Associates received informative commentaries from NVIDIA representative . Maykl Jara (Michael Hara),company Vice President with connections of investors, in the interview was explained, that the possibilities of "physics accelerating" will placed into products of GeForce family and next generations. No special "physical card" NVIDIA has prepared.
German associates interpreted this statement in such way , that this was hint to the chip G80. in principle prepared for the announcement, for accelerating physics using Havok FX engine and any special features from video chip of the chosen type "physical blocks" . Otherwise, ATI has not declared about the support of this platform with old video card of series Radeon X1600. however, the architecture of chips series Radeon X1xxx can had some advantages over the architecture of GeForce 7xxx series in the sphere of "physical" calculations. Possibly, NVIDIA will remove this delay in video chip of series G8x. simply on them the solution of class SLI Physics will work more effectively.
Much more interesting to hear from NVIDIA Vice President about the prospect of the unified shader architecture. It was considered Until now that chip G80 will not passe to the unified shader architecture. Only on the past week appeared some contradicting fact . According to Mr. Jara, the unified shader architecture considerably facilitated the task of physics acceleration. Processors with four core also help NVIDIA video card in this question, according to the Vice President of company.
It is completely possible that the introduction of the unified shader architecture on video card NVIDIA will start in the first half of the following year. Specifically, this architectural special feature is the guarantee of the effectiveness with the physics acceleration using NVIDIA video chip . We hope that soon situation will be explained.