

The pair will investigate the use of Radeon GPUs for physics processing






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RE: Huh?
By MonkeyPaw on 6/13/2008 7:14:57 PM , Rating: 2
There could be many reasons that this is happening. One might be because AMD/ATI have open sourced the driver code and show much good will towards using their GPUs for other things. The HD line of cards have lots of power for certain parallel code, like FAH for example. Also consider that just because company A owns company B doesn't mean the 2 agree and collaborate on everything. I know of a few situations where the above scenario holds true. Intel may own Havok because they see potential in the concept and wish to keep it going, merely to capitalize on it later. If no software makers adopt this physics engine, then Intel will never be able to take advantage of it down the road. Intel certainly wants parallelism to grow, and using ATI's balanced HD architecture should help that cause because it's free and available now. nVidia chooses to keep thier technology closer to the hip, so they get left behind, at least for the moment.


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