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18 MAY 2006 |
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ASUS Unveils World’s First Add-In Card with PhysX
Processing Unit |
Sydney, Australia; May 18, 2006
– ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), a leading provider of graphics
solutions, today introduced the PhysX P1 card, which adopted Ageia’s™
all-new PhysX™ Processing Unit (PPU) to take gamers to a completely
new level of video realism. Currently, only two companies have the
capability to develop PPU cards, and ASUS is one of the pioneers.
ASUS will begin distributing this exciting new product this month.
In a gaming system, the CPU (Central Processing
Unit) drives game AI and logic, while the GPU (Graphics Processing
Unit) delivers beautiful three-dimensional visual representation.
The PPU takes gaming to the next level with never-seen-before
dynamic motion and interaction.
By bringing the laws of physics into video
performance, systems with the PhysX P1 card can now offer enhanced
realism for explosions, flying debris, liquid flows, water splashes
and movements influenced by wind. No two motions will be the same,
which means no more canned animations and predetermined interaction.
“The PhysX P1 card is first to leverage the PhysX
core that optimized specifically for dynamic large-scale, physics
processing,” said Kent Chien, Director of ASUS graphics and
multimedia business. “This new video technology accelerates
real-time physical motion and interaction at a scale far beyond
those of CPUs and GPUs.”
With the list of growing PhysX accelerated games
poised to hit the stores this year, players need to equip themselves
with the most advanced graphics technology to experience gaming
realism that not only looks real but acts and feels real as well.
The PhysX P1 card is now available worldwide. For
more information, please visit the ASUS Australia
homepage at
www.asus.com.au
Specifications:
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Processor Type |
AGEIA TM PhysXTM |
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Bus Technology |
32-bit PCI 3.0 Interface |
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Memory Interface |
128-bit GDDR3 memory architecture |
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Memory Capacity |
128MB |
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Memory Bandwidth |
12Gbytes/sec. |
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Effective Memory Data Rate |
733MHz |
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Peak Instruction Bandwidth |
20 Billion Instructions/sec |
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Sphere-Sphere collision/sec |
530 Million max |
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Convex-Convex (Complex) collisions/sec. |
533,000 max |
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About ASUS
Ranks in Business Week InfoTech 100 for the 8th straight year, ASUSTeK
Computer Inc. (TSE:2357) is a leading provider of 3C total solutions.
Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards,
optical drives, information appliances, desktop PCs, servers, wireless
solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. With strong engineering
capability, ASUSTeK won 1706 awards in 2005, translating to more than 4
awards per day. The company is the perennial leader of the motherboard
and graphics card industries and a top 4 maker globally for notebooks. |
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