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NVidia Will Support PhysX for AMD/ATI Radeon?

By linathael - 09/07/2008 11:44:42 CEST - Category: Video - Source: TGdaily
Couple of weeks ago, we reported about AMD joining Intel's project Havok, leaving NVidia alone with its physic engine PhysX. Half a month ago, a guy from Israel, Eran Badit editor-in-chief of NGOHQ.com, claimed making progress in getting NVidia’s CUDA platform and PhysX to run on AMD/ATI Radeon cards. Such news was rapidly denied and even some IT news websites were stamping it as a hoax. However, Eran Badit now confirms that he is receiving support from NVidia to get PhysX to run on AMD/ATI cards, this includes access to documentation, SDKs and hands on help.
It seems that such change in NVidia's decision might be driven by the requirement to push CUDA and its GPU accelerated physics using PhysX, in order to give most users and developers access to this technology in order to face Intel's and AMD's Havok project. This is probably the only way for NVidia to allow the adoption of CUDA and PhysX as a new standard before Havok is fully launched and receives the usual massive support from Intel's engineers.
Nevertheless, this news could bring PhysX-support for ATI Radeon 2900, 3800 and 4800 series of graphics cards in addition to NVidia's recent models, enlarging the pool of potential users. More importantly, as the support will be integrated in ATI drivers, it will most likely push developers to enable PhysX in their games or application as most owners of a recent graphic card from NVidia or AMD/ATI will be able to benefit from it. Let's see how this story will develop, as Intel will most certainly react.
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