Nvidia confirms PhysX hardware dies

apoppin

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Did i miss this somewhere else?
:Q

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....view&id=6157&Itemid=65

The physics card as a hardware device will die. Nvidia spokespersons were very precise about that as they said that the current PhysX cards will be the first and the last of their kind.

Nvidia will implement PhysX instructions into CUDA and the GeForce GPU should take over the physics hardware role.

If you have a PhysX card, you can definitely be sure that that it will be the last one to launch. Ageia becomes just another brand that Nvidia swallowed ...

short and not so sweet if you have one :p
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: nerp
And who didn't see this coming?

well confirmed is in the title

Would you have preferred?:

Nvidia *confirms* PhysX hardware dies
*Confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!* .. Just as WE suspected!!

i am trying to tone it down
-but i guess i could edit it for you if you like. :p

rose.gif
 
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I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

actually .. i wasn't going to say anything .. my deepest condolences .. your's is the first and very last of it's breed

rose.gif

R.I.P.

now that a moment of silence and respect has passed ... the reality:

Nvidia will implement PhysX instructions into CUDA and the GeForce GPU should take over the physics hardware role.

nvidia's GPU will take care of it and you can now free up a slot and toss it.
-it's called 'progress' :p


:D
 

BFG10K

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I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.
How? Unless the game is written to take advantage of a PhysX card it?ll do squat.
 

Aberforth

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Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

Yes, nobody hates it once they've purchased something, they usually continue to support it until they buy a more powerful one. Like for example- a G80 owner now calls his FX 5200 as crap. Thats what people are doing for PhysX cards because that they've got multi-core processors.
 
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For those people wondering... it helps. Congratulations to all 8800 nVidia series owners and nVidia. It will improve (the/your) gaming experience, by how much i don't know. I don't want to start a debate, neither am i trying to bait anyone, but it does deserve a mention for people wondering.

Cheers and good luck everyone :)

 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
For those people wondering... it helps. Congratulations to all 8800 nVidia series owners and nVidia. It will improve (the/your) gaming experience, by how much i don't know. I don't want to start a debate, neither am i trying to bait anyone, but it does deserve a mention for people wondering.

Cheers and good luck everyone :)

it helps "what"?
:confused:

make you feel better?

if you don't know by how much, why are you congratulating them?
 

sandorski

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Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
For those people wondering... it helps. Congratulations to all 8800 nVidia series owners and nVidia. It will improve (the/your) gaming experience, by how much i don't know. I don't want to start a debate, neither am i trying to bait anyone, but it does deserve a mention for people wondering.

Cheers and good luck everyone :)

it helps "what"?
:confused:

make you feel better?

if you don't know by how much, why are you congratulating them?

Channels airflow to improve Overclocks on Video Card!!
 

legoman666

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wasn't a good idea anyway. Quad cores provide plenty of power for games.

EDIT: on second thought, it was a good idea, it just came too late. If they had been around several years ago before dual cores/quad cores, it might've been useful.
 

taltamir

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you know, this just means that instead of a physics card, you get a second video card... and the two of them do graphics and physics. Overall your 1 GPU + 1 PPU will still give a performance boost in games, just not as much as 2 GPUs that support physicx.
 

aka1nas

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Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

You're deluded. It's physically impossible for the PPU to offload any processing unless the game uses the PhysX API.
 

taltamir

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Originally posted by: aka1nas
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

You're deluded. It's physically impossible for the PPU to offload any processing unless the game uses the PhysX API.

QFT
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
For those people wondering... it helps. Congratulations to all 8800 nVidia series owners and nVidia. It will improve (the/your) gaming experience, by how much i don't know. I don't want to start a debate, neither am i trying to bait anyone, but it does deserve a mention for people wondering.

Cheers and good luck everyone :)

it helps "what"?
:confused:

make you feel better?

if you don't know by how much, why are you congratulating them?

Channels airflow to improve Overclocks on Video Card!!

<chuckles>

As noted by others, PhysX cards can only help on games coded for them.

