AGIEA PhysX has now officially been launched and we have already seen PC builders Dell and Alienware (now a subsidiary to Dell) added AGIEA’s PPU expansion card to its assortment. PhysX has been appearing among the news at many occasions here at NordicHardware the last year or so since the first time we reported about AGEIA’s plans. Simply an expansion card with a dedicated processor for handling the very demanding physical simulations that are available/can be added in PC games. Everything from realistic collisions to deformations and movement patterns in cloths. The whole environment becomes more believeable and realistic with more details and above all correct physics, but it requires a lot or power, something neither the processor nor the video card can do.
Enter AGEIA and its PPU accelerator PhysX that has been deisgned with the sole purpose of handling physics. The first versions of the PhysX expansion card use the PCI interface and brings the following.
AGEIA will most likely display more technology demos and games that support PhysX this week at GDC in San Jose, but already a few previews of the card has been published.
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