ATI Announces GPU-based Physics Acceleration Plans
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/06/2006 04:56 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1657 views
ATI had a demo system running a pair of Radeon X1900s in CrossFire with a third X1900 card dedicated solely to physics processing. This configuration was appropriately referred to as the "meat stack," and while it produced silky frame rates in a number of demos, it's not the only Radeon configuration that will support GPU physics. In addition to supporting three-card configs, ATI will also allow a pair of its graphics cards to split rendering and physics between them.
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upurz2 Posts: 5 Joined: 2005-09-26 |
#64773 Posted on: 06/06/2006 10:14 PM
So let me get this right. Three $500-$600 cards to play a $50-$60 dollar game? Oh and don't forget there are even Quad systems. Now throw into the mix a high end 64bit processor, plenty of fast RAM, yada, yada, and you got a $10,000.00 PC to play your $60.00 game. Me thinks the likes of ATI and nVidia are driving the nail into the coffin of PC gaming. Even a $600.00 PS3 is starting to look good. |
