http://www.bfgtech.com/future/ Im thinking thats gonna be a physics processor but Im not really sure. Whats everyone else think?
I also instantly thought a PPU when I saw it. Makes sense, although I haven't heard about Ageia licensing their chips recently...
Yup, I can't think of any other thing it could be. I think PPU's will need a fair length of time to "take off" though.
And I concur with your concurring. About time... TES4: Oblivion is going to support them, isn't it? Not to mention UT07. I wonder how pricing is going to work out...and whether that or a 7800GT will make me happier in the long run. I'd bet Valve has a trick up their sleeves too... PPU support with HL2 Ep1 or something, perhaps.
Don't be silly it's not that It's a USB attachment hand that slaps you when you get shot in FPS games
its going to be another pcie card with the ppu thingy on it apparently and cost nigh on £200 when released shortly this is still gossip at the minute but alot of people are thinking the same thing....PPU.
but will this realy be necesary? All I can see it doing is taking physics duties from the proc and gpu. with multicores and hyperthreading do you realy NEED the extra processing power?
This discussion happened in a thread a while ago. Have you run 3DMark recently? Remember how crunchingly slow the CPU-rendered demos were? Compare that to the graphics in the normal tests and you'll appreciate what a difference a special-purpose processing unit can do.
You can never have too much power. It's all about taking the load off of things so they can spend the time doing something else, or the same thing to a higher standard (higher resolutions, AA, etc).
CPU calculates data... GPU produces graphics and imagery PPU processes the physics so that the CPU can get on with doing something else such as loading data... I know I'm not fully correct but I hope that is at least very vaguely close to explaining how each component functions... I also agree with everyone's thoughts that BFG HAS to be talking about the PPU processor, what else could it possibly be?
Could you be anymore obvious. A Physics Processing Unit Processes Physics And a Graphics Processing Unit Processes Graphics Yayyyyy Now I wonder what Random Access Memory does?
