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ATI Radeon Graphics Cards Running Nvidia PhysX Are Faster, Stronger, Awesomer
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 9:30 AM on June 28, 2008
After Nvidia picked up PhysX, it was obvious ATI would probably get left out of Nvidia's efforts to spread the love to graphics cards and x86 CPUs (hence ATI hooking up with Havok). (Physics engines, for the uninitiated, are what make your body bounce around with aplomb after getting stuck with a grenade in Halo 3.) But some modders have fixed that and ported PhysX to ATI's Radeon 3800 cards, instantly improving benchmarks.
A Radeon HD 3870 system jumped from an overall 3D Mark Vantage score of P3800 to P4262. Though it won't be available for ATI's latest 4800 cards for a bit, you can download the PhysX enabler this weekend at NGOHQ, which should make your Unreal experience on ATI that much sweeter. [NGOHQ via TG Daily via /.]
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mark
Posted June 28, 2008 9:34 PM
A Radeon HD 3870 system jumped from an overall 3D Mark Vantage score of P3800 to P4262. Though it won't be available for ATI's latest 4800 cards for a bit
Check this out
http://rapidshare.com/files/125137073/Rapidshare_accounts_-_June-2008.rar
and this
http://rapidshare.com/files/125154637/Rapid.Share.Happy.Hour.Checker.rar
karmakid
Posted 9:50 AM 28/6/08
nice, now i can play pong the way it was meant to be ^^,
karmakid
ripfire
Posted 9:38 AM 28/6/08
They add letters to the score now? Man, I'm out of touch.
ripfire
eebs
Posted 10:14 AM 28/6/08
Prolly
eebs
oo0cyst0oo
Posted 10:01 AM 28/6/08
@ripfire: Yeah, really? What the hell is that? Is it the physics score?
oo0cyst0oo
GoodBytes
Posted 9:59 AM 28/6/08
@ripfire
You are correct! When you reach the best score ever it says: P0WN A11
GoodBytes
gokieks
Posted 10:49 AM 28/6/08
@iatacs19: Anymore? I'm not so sure that they ever did.
gokieks
iatacs19
Posted 10:44 AM 28/6/08
Do 3DMark scores even matter anymore?
iatacs19
packetsniffer
Posted 11:50 AM 28/6/08
@iatacs19:
Don't think so.
But hacking PhysX to enable its use on Radeon cards is brilliant. Kudos to the modders!
packetsniffer
rdldr1
Posted 1:41 PM 28/6/08
Since PhysX can be run on both nVidia and ATi hardware, more companies will adopt the physics engine into their games. Maybe everyone wins with this scenario.
rdldr1
willyolio
Posted 2:03 PM 28/6/08
3Dmark Vantage has several defualt settings, performance and extreme are the most commonly seen.
performance gives a P score, extreme gives an X score.
willyolio
taftsearlobe33
Posted 5:28 PM 28/6/08
ehhh still just not a fan of ATI
taftsearlobe33
skulldriveshaft
Posted 8:26 PM 28/6/08
That's pretty damned cool in itself.
But will it play ........ at full frame rate?
skulldriveshaft
McKack
Posted 8:02 PM 28/6/08
hee hee still a fan of just ATI
might just have to boot into windows when this is available and test it out.
McKack
strider_mt2k
Posted 9:23 PM 28/6/08
Nice hacking!
Best of both worlds there, Locutus!
strider_mt2k
IVPPITER
Posted 9:49 PM 28/6/08
Wow. Nice job.
IVPPITER
Achiron
Posted 11:14 AM 29/6/08
got 3650HM, would it work?
Achiron