PhysX support on GeForce 8x

    After the acquisition of Ageia by NVIDIA and the latest rights to PhysX, we all have many questions. Basically, they’re not about the cost of the transaction (well, by and large, what’s the difference to us), but about how NVIDIA is going to implement PhysX support in its products.

    And the other day, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang clearly stated that the company is working on "porting the PhysX physics engine to CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)" and that this support will be implemented as a "software update ". Thus, owners of GeForce video cards with the eighth series GPUs (and these are the first cards with CUDA) will soon be able to feel how much NVIDIA gave the acquisition of Ageia.

    The timing of the appearance of the patch, including PhysX on NVIDIA cards, has not yet been determined. But it is safe to say that NVIDIA will not particularly pull with it. Since this is also a good marketing move, with the help of which the company can interest gamers in acquiring a second or even third card in order to “divide” between them the tasks of rendering graphics and physics.
    via Engadget

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