We already know that NVIDIA is about to release a PhysX driver for the GF 8/9/GTX 200 and it also mentioned something about making the PhysX platform open source. It would be nice to see how my GTS 8800 can act as a PPU, but I actually plan to make the jump for the Radeon HD 4870 X2 later this summer and I certainly won’t be happy if ATI doesn’t care to release some PhysX driver for the new 4800 family.

According to NGOHQ, ATI does want to include support for the PhysX platform, but AMD is somehow holding things down. ATI feels that AMD is still not being cooperative enough and it fears that the CPU maker could go ahead and strangle the PhysX adaption since AMD and Intel have Havok.

Now, prepare for a bit of a shocker, which, surprisingly enough, stands as the good news. AMD might be reticent about this PhysX deal, but guess who’s teaming up with ATI? Would you believe that NVIDIA is now helping ATI with the project and it seems they are giving ATI their blessings?!!? ATI thinks that NVIDIA is acting this way so it can take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the latest Havok threat from both AMD and Intel. Wait a second, isn’t ATI supposed to be part of AMD now?

ATI also informs that the CUDA Radeon library is almost done and everything is going as planned on this side. The thing is, ATI can easily integrate the CUDA instructions into the Radeon GPUs, but it also needs to get CUDA support on AMD’s driver level and this make take some more time.