All GeForce 8,000 series cards to gain PhysX support.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 03:10:35 Thu, February 14, 2008

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was quoted as saying during a conference call:

"We're working toward the physics-engine-to-CUDA port as we speak. And we intend to throw a lot of resources at it. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if it helps our GPU sales even in advance of [the port's completion]. The reason is, [it's] just gonna be a software download. Every single GPU that is CUDA-enabled will be able to run the physics engine when it comes. . . . Every one of our GeForce 8-series GPUs runs CUDA."

So soon GeForce 8,000 series owners will get some cool physics features to gawk at while playing GRAW 2 and Unreal Tournament 3.

Nvidia's CUDA Zone

11 Comments

Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:52:10 PM

Pezzotti
guest

i dont really like how the physX feels in ut3... but omg. but will it work the same than the original physX card, as in same speed and power?!?

Friday, February 15, 2008 11:18:05 AM

Sunny
guest

I hope it works the same that would be awesome and eliminate the whole physics card in general. So if I do go 3 way SLI I can still have physics with basically all PCI slots on the board covered. AWESOME!

Friday, February 15, 2008 11:40:45 AM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

Will this allows Nvidia to have 8000 cards function as a "3D-decelerator" with PhysX selected? wow

Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:10:11 PM

anonymous
guest

finally get rid of the pos physix or whatever cards...waste of money to me

Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:45:58 AM

anonymous
guest

AWESOME!When?, What series of Geforce 8? or new series?

Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:59:18 PM

xtian
n00b

so... my 8800 GTS 512MB can run $hitX? OMG nice! but how can i make that dream true?

Monday, February 18, 2008 12:42:24 AM

anonymous
guest

Ok, but people are missing an obvious deficit here. Unless you're running SLI you WILL take a FPS hit running the physx code. Not because the cards aren't powerful enough, but that you are taking resources that are needed to render the scene. With the current line up of games just about all rendering power is required at high detail levels. Just something to think about.

Monday, February 18, 2008 5:48:57 AM

wyz135
guest

Does this article is telling us that the GeForce 8 series is supporting the Ageia PhyX card or 8 series has their built-on PhyX processor??

Monday, February 18, 2008 8:47:22 AM

JP
guest

anonymous
"AWESOME!When?, What series of Geforce 8? or new series?"

All of them!

Monday, February 18, 2008 5:25:09 PM

anonymousD
n00b

Every one of our GeForce 8-series GPUs runs CUDA.

think he meant ALL

Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:11:54 PM

pk7
guest

Any idea when the update will be released?

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