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ATI Introduces Boundless Gaming
Techtree News Staff, Jun 08, 2006 1427 hrs ISTATI Technologies is introducing its "boundless gaming" experience that promises to loosen ties that bind gamers to their physical realities.
ATI Technologies is introducing its "boundless gaming" experience that promises to loosen ties that bind gamers to their physical realities, by immersing gamers in a simulation more complete than anything they've ever witnessed before.
ATI says the "boundless gaming" experience is created by combining the rendering horsepower of two of its graphics cards, along with a third graphics card devoted to modeling the environment. This asymmetric CrossFire configuration fuses together, the best looking and highest performing graphics available with physics performance. When added to the Intel Core 2 Duo platform, it introduces boundless gaming to the world on the highest performing PC platform ever conceived.
According to ATI, traditional PC games face two principal constraints: they are sometimes CPU-bound or limited by how much the processor can handle; and at other times they are GPU-bound or limited by the amount of information the graphics cards can process. The same limitations impact how well games can imitate reality.
However, ATI's CrossFire X1900 multi-GPU solution in combination with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, effectively addresses both the CPU- and GPU-bound scenarios, producing superior image quality and performance in games, as also delivering realistic physics, in sum - offering what ATI calls - a boundless gaming experience.
The company says ATI physics enables developers to deliver true-to-life representations of games, thanks to the Radeon X1K GPUs' parallel processing architecture.
The Radeon X1900 XTX is touted as one of the highest performing physics processors today, and delivers a whopping 360 Gflops of processing power. In effect, gamers will be able to enjoy scenes with 20,000 to 30,000 distinct objects that can now be accurately simulated and rendered at real-time frame rates.
With CrossFire, ATI claims to offer gamers a choice of physics configurations rather than being constrained by symmetrical set-ups. The open architecture accommodates all gamers, whether high-end graphics card users for physics, or mainstream card users.
In a related development, ATI has announced working with Havok, the leading middleware provider for the gaming industry. Havok's FX would allow developers to create more convincing environments, including more detailed explosions, smoke, debris, fluids, the works.
David O'Meara, chief executive officer, Havok, said, "By unleashing Havok FX on ATI GPUs, we are opening the door for some of the most compelling game experiences ever seen. Imagine explosions so realistic that thousands of pieces of shrapnel blanket the area, dealing damage to characters and objects nearby."
Further, ATI is ramping-up the CrossFire certification program, making it easier for gamers to recognize what products are CrossFire-ready.
Godfrey Cheng, marketing director - platform technologies, ATI Technologies, said, "The addition of physics to the CrossFire platform, and the continuing evolution of CrossFire is based directly on the feedback of hardcore gamers - CrossFire is not ATI s platform, it's the gamers platform."
ATI says the "boundless gaming" experience is created by combining the rendering horsepower of two of its graphics cards, along with a third graphics card devoted to modeling the environment. This asymmetric CrossFire configuration fuses together, the best looking and highest performing graphics available with physics performance. When added to the Intel Core 2 Duo platform, it introduces boundless gaming to the world on the highest performing PC platform ever conceived.
According to ATI, traditional PC games face two principal constraints: they are sometimes CPU-bound or limited by how much the processor can handle; and at other times they are GPU-bound or limited by the amount of information the graphics cards can process. The same limitations impact how well games can imitate reality.
However, ATI's CrossFire X1900 multi-GPU solution in combination with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, effectively addresses both the CPU- and GPU-bound scenarios, producing superior image quality and performance in games, as also delivering realistic physics, in sum - offering what ATI calls - a boundless gaming experience.
The company says ATI physics enables developers to deliver true-to-life representations of games, thanks to the Radeon X1K GPUs' parallel processing architecture.
The Radeon X1900 XTX is touted as one of the highest performing physics processors today, and delivers a whopping 360 Gflops of processing power. In effect, gamers will be able to enjoy scenes with 20,000 to 30,000 distinct objects that can now be accurately simulated and rendered at real-time frame rates.
With CrossFire, ATI claims to offer gamers a choice of physics configurations rather than being constrained by symmetrical set-ups. The open architecture accommodates all gamers, whether high-end graphics card users for physics, or mainstream card users.
In a related development, ATI has announced working with Havok, the leading middleware provider for the gaming industry. Havok's FX would allow developers to create more convincing environments, including more detailed explosions, smoke, debris, fluids, the works.
David O'Meara, chief executive officer, Havok, said, "By unleashing Havok FX on ATI GPUs, we are opening the door for some of the most compelling game experiences ever seen. Imagine explosions so realistic that thousands of pieces of shrapnel blanket the area, dealing damage to characters and objects nearby."
Further, ATI is ramping-up the CrossFire certification program, making it easier for gamers to recognize what products are CrossFire-ready.
Godfrey Cheng, marketing director - platform technologies, ATI Technologies, said, "The addition of physics to the CrossFire platform, and the continuing evolution of CrossFire is based directly on the feedback of hardcore gamers - CrossFire is not ATI s platform, it's the gamers platform."
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