Nvidia PhysX runs on AMD Radeon 3870, scores 22,000 CPU marks in Vantage

Nvidia PhysX runs on AMD Radeon 3870, scores 22,000 CPU marks in Vantage

Jerusalem (Israel) – This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com told us that he has done it already and was able to get the Nvidia PhysX layer to run on ATI Radeon cards.

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-38137-135.html

 

Radeon PhysX Creator: 'NVIDIA Offered To Help Us', 'Expected More From AMD'

http://www.techpowerup.com/64787/Ra...ered_To_Help_Us__Expected_More_From_AMD_.html

http://www.ngohq.com/news/14254-physx-gpu-acceleration-radeon-update.html

 

Whats the actual use for this??? Better 3Dmark score???

CPU has enough power to count AI and physic.

 

In UT3 with PhysX mode GPU PhysX helps quite a bit.

 

But, can it be cause bad coding for CPU ?

 

No, it's just that CPU becomes the bottleneck and in that case it is faster to run both physics and graphics on GPU. It is possible to sacrifice some graphics processing power to physics processing since UT3 runs so well.

 

Modern CPUs are not as well suited for this type of computational task. That includes even Quad core CPUs.