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
Anyways, this is what I waiting for. Im gonna get a 4850 cause PhysX was the only thing I wanted that the 9800GTX had..
My real point of curioisity, though, if AMD enables some form of physics processing on their GPUs - how much would that affect performance on their cards? I mean, it seems that nVidia's latest hardware is kinda designed around being able to extend this capability without interfering with video rendering, but I don't think ATI's GPUs are - I mean, they're supposedly still superb for doing that kind of work, but I'm not sure the GPU would be able to render video at the same time :confused:
yesterday I write that...: forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=856989#post856989
so if is true the physics can be run on/by non-nvidia(ageia) cards. :D
Well... well... sadly, the HD 4800 family won't be supported, because AMD thinks NGOHQ.com is not worthy enough to borrow review samples (definitely a bad idea). Anyway, expect to see some cool demo video in several days-weeks. Rememebr, it takes a lot of time and work to make CUDA compatible enough with Radeon to get it to fully work without any issues.
and you are stupid ... this will NEVER works ...
Regards,
jtleon
I mean, who on this forum who has a 38XX card and knows about this mod ISN'T GOING TO USE IT.
WHO
exactly,
"If we use PhysX, only NV and Ageia card users can enjoy our games, while ATI users won't".
It's all over the news that ATI is heading towards a 40% market share soon. Developers will take note of that, and choose Havoc over PhysX since everyone can use it, doesn't require you to download and install a "Havoc driver", it comes with the game, anyone with a half decent (as in > P4 3.20 GHz / A64 3200+) can enjoy Havoc.