NVIDIA has purposefully de-optimized its PhysX realtime physics engine when it is run on the CPU, according to research carried out by Real World Tech. The article goes on to claim that NVIDIA ...

Toss in the fact that CPU PhysX is typically single-threaded while GPU PhysX absolutely isn't, and Kanter's data suggests that NVIDIA has consciously chosen to avoid any CPU optimizations, and, in ...

If it's true that PhysX has been hobbled on x86 CPUs, then this move is part of a larger campaign to make the CPU—and Intel in specific—look weak and outdated.

The Ageia card only used between 30 to 40 percent of the CPU, taking into account that at idle at the desktop about 20 percent of the CPU is being used. Switching to the Geforce 8800GT the CPU ...

It doesn’t bode well for PhysX in CPU heavy games and as yet we have no idea how well it works in GPU heavy games.We’d expect some more digging to be done on this subject, but we don’t think ...

GB vs GeForce rtx 4090 24GB in Mafia 2 with nvidia PhysX | 2160p System: Windows 11 Ryzen 7 9800X3D msi mpg X670E carbon ram 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30 cpu Cooler - be quiet! dark rock 5 GeForce rtx 4090 ...

Mafia 2 PhysX: CPU Core Use With a clear indication we're CPU limited no matter what graphics card we used when PhysX ran on the CPU - we fired up the Radeon HD 5870 (so eliminating any possible ...

There's been plenty of hubbub surrounding the release of Ageia's dedicated PhysX "PPU" board, with Epic Games pledging extensive "Unreal Tournament 2007" support and around 20 titles in the works ...

That doesn't mean the CPU isn't a great place to do processing, but we can just take more advantage of an Nvidia GPU," Del Rizzo said. The Nintendo Wii uses an PowerPC-based "Broadway" CPU and an ...

PhysX Evolution In 2004, Ageia acquired a physics middleware company named NovodeX. Back then, what we now call PhysX was a software-only solution, similar to Havok. Ageia's next step was to build ...

Mafia 2 PhysX: Dedicated PhysX card vs no card First up is testing Mafia 2 the way it's meant to be played, as Nvidia would have it; by strapping a brand new GTX 460 768MB graphics card to a ...