yet another bit of hardware us gammings will need?

Sounds like quite a gimmick, which we really don't need too much of at the moment as we've got dual-core systems more commonly now, so games developers should concentrate on those, in my opinion, as only a small amount of people are going to go out and actually buy these cards.

I think if we had a card that had all of it integrated, even say into the graphics card, that would be good, but that's 2 PCI slots used up with a physics card and an AI card, what next? Animation card?
 
I seem to remember someone <cough> saying "what next, cards specifically designed for AI" to which someone replied.. "dont give them ideas"..

They are watching Davey.. always..
 
i think it shows why PC gaming will always be the leading hardware.
sure it costs us more and more money and perpetual upgrading and so on etc
advancement in tech is always ongoing and can only benefit in the long run
all for it myself
 
I think the problem is that it's hard to see a big gain from such hardware until there is sufficient, well established, real world games to take advantage of them, and prove it in the form of benchmarks (which will be even harder for AI cards than physics cards).

Far and away the biggest factor affecting gaming performance right now is GPU power (that's not to say cpu power doesn't have an effect, mind). So even if we had AI cards boosting performance in cpu limited cases (very low resolution), the kind of people who are likely to splash out on such cards are likely rich people who will be playing in high (gpu-limited) resolutions anyway.

It will be interesting to see if they price these cards competitively or not, the biggest problem with PhysX cards was/is that they have a price tag matching that of upper-midrange graphics cards, yet improve performance by hardly anything.
 
DaveyD said:
I think if we had a card that had all of it integrated, even say into the graphics card, that would be good, but that's 2 PCI slots used up with a physics card and an AI card, what next? Animation card?
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Don't forget that motherboards are taking more and more things onboard now, so effectively we've freed up some pci slots by not requiring to have things like network, modem, sound etc in them (although some will still choose to have addon cards there).

Physics cards were something I always felt could have been incorporated into gaming sound cards, it would have encouraged people to move away from onboard sound and give a healthy boost to that segment of the market. I'd consider paying >£100 for a decent X-Fi with built in PhysX, but certainly not just for the physics card.
 
The problem with this, as has been pointed out, is that people want to see actual performance increases from this kind of thing. People don't want to go spending £100+ on something that might give a 5fps boost, IF the developer supports the card. Imho, gimmick until integrated in mobos/gpus.
 
Graphics card manufacters will pick up the slack on dedicated chips like AI/Physics etc and incorporate them onto their cards if demand becomes significant enough.....thats my prediction anyway.
 
Ozzie Dave said:
Graphics card manufacters will pick up the slack on dedicated chips like AI/Physics etc and incorporate them onto their cards if demand becomes significant enough.....thats my prediction anyway.
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Agreed!

Stu
 
Fridge_Raider said:
The problem with this, as has been pointed out, is that people want to see actual performance increases from this kind of thing. People don't want to go spending £100+ on something that might give a 5fps boost, IF the developer supports the card. Imho, gimmick until integrated in mobos/gpus.
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Are you the Fridge Raider I knew from GenX? :eek:


(Sorry for OT)
 
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