ATI will get Physics if...it adopts Cuda

jmke · 8th June 2008, 19:49

In our recent talks with Roy Taylor, the VP of The Way It’s Meant To Be Played, we've learned an interesting fact: that AMD/ATI can get Physics support. All AMD needs in order to be able to support PhysX is to adopt Cuda.

ATI has its own GPGPU program, but we guess Cuda support on top of it won’t hurt them, as they would need Cuda to run PhysX on ATI-based cards. You need PhysX for games and Nvidia will make it The Way It’s Meant To Be Played, and there won’t be much that ATI will be able to do about it.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...71&Ite mid=65

8th June 2008, 21:31

Might not be a bad idea to have one software platform that runs on both nV/ATI hardware. It's as logic as having one platform for Intel and AMD hardware, in my humble opinion.

8th June 2008, 19:49	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	ATI will get Physics if...it adopts Cuda In our recent talks with Roy Taylor, the VP of The Way It’s Meant To Be Played, we've learned an interesting fact: that AMD/ATI can get Physics support. All AMD needs in order to be able to support PhysX is to adopt Cuda. ATI has its own GPGPU program, but we guess Cuda support on top of it won’t hurt them, as they would need Cuda to run PhysX on ATI-based cards. You need PhysX for games and Nvidia will make it The Way It’s Meant To Be Played, and there won’t be much that ATI will be able to do about it. http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...71&Ite mid=65 __________________

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8th June 2008, 21:31	#2
wutske Posts: n/a	Might not be a bad idea to have one software platform that runs on both nV/ATI hardware. It's as logic as having one platform for Intel and AMD hardware, in my humble opinion.