UAC will release a PC card in Japan with a very catchy name, the BFGRPHYSX128P, and it will have AGEIA PhysX from BFG Technology. The technical specs are: 128MB 128-bit GDDR3, Peak Instruction Bandwidth 20 Billion Instructions/sec, Sphere-Sphere Collisions 530 Million/sec, Convex-Convex (Complex Collisions) 533,000/sec.
BFG Technologies’ Physics Cards Powered by Ageia PhysX to be Available in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea and Australia at Leading e-tail Websites May 9, 2006
Lake Forest, IL – ( May 4, 2006 )– BFG Technologies Inc., the leading U.S.-based supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards and other PC enthusiast products, announced today that the BFG physics accelerator add-in cards powered by AGEIA PhysX will be available at leading e-tail websites on May 9, 2006. The AGEIA PhysX processor is the first and only physics processor enabling a totally new class of PC gaming with dynamic motion and extreme physical interaction.
“The only way to bring the next evolution of PC gaming to the masses is by giving the masses access to the technology across the world,” said Shane Vance, executive vice president of sales at BFG Technologies, Inc. “We have worked diligently over the past few months with our strategic e-tail partners to have ready on May 9, 2006, the ability to sell one of the most anticipated PC hardware products since the dawn of 3D graphic cards. BFG PhysX cards will be widely available at premier locations around the globe.””
Backed by BFG’s innovative Lifetime Warranty and world class 24/7 technical support, the BFG PhysX Accelerator card will be a PCI bus system solution with 128-bit 128MB GDDR3 on board memory with an AGEIA PhysX chip that is capable of approximately 533,000 max collisions per second; and 22 billion instructions per second. These dedicated BFG PhysX add-in card features will lead gamers worldwide to massively destructible buildings and landscapes; explosions that cause collateral damage; lifelike characters with spectacular new weapons; realistic smoke, fog and oozing fluids. For a more detailed look at the BFG PhysX card log-on to www.bfgtech.com/physx.