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1Tech Report is reporting that AGEIA PhysX prices are starting to come down. The physics acceleration board launched at $299 earlier this year, but now some online stores are carrying cards for under 200. Additionals, several e-tailers including Newegg and ZipZoomFly will include City of Villains, Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara, and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with PhysX cards.
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Maybe a specialised PPU can do more physics calculations faster than a general-purpose CPU core, but the difference won't be significant enough to justify the cost of the PPU and the extra development time needed for game devs to support it properly.
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Saints Row seemed to show you can have good physics using a general processor. I'm sure you could do more with a dedicated physics chip but until they're standard it's probably not worth the effort for most devs.
Dell no longer include these cards in their XPS desktop systems (at least in the UK), for what that's worth as a sign.
Maybe Ageia is dropping the price due to lack of sales, but maybe they sold their 10,000 units and now can afford to lower the price to ramp up demand.
Personally I'd like to have one of these things - if for no other reason than for show. And maybe develop a killer app for it.
With the GPU companies moving to the Stream Processor Architecture, this really puts a thorn in the purpose of Aegia's Tech.
I still think this has a good chance to take off, pending the killer ap.
Physics will always perform better on a piece of hardware that was designed for physics calcs, but will it be enough of a increase compared to what a Stream Processor'd GPU can do?
I for one would like to see better collision detection, (fluids/cloth)
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