ATI teams up with Havok to launch Physics

Posted on Tuesday, June 06 2006 @ 20:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
HardOCP has some more information on ATI's take on physics:
ATI says they have the best physics processing in the world stating that their branch execution unit eliminates much overhead as compared to team Green. Also ATI says they are going to be simply faster than an Ageia PhysX card even with using a X1600 XT and that a X1900 XT should deliver 9 X the performance of an Ageia PhysX card. ATI does not see their physics technology as an offload for the CPU but rather processes a new category of features know as “effects physics.”
Read on over here.


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