Asus PPU Card has 256mb

[FarFarAway]

Asus is ready to show us their PhysX Card...and it has 256mb Memory

Take a quick look Here

We have some nice pics

 

[JN]

*slobber*

Must get one of those to review

 

[WC Annihilus]

Ooh... May... Methinks that would make and ideal b-day present

 

[WC Annihilus]

O, and an added thing, apparantly this will be the ONLY 256mb Ageia PhysX card. As mentioned above, we'll have to wait until this is tested to see if the memory will make a difference. Also, 60 different vendors are currently working on more than 100 games that will support this card.

Link: Asus Ageia PhysX card at Inquirer

 

[FragTek]

Izzit going to work with SLI? Or will this thing enhance any video game regardless of your video card setup?

Any pricing info?

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah it'll just do the physics part of the games. But obviously it will create wsome more work for the GPU to display the pixels

 

[NoL]

The problem is the transfer of the rendered physics back from the PPU to the GPU's. Back through the mobo, back thru the chipset, re-slide through the RAM (and cpu on an amd) and push back to the GPU's.

This is going to make **** look good, but going to kill performance I think. More CPU bottlenecking.

Now we need CONROE more than ever.

 

[Raging]

noice!,i will be keeping an eye on this ppu stuff:yumyum::yumyum:

 

[Raven]

way to tired to do research now but will all be pci flavors or ?

 

[FragTek]

I would imagine so since PCI slots are usually abundant and free for use in most/some machines. I imagine we may see PCI x1 / x4 PPU's in the future though, putting to use a perfectly good slot that currently has nearly zero hardware support.

 

[Eguy]

I would imagine so since PCI slots are usually abundant and free for use in most/some machines. I imagine we may see PCI x1 / x4 PPU's in the future though, putting to use a perfectly good slot that currently has nearly zero hardware support.

Actually you can get a TV Wonder elite PCI E x4 but thats like the only one lol

 

[NickS]

Ye^^

I just realized something. Since nVidia owns Ageia AFAIK, why not introduce PhysX SLi? They use standard PCI slots, and everyone has at least two. Put two of them in and link them with a VooDoo2 style cable.

It's the perfect plan , and nobody has to upgrade mobos!

Nick

 

[NoL]

Because that offloads even more work the CPU/Ram!

 

[Raven]

I just realized something. Since nVidia owns Ageia AFAIK, why not introduce PhysX SLi? They use standard PCI slots, and everyone has at least two. Put two of them in and link them with a VooDoo2 style cable.

what says it gives a boost in speed ?

the pci slot is rather limited in speed and depending on how the motherboard is built it can have to share with both usb firewire and harddrives.

 

[FragTek]

Having a PPU is going to decrease FPS, not increase them. Your GPU's are going to now have to work harder since they will be rendering a lot more "special" effects brought on by the PPU.

 

[FarFarAway]

Yes indeed. The fragster speaks the wisdom:beerchug: :bornleet: