é giro ver estes assuntos estando de fora...
Uns puxam para que caia o preco.. Outros com o rumor da compra da AMD puxam para cima...
cumpsAll GeForce 8 Cards to Gain PhysX Engine Support Says NVIDIA
Video card giant NVIDIA, which completed the acquisition of AGEIA Technologies the day before, is now starting to port AGEIA's PhysX engine software to run on its GeForce 8 cards, according to The Tech Report. During a financial call, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hseun Huang revealed that the ported engine will bring enhanced physics capabilities to all of the company's existing GeForce 8 cards.
We're working toward the physics-engine-to-CUDA port as we speak. And we intend to throw a lot of resources at it. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if it helps our GPU sales even in advance of [the port's completion]. The reason is, [it's] just gonna be a software download. Every single GPU that is CUDA-enabled will be able to run the physics engine when it comes... Every one of our GeForce 8-series GPUs runs CUDA.
Huang also added that the integration shall encourage people to spend more on graphics processing hardware, and maybe start to buy two or three graphics cards, where one of them will work for physics only.
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In NVIDIA's Q4'07 financial results conference call, it was revealed by their CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, that they are already busy porting PhysX to using the CUDA interface and will be available as a free software update for GeForce 8 owners. CUDA is the Compute Unified Device Architecture, which is NVIDIA's API for general purpose computing on their latest graphics processors -- both consumer and workstation ASICs. CUDA has been supported under Linux from the start with their graphics driver now bundling the CUDA driver and version 1.1 of the CUDA Toolkit being supported under Fedora 7, RHEL 3/4/5, SLED 10, OpenSuSE 10, and Ubuntu 7.04 (binary downloads).
Once NVIDIA completes porting AGEIA's physics engine to run atop CUDA, this will hopefully mean the support of hardware-accelerated GPU physics under Linux seeing as CUDA is well supported under this free software platform. CUDA will function under Linux with any GeForce 8 GPU, but for best results the GPU shouldn't be associated with an X screen. If the GPU is driving an X display, CUDA execution time is limited to less than five seconds per process.
This is good news for the GeForce 8 owners (and especially those using multi-GPU configurations), but whether NVIDIA will produce a Linux driver for the AGEIA PhysX PPU PCI-based cards still isn't known. Once we hear anything else we'll be sure to pass it along, with hopes of PhysX GPU acceleration under Linux not being so far out into the future. Our friends at The Tech Report have published the PhysX GPU comments that were made by Jen-Hsun Huang.
Mas então perdem frames... :| a não ser que o facto dos GPU's serem bem melhores que os x86 para calculos de fisica, que a perda de performance seja tangencial, se assim for é uma mais valia impressionante.
Esperemos que isso funcione bem com uma 8600GT
Tas optimista acho que vai depender muito do "load" colocado no GPU, e como a adaptação do motor de fisica para correr no GPU ficar.
A lista tem os jogos do PC + Xbox + PS3, logo isso que tas a dizer esta errado pq a PS3 ou a Xbox360 não possuem hardware da Ageia la dentro. É tudo feito no CPU Cell ou no triple-core da Xbox, logo a lista contem o suporte dos jogos com aceleração da placa da Ageia + sem aceleração da placa Ageia.
Tem o mesmo suporte que a Ageia tem nas consolas, isto é, é tudo feito no Cell ou no triple-core da Xbox360.
Os processadores hoje em dia são tão poderosos que podem ser aproveitados para as fisicas e é isso mesmo que faz a aceleração da Havock. Usa o CPU para fazer as fisicas dai ter um suporte muitissimo maior que a Ageia que inicialmente obrigava a hardware dedicado embora agora ja permita que seja feito no CPU da máquina.
Como assim drivers novos da Nvidia?
Acho que já passou da hora sebem que neste momento são quase inuteis ou já h´aplicaçoes que tiram partido disso?
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Como assim drivers novos da Nvidia?
Acho que já passou da hora sebem que neste momento são quase inuteis ou já h´aplicaçoes que tiram partido disso?
Interesting news from over at Tomshardware a new nVidia driver release WHQL signed is set to release August 5th. Lets check it out:
Santa Clara (CA) - After demonstrating beta drivers featuring GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament III (GeForce GTX and 9800 boards), Nvidia is getting ready to release the official Windows driver.
This driver will support PhysX acceleration on all capable GeForce 8, 9 and GTX cards, while carrying Microsoft’s WHQL certificate. More importantly, the new ForceWare driver is expanding PhysX support to all currently available PhysX titles on the market, including Ghost Recon 2: Advanced Warfighter, Warmonger and Cell Factor: Revolution.
We expect that downloads of free games such as Warmonger and Cell Factor will actually spike once again in August, since now those games will be playable on a variety of cards.
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