AGEIA To Join Futuremark Benchmarking Program

[dafloppyone]

[font=arial,helvetica][size=+1] http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=22391[/size][/font]announces that the PC software benchmarking company best know for its 3DMark benchmark tools will be joining up with PC game physics hardware and software company AGEIA:

Futuremark has created the 3DMark Benchmark Development Program (BDP) to build partnerships with leading PC and gaming industry stakeholders that have an interest in the development unbiased benchmark software that accurately measures the performance of next generation technology and hardware. Futuremark provides all its BDP Members with specifications and pre-production versions of its benchmarks and, in turn, evaluates the feedback provided by those members.

AGEIA develops hardware solutions that accelerate processor intensive advanced physics, enabling dynamic interaction in extremely complex immersive 3D games. Their flagship processor, the AGEIA PhysX, is the world's first dedicated hardware accelerator for advanced physics. AGEIA currently lists over sixty content partners that plan to support physics hardware acceleration in the next generation gaming platforms.

http://www.futuremark.com/companyinfo/pressroom/pressreleases/49662/

heh will that mean that you need a physics card to get decent scores in 3d mark
ageia going for the benchmarkers market????
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[Jokester]

Yeah this could well mean that 3dMark08 (or whatever the next edition will be) will have a physics element too it.

Call me a cynic, but if it does, it'll be geared up for Ageia cards more than anyother method.

Jokester

 

[Pottsey]

Hopefully it supports all 3 types of of physics support not just Ageia. CPU, Ageia and Havok.

 

[ins0mn1ac]

Hopefully it will have abit of freedom to it but I can see the physics side of it being forced

 

[dafloppyone]

lol as soon as ageia is mentioned your there in a flash pottesy......and you say your not an employee LOL

 

[Pottsey]

“lol as soon as ageia is mentioned your there in a flash pottesy......and you say your not an employee LOL“
I also do the same for every PowerVR thread and get accursed of working for them. You know it’s nice to bring it two full time pay checks and work for two companies on different sides of the planet.

The real reason I post in most threads is I get bored at work during dinner and overclockers forums along with 3dmark and Eve online are about the only webpage not filtered out. That and I find PPU interesting.

 

[locutus12]

AGEIA = hehe hehehe AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Malteesers...