We've learned that ATI will go for Physics, but it’s not that surprising after all. You might remember the ATI brick demo that they did a few tradeshows back, which was supposed to discourage the Ageia guys and their hardware chips.

At the time, ATI claimed that its new Shader model 4 card with R600, as the first one, can do better physics than PhysX chip.

Well, if Nvidia can run Physics on CUDA, so can ATI with the GPU, but both companies still need to do some work on this rather complicated piece of software.

Nvidia will definitely be the first one with this PhysX on GPU driver and ATI will follow at some point. The big advantage that ATI has is that the company can also support Intel’s Havoc and play on both courts.