FiringSquad this week reported a response from AGEIA which attempts to explain the lack of value in ATI’s solution. According to AGEIA, measuring the performance of physics processing by simply looking at the number of gigaflops in a GPU is analogous to saying that “the more wheels I have on my car, the faster I will go.”
Many people said that AGEIA needed a killer app, which is true. The same goes for ATI though, and currently they haven’t announced a single supported game. Maybe AGEIA has nothing to be scared of afterall.