Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards

stress_life writes "Following controversial allegations that Nvidia is cheating in 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament 3 benchmarks, executives from Futuremark and Epic moved forward to clean any confusion. However, the game was not over — enthusiasts from Israel ported PhysX middleware to run on ATI Radeon cards, achieving remarkable performance. Owners of ATI Radeon cards will be able to play PhysX games as well, such as Ghost Recon 2 and already mentioned Unreal Tournament 3."

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Re:Probable Patent Infringement

[the_macman]

Because Money > Selfless sharing. Blame humanity.

even better

[unity100]

4870 is designed to be cheaper, less energy consuming, less heat producing and scalable.

its not as powerful as the 280, BUT, it is designed to be a little bit less powerful.

ati is going the scalability way. because it consumes less energy, costs less, takes up less space, you can get 2 4870s lower than the price of a 280, and get more power with lower energy consumption and heating. this allows you to be able to feasibly scale your graphic needs. need more power ? add a 3rd (you way surpassed 280's power with 2 btw). doing graphic design? why, add a 4th. and this is without speaking of 4870x2 cards that have 2 gpus on 1 card. want more bang ? why sure, your 4870 gpu consumes less watts per gpu power than an 280, therefore you can overclock it much more efficiently without listening to a goddamn fan blowing your brain away with its noise.

nvidia cant do that. they gone the big monolithic gpu way, doing one single, huge, powerful gpu.

it ends up requiring much more power, generating much more heat, taking up SO much space that even single one on a card and its needed stock fan takes up close to 30 cm space ... nvidia wont be able to fit 2 280 gpus in one card. neither physically a circuit board can take it, nor any pci slot can hold the weight with the added weight of the huge gpus and fan. doing a sli ? no go sir, first, you need HUGE space, second, you need a very powerful psu to support those humongous gpus. and big heat generation and accompanying fans to cool the cards comes with the package. unless you are someone that loves neverending multiple fan hissing at the dead of the night while playing your game, you will be annoyed.

there goes another battle of the graphic cards. from the looks of it, ati not only won big, but also hit it big and made a revolution of sorts - all welcome the era of small but efficient, scalable gpus and neverending modding mania.