Hi Matt,
You don't know what you're talking about.
This architecture is designed to handle a lot more than just a few rag dolls. It's designed to make the formerly static environments in game levels come alive.
So, rather than a building breaking into 10 pieces upon receiving damage and playing an animation, the building will break into 10,000 pieces, and the collisions between those rigid bodies will be simulated.
Or, the river you run over won't just be a flat texture, it will be a volumetric fluid that splashes and behaves and interacts with other objects as a fluid.
There is a reason that Epic Games has signed on with this technology. They're not too stupid in my opinion.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Will multithreading make GPU's useless? No.
This chip will have over 100 Gflops of processing power, and will handle floating point calculations in a way that a PC processor with around 10 Gflops of processing power, mostly focused on integer calculations cannot.
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The chip will be a stand alone PCI PCI Express card. It will be significantly less than $500 US.
Hi there, The chip works. It will be in stores this fall. We already have compelling content that will ship with the chip. See you at Christmas!
Hi Matt, You don't know what you're talking about. This architecture is designed to handle a lot more than just a few rag dolls. It's designed to make the formerly static environments in game levels come alive. So, rather than a building breaking into 10 pieces upon receiving damage and playing an animation, the building will break into 10,000 pieces, and the collisions between those rigid bodies will be simulated. Or, the river you run over won't just be a flat texture, it will be a volumetric fluid that splashes and behaves and interacts with other objects as a fluid. There is a reason that Epic Games has signed on with this technology. They're not too stupid in my opinion.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Will multithreading make GPU's useless? No. This chip will have over 100 Gflops of processing power, and will handle floating point calculations in a way that a PC processor with around 10 Gflops of processing power, mostly focused on integer calculations cannot.