and perhaps move a step forward from the PhysX card in terms of performance and compatability but I'm proberbly asking for too much :p.
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i imagine it would be quite difficult to achieve, although they did have a dedicated wafer on the G80 GPUs for the CUDA physics processing
 
“the use of that i have no idea seen as quadro's are primarily used for 3D graphic design / CAD work”
The current PPU is used in 3D graphic design and CAD programs. Why wouldn’t it be useful for quadro's?
 
Well, think about it this way, in some games the 9600 GT is pretty much sitting on 8800 GT performance territory, imagine if the unused shaders on the 8800 GT were being used for physics processing - I think that's where nVidia is going with this anyway.
 
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