PHYSX released today

Rincewind · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:38

ok, so the physx processor was released today, just a shame there's no games for it yet... looks like it could be good, ghost recon: aw looks good. anyones thoughts?

Slime101 · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:48

The what?

Energize · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:51

Never heard of it.

Explicit · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:52

Energize said:
Never heard of it.

http://www.ageia.com/products/physx.html

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17552669

Explicit · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:57

Also some side-by-side comparison footage:

http://physx.ageia.com/footage.html

Street · 22 Mar 2006 at 19:04

Should be a useful addition when games fully make use of it

Bit pointless at the moment though...

Combat squirrel · 22 Mar 2006 at 19:14

Street said:
Should be a useful addition when games fully make use of it

Bit pointless at the moment though...

true true, looks shwwwweeet though, makes ya want 1 !

wonder if oblivion will have physX software and support it ?

goreblast · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:54

When will itbe available retail?

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:57

May apparently

Xionic · 22 Mar 2006 at 23:06

price?. its $250 dollars to add it to a pre built system. so are we looking at £100-150 retail?

EDIT: according to the official site... [size=+1]£170
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Skilty · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:40

This might be really obvious but, the Physx processor will remove the overhead of calculating smoke etc and also shrapnel but the GPU is still going to need to process all that extra information and render it.

Isn't this just going to move the bottleneck back to the graphics card?

Also all the cards announced are currently PCI and not PCIe...

oxygene · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:46

this will take all the overhead off processor and graphics for any physics. this is as big as adding standalone graphics cards from onboard ones.

Skilty · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:54

oxygene said:
this will take all the overhead off processor and graphics for any physics. this is as big as adding standalone graphics cards from onboard ones.

I was always under the impression that the CPU calculated the physics and movement and the GPU rendered the scene. From what I have seen of the demos the PPU will allow more objects to be present on the screen as the CPU does not have to worry about them, my question is won't the GPU load increase because there is actually more to render and shade with each scene because the PPU can handle more objects...

Otacon · 23 Mar 2006 at 10:05

Explicit said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17552669