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Buddy J
14 Feb 2008, 10:10pm
PhysX will be ported to CUDA (http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147).
Sledgehammer70
15 Feb 2008, 3:20am
Sweet news... I will be happy to get a free physX upgrade on my GPU's :)
Thrax
15 Feb 2008, 12:49pm
That's... Pretty ****ing incredibly awesome.
GHoosdum
15 Feb 2008, 1:34pm
Does that include my 8600 GT or were they just referring to the 8 series GPUs that were not simply 7's with an incrementing counter?
Zuntar
15 Feb 2008, 2:35pm
Nice!
Harudath
15 Feb 2008, 5:01pm
Awesome! :D
UPSLynx
25 Feb 2008, 3:14am
This sounds great. I'm pumped about getting free phys-x functionality on my 8800gtx. However, I'm not to thrilled about this idea:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147

Specifically, this part:

" It might—and probably will—encourage people to buy a second GPU for their SLI (http://techreport.com/articles.x/7671) slot. And for the highest-end gamer, it will encourage them to buy three GPUs. Potentially two for graphics and one for physics, or one for graphics and two for physics."

I, along with many of you, are that highest-end gamer. I want nothing to do with 3 top tier GPU's. Roughly $1300 for my graphics solution? No thanks, no matter what the gains. I just hope they REALLY don't push for this mantra with GPUs in the future. I can see it now, hardware requirements that ask for an extra GPU for physics processing. An idea like that could really hurt the enthusiast markets.
RWB
25 Feb 2008, 4:08am
I forgot what I put in my brothers desktop but it's an 8 series card of some sort. So that is cool news to me, don't mind buying a second card to help out for a nice budget system.
mas0n
25 Feb 2008, 4:50am
I'd rather offload physics to a dedicated CPU core, but I guess this is a step in the right direction. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to quickly choose where I want physics processed depending on the game and create profiles, etc...
Harudath
25 Feb 2008, 8:44am
Sounds like a good idea to me, at least we have a choice now. If you've got a Quad that'll be fine for physics, but if you've got an 8#00 series card that you want to use for it instead, then that's fine imo :tongue: I just can't wait to try it out :P