Thursday, June 26th 2008
PhysX Runs On RV670, Scores 22,000 CPU Marks in 3DMark Vantage
Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com successfully modified NVIDIA CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) to operate on an ATI GPU and has been able to run the NVIDIA PhysX layer on an RV670, the Radeon HD 3850.
He tells that enabling PhysX support on Radeon cards is not particularly difficult, leading us to believe that physics on graphics cards may not so much be a technology problem but an issue of corporate dynamics.
On his first run, Eran got a 22,606 CPU score in 3D Mark Vantage, enhancing the overall score to P4262. A comparable system without PhysX-support will cross the finish line at about P3800.
Source:
NGOHQ.com
He tells that enabling PhysX support on Radeon cards is not particularly difficult, leading us to believe that physics on graphics cards may not so much be a technology problem but an issue of corporate dynamics.
On his first run, Eran got a 22,606 CPU score in 3D Mark Vantage, enhancing the overall score to P4262. A comparable system without PhysX-support will cross the finish line at about P3800.
81 Comments on PhysX Runs On RV670, Scores 22,000 CPU Marks in 3DMark Vantage
Paglams beat me to it.
Words cannot explain the awesome. :)
Edit: I want a copy before its officially illegal.
one thing is certain though, if these physx mods are moved to the 4850 and 4870, nvidia will be f*cked