Published: Tuesday 1st July, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
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email to a friendNVIDIA might be touting its own PhysX-enabling GeForce drivers, but Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com has been working away to hack NVIDIA's PhysX layer to run on an AMD Radeon HD 3870.
Badit claims the hack to have been an easy affair, and states he had no assistance from members of the Red team. Irrespective of how he achieved the NVIDIA-upsetting feat, what we're really interested in is numbers.
The Badit-provided screenshot below shows 3DMark Vantage results of the Radeon HD 3870 with PhysX enabled. The overall score maxes out at P4262, a reasonable jump from the P3800 scored with PhysX disabled.
Badit states that the PhysX-enabling utility will eventually be made available to the public, but adds that "it takes a lot of time and work to make CUDA compatible enough with Radeon to get it to fully work without any issues."
We'd love to see what PhysX could do to the Radeon HD 4000 series' benchmarks, but apparently AMD turned down the guys at NGOHQ when they asked for review samples.
Source: NGOHQ.com
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it takes a lot of time and work to make CUDA compatible enough with Radeon to get it to fully work without any issues.
So he's ported all of CUDA over to ATI, not just the physX stuff? I think that'll annoy nvidia even more :pQuote
So he's ported all of CUDA over to ATI, not just the physX stuff? I think that'll annoy nvidia even more :p
they've said on record that they don't mind anyone porting CUDA to ATI (since they still control the spec), but they won't spend any resources or time doing itQuote
I think i hear NVidia's Lawyers ready to raid that guy.Quote
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