nVidia to release a PPU/GPU hybrid card?

[Brimstone]

According to Moghul, the Nvidia people announced that the new Unreal Tournament 2007 and Gears of War will both be using the Novodex physics engine (that’s Swiss) and not Havok.

The company also said that within the next year they will be releasing a special physics graphics card which will take over the physics calculations load from standard graphics cards. Both Unreal 07 and Gears of War will likely support this feature.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nvidia/edinburgh-nvidia-physics-only-graphics-card-117036.php

 

[Razor1]

yeah I have heard about this close to a year ago, not sure exactly when it will come out but its in the plans.

I'm pretty sure its being planed for the nv50 too.

 

[Neeyik]

What physics calculations for a game engine do graphics card do anyway? If people read the link, they will notice that the comments are from a website reader who happens to be at the Edinburgh Games Festival - therefore, it's distinctly possible that he/she misunderstood or misheard what NVIDIA were actually saying.

 

[MuFu]

Looks like a bad choice of words to me - "physics graphics card".

 

[rwolf]

What physics calculations for a game engine do graphics card do anyway? If people read the link, they will notice that the comments are from a website reader who happens to be at the Edinburgh Games Festival - therefore, it's distinctly possible that he/she misunderstood or misheard what NVIDIA were actually saying.

Yeah, those thick scotish accents can be easy to misunderstand.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Kotaku have removed their post. Seems Mark Reins helped them sort out their confusion.

Same link as above.

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[Dr Colossus]

Didn't nVidia say their next audio chip would be something unusual?