ATI has for the last couple of weeks been propagating for its physics acceleration technology that will be available through today’s Radeon X1x00 graphics cards. During Computex it had serveral demo systems running different forms of physics acceleration with the help of ATI’s own graphics cards instead of an external physics processor, such as AGEIA PhysX. ATI said, not surprsingly, that its solution would be the optimal such and this made AGEIA react and send out a short list of the limitations of ATI’s physics acceleration to the media.
At the bottom of the list it said that there were no games announced sporting ATI Physics, less any games actually available and the fact is that PhysX is also available today. ATI could’ve answered by releasing a driver that activated its physic technology, but it seems it is not quite that easy.
It has instead said, during a conference, that consumer versions of ATI Physics will not appear on the market for another 9-12 months. ATI’s VP Dave Norton said that the technology is still going through testing and preparations before a final launch, contrary to what it has said before.
