PhysX PPU "Physical Processing Unit"

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PhysX PPU "Physical Processing Unit"

Postby MoDyna » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:19 am

Here is another important game development. We have our CPU's, then GPU's and APU's and now we have PPU's. Here is a link to the story....

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21648


Also the Slashdot link:


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/08/1827239
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Postby Wairudo Enjin » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:31 am

Very Cool! :D

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Postby MoDyna » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:37 pm

Here is AnandTech's take on the new chip....


http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2376
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Postby MoDyna » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:33 am

Here is another article from "Tom's Hardware" on this issue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050308_214530.html

I agree that this will only take off big time if ATI and Nvidia incorporate the chips on to their boards.
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Postby Sayntfuu » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:58 am

Yeah this looks like it might be the shit. The ability to track 40,000 events at once is like 2 orders of magnitude better then we are getting now. The demo at GDC was awesome.

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