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Time to put your physics prowess to the test

Benchmark software company Futuremark today announced that PhysX accelerator creator AGEIA has joined the 3DMark Benchmark Development Program.

"Futuremark is pleased to welcome AGEIA to the 3DMark BDP. AGEIA brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in hardware acceleration of real-time physics to the BDP, and their advances in the marketplace offer great promise to the PC gaming environment" said Oliver Baltuch, Futuremark's VP of Sales and Marketing, North America. "AGEIA is fully committed to the development of fair and objective benchmarks and understands that as a result; consumers will get better performing hardware and software, and a more exciting gaming experience." 

"Using hardware to accelerate compute-intensive advanced physics is our core business. Increasing the performance of specialized physics algorithms, typically requiring tremendous amounts of mathematical and logical calculations with massive memory bandwidth is important to us and our partners," Manju Hegde, CEO of AGEIA. "AGEIA recognizes that our participation in the specification and development of Futuremark's 3DMark will help us deliver the best performing physics acceleration solutions in the PC industry."

Just a few months ago, we sat down with several AGEIA board partners to discuss the PhysX. Visit AGEIA’s site for more information about its PhysX hardware accelerators or check out Futuremark for its benchmarking software.

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Next Gen Games
By hadphild on 9/29/2006 3:49:43 AM , Rating: 1
All I need to say is when the round of Engines come out IE Valve / Unreal 3 / Doom(Quake) engines. Then thats when these cards will come in to there own. What they really need to do is get in bed with a Motherbord manufactor and get it included .

If only AMD could have purchased AGEIA as well as ATI.




RE: Next Gen Games
By ttnuagadam on 9/29/2006 4:24:19 AM , Rating: 2
amd doesnt need AGEIA for anything. ATI's VIDEO cards can hold their own in physics calculations and they were never even made to do this. if amd/ati wants to compete, theres nothing to stop them.


RE: Next Gen Games
By hughlle on 9/29/2006 5:47:49 AM , Rating: 2
anadtech has shown that if you have spare cores then there is little or no point in getting physixs card as the cores can do the job just fine.

at the issues of building it into a motherboard, the asus p5b deluxe is £150 as it is, if they go and slap a physix card into it as well can you imagine what you're talking about for the prices? i think it would be good for games to only work with aditional physics as it could add so much more to the game play. basically instead of being able to blow up buildings or walls because the acrd can handle it, make it that its nesacary to complete the objective :)


RE: Next Gen Games
By FITCamaro on 9/29/2006 7:23:18 AM , Rating: 2
True but the cost goes down as demand and shipments go up. If Agiea was selling millions of chips instead of only thousands they could sell them for far cheaper. So the added cost would be far lower.


Extra cores
By tk109 on 9/28/2006 10:11:55 PM , Rating: 2
I hope they are fair about it and let their tests run on the extra cores of the new quad cores too. So we can have some comparisons and get a real world value to consumers.

I still say they are just to late to the game now and offer to little with all these extra cores coming to the market. And with the power that they have and have planned with the new chips.




RE: Extra cores
By Assimilator87 on 9/28/2006 11:45:07 PM , Rating: 2
Ageia's physics engine is already integrated into 3DMark06 and it makes pretty decent use of multiple cores. It seems like most people think Ageia's engine only supports hardware acceleration. According to Anandtech's IDF quad core preview, Kentsfield offers about a 74% increase in performance, clock for clock, compared to Conroe in 3DMark06's CPU benchmark.


when it smells. spray cover up
By michal1980 on 9/29/06, Rating: -1
By Dijonaise on 9/29/2006 10:35:28 AM , Rating: 2
I agree with you to some degree.

We haven't seen any real-world benefits of AGEIA in games yet, so they are probably moving some attention on to the synthetic benchmarks, hoping they will justify their product and boost support and interest. This could help inspire a flow-on effect to games.

But of course everybody here knows all synthetic benchmarks have to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm sure you all know some guy at TAFE or UNI who can get unbelievable scores in 3DMark, yet their computer doesn't run well enough to play any actual games ;)


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