PPUs - Physics Processing Units. Are you ready? (1 Viewer)

[SashatheMan]

This is what you gamers might like.

Your games are about to get a lot more interactive. Fabless semiconductor company Ageia has today announced PhysX, the world's first physics processing unit. The PhysX chip is a dedicated physics processing engine designed to coexist with the CPU and the GPU in existing desktop systems.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/08/news_6119895.html


This is a video of how the PPU can make a destruction of a building look amaginly more realistic.

http://www.gdhardware.com/files/ageia/BuildingDestruction/side_by_side.wmv


more videos
http://www.airtightgames.com/currentproject.html



and it this might effect play Stration 3
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050721_140938.html

 

[theone3]

Can you spell exaggeration?

I can

 

[insert-username]

Unless games are coded to take advantage of the new hardware, we won't be seeing too much improvment. It will only work for games using the NovodeX Physics engine anyways - other games won't have any extra effects.


I_F

 

[loquasagacious]

So in the distant future computers will have three cpu's essentially called respectively the cpu, gpu/vpu and ppu......