AGEIA antwortet auf ATIs Physikbeschleunigung

Die Kollegen von FiringSquad haben AGEIA in Bezug auf ATIs Umsetzung von physikalischen Berechnungen durch die GPU kontaktiert. Vizepräsident Michael Steeles Antwort kam prompt:

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• The performance claims appear to be based solely on gigaflops of the Radeon chips and an assumption of PhysX gigaflops, but that is not a meaningful way to measure physics performance. That’s like suggesting that the more wheels I have on my car, the faster I will go. Physics requires much more than raw gigaflops.
• [...]Why would you sacrifice graphics performance for questionable physics? You’ll be hard pressed to find game developers who don’t want to use all the graphics power they can get, thus leaving very little for anything else in that chip.
• [...]There are games shipping for PhysX today and more than 20 announced for 2006. In addition, over 65 developers of more than 100 games are deep in development for PhysX. No specific games are announced even in development mode for ATI.

Die komplette Antwort ist hier. Und nicht nur bei AGEIA wird dieser Ansatz kritisch betrachtet - auch in diesem CNet News Blog steht man dieser Lösung skeptisch gegenüber.

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