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> > Dear Customer,
> >
> > Your service request : SR #{ticketno:[8200286939]} hasbeen reviewed and
> > updated.
> >
> > Response and Service Request History:
> >
> > Currently the HD5890 is the best card available. The GTX400 series are
> the
> > next release from the competition and should compare fairly close to the
> > HD5K series with the 480 comparing well to the HD5890. There is no way to
>
> > confirm this until benchmarks are released and this will not happen until
>
> > the cards are physically available. AMD (ATI) and Nvidia have comparable
> > series of cards with whichever company hasjust released the newest card
> > usually taking the fastest honours. This has been the way the releases
> have
> > gone for several years and will continue, probably as long as both
> companies
> > produce video cards.
> >
> > Physx is supported on Nvidia cardsand Intel cards, both of these
> companies
> > purchased, one each, the companies developing the Physx platforms and use
>
> > this technology to enhance game play on their video card platforms. Physx
>
> > was originally for all video cards but this is no longer the case.
> > Installing the Nvidia Physx software on systems with Radeon cards seems
> to
> > eliminate any problems with the games that look for this software to run
> at
> > the present time.
> >
> > AMD supports the Physx like support through our Stream Technology and
> > OpenCL support with the Radeon chipsets and DirectX 11 hardware
> compliance
> > introduced on HD5K series cards.
> >

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> You will install Physx, it installs with most current games, but you will
> not use Physx to accelerate anything, this would require an Nvidia card.
> The Radeon card will use Stream processing and OpenCL support to do what
> Physx does on an Nvidia card.