Please sir, CUDA have some more??
The first I read about PhysX was because of dear ole’ Gordon Freeman’s crowbar - which captivated me for weeks. Then I read about it getting acquired by nVidia …
yawn.
And then I discover its physics platform was going to be patched in Geforce 8xxx series using CUDA.
Huh?
What platform allows you to add physx capabilities to a graphics card, after it is manufactured. That’s when I read about CUDA- nVidia’s GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) intitiative. By architecting the chip to have elements that can be addressed individually (by reading this, I would say those are the stream processors) and providing a C-level API for it, it throws the field wide open to morph the GPU into something absolutely customized for myriad applications.
AMD/ATI does have its initiative - If I’m not wrong, it is called Close to Metal , however I am not sure about the maturity ofits compilers vs Nvidias.