ASUS Unveils World's First Add-In Card with PhysX Processing Unit

Incorporating Laws of Physics to Make Games Look and Feel Just Like the Real Thing

Taipei, Taiwan; May 9, 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 homepage at www.asus.com [1] .

• Specification

Processor Type
AGEIA TM PhysX TM

Bus Techonology
32-bit PCI 3.0 Interface

Memory Interface
128-bit GDDR3 memory architecture

Memory Capacity
128MB

Memory Bandwidth
12Gbytes/sec.

Effective Memory Data Rate
733MHz

Peak Instruction Bandwidth
20 Billion Instructions/sec

Sphere-Sphere collision/sec
530 Million max

Convex-Convex(Complex)
collisions/sec.
533,000 max

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http://www.pcsol.com.au/2ProdDetailSB.asp?code=10305558 [2]

http://www.shopbot.com.au/default.asp?kw=PhysX&position=search [3]

so what do we all think about this card?????