EVGA has been an exceptional board partner for NVIDIA for a long time now, it does not surprise me to see them take the lead on a differentiation sku like this one.
Lets be real though. Batman is the first implementation of PhysX that does anything impressive. It is sweet, its a nice implementation of the tech, but with the promise of bullet physics, has it arrived too little, too late?
Plus, we have talked about this, people really don't want to fuss with differentiated products like this, they don't want a separate board for physics either. What gamers want is physics baked in with some sort of standard implementation that either leverages the CPU, or the power of the GPU that they already have, or can buy on either side of the fence they are on. There is a reason PCI physics processing boards did not take off. There is also a reason that PhysX has been underutilized by developers until Batman, its not because the tech isn't good, it is, its because it has not been implemented as simply and efficiently as it needed to be, and I think that is going to be remedied in the not too distant future in a way that makes this kind of card a bad long term investment.
I guess I don't find myself drooling over high-end physics that much in games. Sure it's pretty, and playing older games without good physics it jumps out at you but I don't feel like my physics need to be bleeding edge when I could be seeing better lighting, shaders and anti-aliasing.
inb4 chizow and his "omg, this proves nvidia is the best company in all of history"
Seriously though, cool idea but the price is going to sink it in terms of commercial success. Not to mention the lack of games that do anything really cool with PhysX.
Wow. All I have to say is, my mind is blown by the complete and utter uselessness of this card.
Not only can you purchase far more powerful (AMD) graphics cards for a fraction of the price, you can't even SLI the two GPUs on this card because it only works with the same GPU in nvidia tech.
Thrax
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Lets be real though. Batman is the first implementation of PhysX that does anything impressive. It is sweet, its a nice implementation of the tech, but with the promise of bullet physics, has it arrived too little, too late?
Plus, we have talked about this, people really don't want to fuss with differentiated products like this, they don't want a separate board for physics either. What gamers want is physics baked in with some sort of standard implementation that either leverages the CPU, or the power of the GPU that they already have, or can buy on either side of the fence they are on. There is a reason PCI physics processing boards did not take off. There is also a reason that PhysX has been underutilized by developers until Batman, its not because the tech isn't good, it is, its because it has not been implemented as simply and efficiently as it needed to be, and I think that is going to be remedied in the not too distant future in a way that makes this kind of card a bad long term investment.
Seriously though, cool idea but the price is going to sink it in terms of commercial success. Not to mention the lack of games that do anything really cool with PhysX.
Not only can you purchase far more powerful (AMD) graphics cards for a fraction of the price, you can't even SLI the two GPUs on this card because it only works with the same GPU in nvidia tech.
I pity anyone who buys one of these.
LOL, I second that