Nvidia Supports ATI Radeon PhysX Efforts

[duzcizgi]

Good move from AMD/ATi. Has the HavoK, and has PhysX for free. Official support goes to HavoK and doesn't stop an enthusiast to take the trouble of adding CUDA & PhysX support. Can't be better for AMD/ATi
Has foothold on both competing realtime physics technologies without the fuss.

 

[gm0n3y]

Maybe Nvidia is realizing that AMD/TI is not the real threat (just healthy competition), Intel is the one to worry about in the long term.

 

[nukemaster]

Unexpected!

 

[nukemaster]

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]Im not trying to flamebait here, but I wonder how AMD would respond if it was the other way around?[/citation]
Its not like AMD did not license there AMD64(x64) tech to Intel(and not like intel did not license X86 to AMD in the first place). Maybe Nvidia plans to license it to ATI after they get hooked.

 

[justjc]

This has nothing to do with PhysX, PhysX is just the bait.
It's all about CUDA and making it the industry standard, for making GPGPU programs, before other programming languages, that nVidia won't control, will have a chance to make a real impact. The first competitor is OpenCL and soon DX11, with it's compute shaders, will arrive.

 

[duzcizgi]

[citation][nom]justjc[/nom]This has nothing to do with PhysX, PhysX is just the bait.It's all about CUDA and making it the industry standard, for making GPGPU programs, before other programming languages, that nVidia won't control, will have a chance to make a real impact. The first competitor is OpenCL and soon DX11, with it's compute shaders, will arrive.[/citation]
Ehm. Agree.
In fact, still, the winner here is AMD/ATi. They're squeezed between nVidia and intel on both sides, and they have promising, yet still short of perfect products on both sides. So, without the costs induced, they have support for all the competing standards at least at GPGPU side. I'm just waiting for their move to connect the GPU and CPU with HT bus. Then, it'll get real fun!

 

[brisingamen]

anyone who tries mafia 2 or metro 2033 with physx maxed will say PHYSX is awesome, cant wait for it to be part of every game standard.