Asus releases the first physics card this May

[Cheesetogo]

Isn't the pci slot going to limit these cards? I'd think they'd be using the pci-e 1x slots.

 

[imported_X]

Originally posted by: the Chase
[Thats who I think will determine whether this takes off or not and what solution(s) will be used- the game devs. If they are able to use most/all of the potential of these cards in a relatively(1-2 years?) short amount of time I think enough peeps will buy into it. Then prices will start to come down(hopefully) and most gamers will have one eventually.

If they fall way short or just don't want to deal with programming for these then....

Yep, and the game devs will also determine which physics solution most gamers gravitate toward. My prediction is that they won't want to take the risk of consumers not investing in dedicated PhysX cards, so most game devs will go the Havok/Nvidia route at least to start. Unfortunately, that means better eye candy in games, but no real improvements in gameplay until PhysX has enough footing to bait the game devs into coding for it.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: wizboy11
I'll get one....when Physics cards are mainstream (like cheap(er)) mainstream. Like 7900GT bang for your buck mainstream or Opty 165 bang for your buck mainstream.

I'll probably get one on my home computer when it's on-board and I have no choice.

 

[Artuk]

My understanding is that ASUS will be releasing an OEM part while BFG will have the only retail part in the near term.

Artuk

 

[kevinthenerd]

I wonder whether these things would be useful for Newtonian classical physics simulations for scientific research. They probably have some pretty cool vector processing functions. (Multiple data set, single instruction processing.)