 

Sable

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Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

actually .. i wasn't going to say anything .. my deepest condolences .. your's is the first and very last of it's breed

rose.gif

R.I.P.

now that a moment of silence and respect has passed ... the reality:

Nvidia will implement PhysX instructions into CUDA and the GeForce GPU should take over the physics hardware role.

nvidia's GPU will take care of it and you can now free up a slot and toss it.
-it's called 'progress' :p


:D
So if your graphics card is now doing all that magical PhysX physics what's going to be doing all the GRAPHICS CALCULATIONS? Oh right, we need another graphics card. :smackshead:
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: Sable
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

actually .. i wasn't going to say anything .. my deepest condolences .. your's is the first and very last of it's breed

rose.gif

R.I.P.

now that a moment of silence and respect has passed ... the reality:

Nvidia will implement PhysX instructions into CUDA and the GeForce GPU should take over the physics hardware role.

nvidia's GPU will take care of it and you can now free up a slot and toss it.
-it's called 'progress' :p


:D
So if your graphics card is now doing all that magical PhysX physics what's going to be doing all the GRAPHICS CALCULATIONS? Oh right, we need another graphics card. :smackshead:

i *don't* know about nvidia GPUs but i DO know that ATi stated that the "extra" cycles" - unused currently - will take care of the Physics calculations AND the "OMFG Graphics CALCULATIONS" with no hit on GFX :p

so, with AMD cards you will also be able to evidently use your OLD and "extra" video card for physics calculations ...
.. of course, with NVIDIA you may just want to buy another identical expensive and NEW one for TriSli :p
 

bfdd

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Maybe nvidia will buy Bigfoot Networks next?

That'd be pretty cool actually to have an onboard NIC like that ;P
 

bfdd

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Originally posted by: bfdd
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Maybe nvidia will buy Bigfoot Networks next?

That'd be pretty cool actually to have an onboard NIC like that ;P

Also, I think Intel buying HaVoK will do more for games than GPU's having PhsyX code onboard.
 

Sable

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Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: Sable
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I love my PhysX card - for certain systems it helps. i've seen improvements in no particular order, COD4, UT3, DODS, COD2, & Red Orchestra. I know what you are gonna say, '...those games weren't programmed for it...' ... in my case, it helps, period.

actually .. i wasn't going to say anything .. my deepest condolences .. your's is the first and very last of it's breed

rose.gif

R.I.P.

now that a moment of silence and respect has passed ... the reality:

Nvidia will implement PhysX instructions into CUDA and the GeForce GPU should take over the physics hardware role.

nvidia's GPU will take care of it and you can now free up a slot and toss it.
-it's called 'progress' :p


:D
So if your graphics card is now doing all that magical PhysX physics what's going to be doing all the GRAPHICS CALCULATIONS? Oh right, we need another graphics card. :smackshead:

i *don't* know about nvidia GPUs but i DO know that ATi stated that the "extra" cycles" - unused currently - will take care of the Physics calculations AND the "OMFG Graphics CALCULATIONS" with no hit on GFX :p

so, with AMD cards you will also be able to evidently use your OLD and "extra" video card for physics calculations ...
.. of course, with NVIDIA you may just want to buy another identical expensive and NEW one for TriSli :p

Call me a cynical Susan but I very much doubt "spare cycles" are gonna be able to handle game physics.
 

PingSpike

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Spare cycles thing sounds like crap. If we're assuming they have sort of smart system that does physics processing when the isn't heavily loaded I think that ignores that heavy physics calculation scenes and heavy graphic calculation scences are generally going occur often at the same time.
 

aka1nas

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Originally posted by: bfdd
Originally posted by: bfdd
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Maybe nvidia will buy Bigfoot Networks next?

That'd be pretty cool actually to have an onboard NIC like that ;P

Also, I think Intel buying HaVoK will do more for games than GPU's having PhsyX code onboard.

Intel buying Havok was mostly to kill off it's GPU-based Physics products. I somehow don't think that Ageia was Nvidia's first choice for acquisition. :p