Physical accelerators for $ 300

The sudden announcement with a physical accelerator AGEIA soon became famous. Compared to a first generation product, the data is incredibly convincing, the only question is how and for the most part we can get it all.

As early as the opening day of E3, ASUSTeK has announced that it has begun developing AGEIA PhysX chip-based expansion cards, so nothing can stop them from producing a finished product later this year.

Epic Games and Ubisoft were the first to indicate that they wanted to take advantage of PPU’s potential, with Unreal Engine 3 and Ubisoft’s own games already providing a fairly stable starting point for the manufacturer.

Now, however, AGEIA representatives have provided another important piece of news: the first copies of PhysX will be ready in the third major year, while mass production will begin in the last three months of the year. As for the prices, the proposed amount is between 249 and 299 US dollars, ie we can expect about 50-60 thousand forint cards.

This news can cause ambiguous feelings in everyone: although 50 thousand forints can only be paid a lot, but considering that the 0,13 micron chip is made up of 182 square millimeters and 125 million transistors, it is very close to today's high-end video controller. can become pricing.

Of course, like all novelties, at first only a few bigger games will take advantage of this, so it will definitely not be worth the first investment.