ED#95 : NVIDIA Launches PhysX!

Dashken · 20th Jun 2008, 04:56 AM

When NVIDIA bought AGEIA in February 2008, everyone wondered what the outcome would be. Well, the wait is over.

Today, NVIDIA officially launched GPU acceleration for PhysX when they released the PhysX driver version 8.06.12 which enables PhysX acceleration for the following cards...

Here's a quote from the editorial :-

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"You will need to install the latest 177.39 ForceWare driver in addition to the PhysX driver. At this moment, PhysX support has only been enabled for those four GPUs. NVIDIA will progressively enable PhysX support in the other GeForce 9 and GeForce 8 graphics over the next few weeks."

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Iria · 20th Jun 2008, 06:22 AM

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when they released the PhysX driver version 8.06.12

I don't see a link to that driver on NVIDIA's site. ?

Chai · 20th Jun 2008, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Iria

I don't see a link to that driver on NVIDIA's site. ?

According to that statement, it meant that it's going to be released soon.

Lacus · 20th Jun 2008, 02:13 PM

hmm, i wonder the PhysX is hardware based or software emulated?

Chai · 20th Jun 2008, 04:30 PM

It SHOULD be hardware based. If software, then it will still be using CPU.

Lacus · 20th Jun 2008, 06:20 PM

like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/

Chai · 20th Jun 2008, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lacus

like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/

It has to be.

Mac Daddy · 20th Jun 2008, 06:35 PM

Interesting news

g0tanks · 20th Jun 2008, 07:40 PM

Results look awesome.

So if you bought a PhysX card before it's pretty much redundant now?

DarKSeeD · 21st Jun 2008, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by g0tanks

Results look awesome.

So if you bought a PhysX card before it's pretty much redundant now?

Depends, it will be interesting to see how it performs. I still have an Ageia card from Asus and you bet I will do a lot of tests.

20th Jun 2008, 02:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
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Lacus Active Join Date: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 700 Reputation: 128 Rep Power: 2	like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/ __________________ New Rig a.k.a Celestial Being [CPU=Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 (3040Mhz) [Cooled By Xigmatek S1283 with Crossbow] \| Mobo=Abit AW9D \| GPU=Gigabyte HD4850 512MB GDDR3/Asus EAH3450 256MB DDR2 \| RAM=4x1gb DDR2 667Mhz Corsair Value \| HDD=Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB \| Soundcard=Doom's Creative X-FI XtremeMusic \| Speakers=Creative Inspire P5800 \| PSU=Silverstone Strider ST56F \| Keyboard=Creative Prodikeys DM \| Mouse=Logitech MX518\| Casing=Lian Li PC-7YCF]

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