AMD Continues Support and Development with Havok Physics

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AMD just announced that they are working with Havok on physics acceleration,

but probably not how you thought. Nope, nothing about GPUs and Havok working

together again, it seems that ship has sailed. But did you know that Havok's

APIs work with CPUs too?? All kidding aside, the article is a pretty deep

analysis of what AMD is attempting to say in their PR and a good look and

update at the current state of accelerated physics in general.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=574

 

Quote: "It's this next line that really puzzles me: "The two companies will

also investigate the use of AMD's massively parallel ATI Radeon GPUs to

manage appropriate aspects of physical world simulation in the future."

So...what they are saying is that AMD and Havok WILL look into ways that the

GPU can help with physics simulations; NOT that they already have

investigated or that they successfully found some areas that can utilize

Havok on the GPU or anything like that at all. Instead, we are supposed to

gobble up a news release that says 'we'll get to it, maybe, if it makes

sense.'"

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

Owner - PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com