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.

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Lacus Super Active Join Date: 28 Mar 2008 Location: Some gundam factory o.o Posts: 1,302 Reputation: 180 Rep Power: 4	like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/ __________________ GUNDAM 00[Intel Xeon E3110 E0 Stock\|Asus Rampage Maximus Formula (Rampage Bios Mod)\|Gigabyte HD4850 512MB GDDR3+T-Rad2\|4x2gb DDR2 1000Mhz OCZ SLI-Ready Edition\|Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB\|Creative X-FI XtremeMusic\|Creative Inspire P5800\|Silverstone Strider ST56F\|Acer X233H\|Keyboard=Microsoft Sidewinder X6\|Logitech MX518\|Lian Li PC-7YCF]

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