ATi includes PhysX hardware acceleration in 9.4

londonbairn · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:22

ATi have included hardware acceleration for PhysX in 9.4 in a surprise move which will stun Nvidia. Lead driver programmer Rolf Rubens said that "inclusion of PhysX has been underway for sometime now" and that "performance of PhysX in 9.4 will match Nvidia's"

We have managed to run a top secret build here and I must say we are impressed. Nvidia really have a lot to do now to respond to this.

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eyetrip · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:23

Dunno if it is or not, but that image looks doctored to me....

Edit: Would help if I looked at source before posting!

Final8y · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:29

Happy · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:34

Nice

londonbairn · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:35

Can't wait to watch tech demoes all day, really can't

ConnectionFX · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:36

Haha

zytok · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:36

ah if only it'd have been posted on another day......

eyetrip · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:37

Oh... it's the 01/04....

Alpherah · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:40

Lol april 1st

mmj_uk · 1 Apr 2009 at 09:41

You had me for a few seconds there.

I was a bit surprised seemed like a strange move for AMD.

Sash · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:06

Lol...

bledd · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:11

you've been played son

willhub · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:12

Knew this was coming

HummuH1 · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:15

Thought we would have had a better one!

reflux · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:18

Hmmm, not even a very good edit

AntiHeroUK · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:20

That's a pretty poor shop tbh. Look at the blue highlight on PhysX closely. If you are gonna do an April fool at least do it right...

SlyReaper · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:24

Don't believe anything anyone tells you until midday.

londonbairn · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:26

AntiHeroUK said:
That's a pretty poor shop tbh. Look at the blue highlight on PhysX closely. If you are gonna do an April fool at least do it right...

Who cares? I spent a few mins on it...it's all banter :rolleyes:

Next year, why don't you spend a while on something for us yeah?

linktoinsanity · 1 Apr 2009 at 10:37

hahaha. I was wondering why Physix would be in green for ati...

Spyke_UK · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:03

lol, nice 1 rafster - got my hopes up for a moment there!

As for the neg posts on the quality, omfg, lighten up people, jeez, this guy made a few of us smile today and you bitch about the edit!