Computex 2006 - Video of ATI’s hardware physics in action

Posted on Wednesday, June 07 2006 @ 0:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
ATI had a system based on their upcoming RD600 chipset with Radeon X1900 Crossfire and Conroe CPU - they’re calling it “True-to-Life Gaming Reality”. ATI’s method of hardware physics is different to the AGEIA PhysX method in that ATI are able to program a GPU (such as the Radeon X1600) to handle the physics tasks, rather than having to produce a standalone physics processing card.

Check it out over at TweakTown.


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