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AMD Physics: Working with Havok?

It'll be interesting with the next gen Apple machines.. especially with OpenCL.

Currently nVidia provide the GPU in the current series of machines. I would suspect that Intel will be slowly tempting Apple with their form of GPU when it comes out too..

It maybe that Apple's initial OpenCL implementation would be Cocoa (Objective-C) backs onto nVidia's CUDA.. but if it's distinctly abstract enough.. it should be easy to port to Intel's implementation too..

Currently these battles are over the games market - specifically the next console market by the sounds of it. I would expect Havok to be under great pressure to allow AMD to play along a little bit (just enough to commit effort and money) then pull the rug out from under them.

nVidia are currently *very* active in the mass processing required for visualisation and basic data analysis for medical and geo-sciences. Not forgetting super computer visualisation systems..
 
NickK said:
It'll be interesting with the next gen Apple machines.. especially with OpenCL.

Currently nVidia provide the GPU in the current series of machines. I would suspect that Intel will be slowly tempting Apple with their form of GPU when it comes out too..

It maybe that Apple's initial OpenCL implementation would be Cocoa (Objective-C) backs onto nVidia's CUDA.. but if it's distinctly abstract enough.. it should be easy to port to Intel's implementation too..

Currently these battles are over the games market - specifically the next console market by the sounds of it. I would expect Havok to be under great pressure to allow AMD to play along a little bit (just enough to commit effort and money) then pull the rug out from under them.

nVidia are currently *very* active in the mass processing required for visualisation and basic data analysis for medical and geo-sciences. Not forgetting super computer visualisation systems..
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I think apple are taking the ati route

http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=425101

though whether thats for the imac or the mac pro is anyones guess
 
Richard Beer said:
Thats one reason right now if I was to get a mac i would have to buy the 3.06ghz one or chose the 8800 option on the one below it, I hate Ati...
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sorry but how can you 'hate' a manufacturer? its just plainly weird, i mean sure you can prefer one to another but hate is too strong a word to use :confused:
 
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