Hot Nyhet : PPUs kommer snart!

[Malvado]

The Inquirer

 

PPU's er rettere sagt en form for prossesor som tar for seg all kalkuleringen av fysikken i et spill eller simulator.

 

Here in San Francisco's Games Developer Conference the firm revealed its chip called symbolically PhysX. It’s the world first Physics Processing Unit (PPU), they reckon. These guys have taped out the chip and made a final product and reference card design ready as we write.

 

The answer is actually an add in card with either PCI Express or a PCI interface with up to 128MB of dedicated GDDR 3 memory that will take over all physics in the games. We saw some cool demos done in software on a laptop of what this card can do. It can operate with 32000 particles/rigid bodies or should I say bones? [You should, Fudo, you should. Ed.] When we talk about fluids, such cards can handle up to 50000 rigid bones. A CPU can do a couple hundred at the most.

 

The card operates under 25W (Watts) so the company is still not sure whether it needs an external power connector or not. The chip itself has 125 million transistors and it's quite a large piece of silicon but that's no probbo for TSMC. The chip and card designs are ready, so the company only needs retailers, OEMs and notebook manufacturers to embrace the marchitecture and start releasing designs. There will be cards for notebooks to boost gaming physics on notebooks as well.

 

Edit : Ser det er starten en tråd før denne av Cat-Scan : http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=389049

Endret 8. mars 2005 av Malvado

[Geir M]

Ja, sperret øynene opp da jeg så denne http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2376&p=3

nyheten på anandtech!

Tenk om vi står foran nok en revolusjon i dataspillenes historie !

Blir veldig spennende å se hvordan fysikkmotoren vil fungere i praksiss.

 

[edit] Hvis det i hele tatt blir noe av vel og merke.

Endret 13. mars 2005 av geir_er_1337

[tørrfisk]

http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=389648&hl=ppu

[Haslum]

Vi er flinke nok til og finne nyheter sjølve. men takk..