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Physics Processing Units Overview
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- Definition and Purpose
- PPU is a dedicated microprocessor for physics calculations in games
- Handles rigid body dynamics, collision detection, and fluid simulation
- Offloads time-consuming tasks from CPU like GPU graphics processing
- Historical Development
- SPARTA project at Penn State and Georgia was first academic PPU research
- First dedicated PPU PhysX released by Ageia in February 2006
- PhysX was first complete PPU designed and marketed by Ageia
- Technical Specifications
- PhysX P1 featured 125 million transistors and 128 MB GDDR3 RAM
- Used 130 nm fabrication process with 30W peak power consumption
- Maximum collision tests: 530 million per second for spheres
- Competition and Alternatives
- Havok SDK competed with PhysX, used in over 150 games
- Havok FX used existing GPUs for physics calculations
- Modern GPUs better suited for physics tasks than PPUs
- PlayStation 2's VU0 could be considered early PPU implementation