ASUS Add-In Card With PhysX Processing Unit
EFY News Network
(Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:03:49 PM)


The card incorporates the laws of physics to make games look and feel just like the real thing.

Thursday, June 29, 2006: New Delhi: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), a provider of graphics solutions, has introduced the PhysX P1 card, which has adopted Ageia’s PhysX Processing Unit (PPU) to add video realism to gaming. The company claims to be one of the only two companies that have the capability to develop PPU cards.
Apart from the Ageia PhysX processor, the PhysX P1 card features 32-bit PCI 3.0 interface bus technology; 128-bit GDDR3 memory architecture memory interface; 128MB memory; 12Gbytes/sec memory bandwidth; and 733MHz effective memory data rate. It offer peak instruction bandwidth of 20 billion instructions/sec; up to 530 million sphere-sphere collisions/sec; and up to 533,000 convex-convex (complex) collisions/sec.

In a gaming system, the CPU drives game AI and logic, while the GPU delivers beautiful three-dimensional visual representation. The PPU takes gaming to the next level with never-seen-before dynamic motion and interaction.

By bringing the laws of physics into video performance, systems with the PhysX P1 card can now offer enhanced realism for explosions, flying debris, liquid flows, water splashes and movements influenced by wind. No two motions will be the same, which means no more canned animations and predetermined interaction.

“The PhysX P1 card is first to leverage the PhysX core that optimised specifically for dynamic large-scale, physics processing,” says Kent Chien, director of ASUS graphics and multimedia business. “This new video technology accelerates real-time physical motion and interaction at a scale far beyond those of CPUs and GPUs,” he added.

According to Amit Jaokar, technical promotion manager, ASUS India, “ PPU would change the entire tradition of PC gaming as it has created a new category of its as a unique PC component dedicated to bring realism in games.”

ASUS is planning to start distributing the product this month.