AMD dissed physics, Nvidia acquired AGEIA, Nvidia dissed X2

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Ahh, it's just so happening in the graphics industry right now. Not long ago, AMD downplayed the importance of physics saying that it will not be important until at least DX11.

A few days ago, NVIDIA acquired AGEIA, thus promising a momentum in physics application (whether through dedicated hardware or driver).

Intel already has Havok in it's arsenal.

Then, Nvidia made a claim that HD 3870 X2 is not the world's best performing single graphics card (ouch!) and stating that a single chip solution still offer the best performance by referencing its products eg. 8800 GTX, Ultra.

We know that at the same time, 9800 GX2 is about to be released in Q1 this year. So?

Just listen to what Jen-Hsun Huang said:

“If you want to put two GPUs on an add-in card and you deliver the absolute highest performance in the world, the enthusiast that uses that particular PC will certainly tolerate the fact that it’s a much larger solution. But if it’s not the highest performance solution in the world, as in the case of the X2, then it’s just really problematic. You know, there’s no market really for a product that’s larger, louder, and not as high performance. So, I think that GeForce 8800 GTX is still absolutely the best DX10 and highest graphics performance GPU in the world.”

Uhh, that's just sharp. Hehehehe.

Anyway, he did actually make a remark about Nvidia's own dual chip solution. View X-Bit Labs for full text.

There are no 'good' manners in the corporate world.

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