ASUS AGEIA PhysX Hardware Tested

jmke · 5th May 2006, 10:24

We're still a little skeptical about how much the PhysX card is actually doing that couldn't be done on a CPU -- especially a dual core CPU. Hopefully this isn't the first "physics decellerator", rather like the first S3 Virge 3D chip was more of a step sideways for 3D than a true enhancement. The promise of high quality physics acceleration is still there, but we can't say for certain at this point how much faster a PhysX card really makes things - after all, we've only seen one shipping title, and it may simply be a matter of making better optimizations to the PhysX code. With E3 on the horizon and more games coming out "real soon now", rest assured that we will have continuing coverage of AGEIA and the PhysX PPU.

jmke · 5th May 2006, 10:28

that GRAW movie with PhysX doesn't quite impress me...

5th May 2006, 10:24	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,024	ASUS AGEIA PhysX Hardware Tested We're still a little skeptical about how much the PhysX card is actually doing that couldn't be done on a CPU -- especially a dual core CPU. Hopefully this isn't the first "physics decellerator", rather like the first S3 Virge 3D chip was more of a step sideways for 3D than a true enhancement. The promise of high quality physics acceleration is still there, but we can't say for certain at this point how much faster a PhysX card really makes things - after all, we've only seen one shipping title, and it may simply be a matter of making better optimizations to the PhysX code. With E3 on the horizon and more games coming out "real soon now", rest assured that we will have continuing coverage of AGEIA and the PhysX PPU. __________________

5th May 2006, 10:28	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,024	that GRAW movie with PhysX doesn't quite impress me... __________________

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