[ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at GDC 2006

[Mohsin Hasan]

I don't believe PS3 specs mention PhysX hardware. Correct me if I'm wrong
but I think they just support the SDK through one of their own SPE or
something.

 

Also, I believe GPU physics will be good for effects only. It won't be able
to do high scale fluids/joints/collision calculations. This is where PhysX
seems to have an edge. But nonetheless even if GPUs can accelerate effect
physics, that can be a good start. It won't make much of a sense for single
GPU machines but it would just make the crossfire and SLI more worthwhile
and mainstream.

 

Mohsin 

 

 

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From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org] On Behalf Of
steve1011
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:17 PM
To: ode at q12.org
Subject: Re: [ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at GDC 2006

 

He's talking about Ageia's PhysX processor. They are releasing their
libraries to developers. The physics library will s/w emulate if the h/w
processor isn't installed. Sony PS3 dev kit includes these libraries and
supports the PhysX hardware. ASUS is the primary vendor of PCI PhysX add-on
cards. I couldn't find the pricing info this morning but I remember seeing
it would be something like $200. ASUS also intends to offer motherboards
with the PhysX processor embedded.

I believe nVidia and ATI are responding to Ageia's h/w by showing how
physics can be accelerated using GPU's.

Steve




 
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