PhysX getting added to the basic GeForce driver for August 12th.

this is gonna be so sweeeeet

I wonder if this is gonna even work....

Looks cool but I would like to see more mainstream games that actually incorporate PhysX.

Nvidia still doesn't forget about the FX series which fails us

Im so happy i remeber i was thinking about get a ageia physx, now i just get it free :), I still cant wait for the new 280gtx Im getting tired of the sli system,

what i still dont get (i read the article) is why is there no framerate decrease when the gpu physics is enabled? I mean using those stream proc's for physics should take away from their potential use for the standard graphical tasks. Sure it frees the cpu, but how important is that anyways?

@crazyguy248 - that's because calculating physics doesn't need nearly as much horsepower .

uh have you done much physics lately ?

flight simulators have low frame rates for a reason. and its not because of the graphics needed.

That's because , as far as I know , the CPU handles the physics there . HOWEVER , since a highend GPU's processing power is like 19 or 20 times higher , than that of a CPU , the amount of processing power needed for physics calculating is nothing to the GPU .

It's not that a GPU has 20x the processing power of a CPU it's more in the way it handles data. A CPU is (essentially) a serial processor, meaning every bit of data must follow the bit before it. With physics processing this puts a great strain on the CPU as it must wait for one calculation to complete before beginning another. With a GPU you have a massive parallel processor, which is designed not to stream data but rather to process everything at once. This means that a physics engine does not need to wait for one process to finish before starting another, allowing for either one complex physics particle system (like a cloth or water) to be rendered in a single cycle (slight exaggeration, but you get the idea) or a multitude of simple physics to be rendered at the same time (like particle collisions). Also, nVidia doesn't utilize it's shader processors in the same function that ATI does. They do alot of their post-processing effects (AA/AF and the like) in the ROP's (hence the huge number of them) so in most games the 240 stream processors in the GTX280 is way overkill (excluding the 3 DX10 titles out). So taking 20-40 of those shaders and devoting them to physics will have minimal if any impact on overall performance, and by freeing up the CPU to track objects they will gain that performance right back.

Sorry this is so long, I hope it is informative.

Thanks for posting the long version of that .. that's a lotta text .
Although , in terms of real life performance , a GPU does have several times more processing power , for lets say physics .

Tomorrow... :)

This is going to be good. I'm excited.

Hey! Where's the new driver and PhysX demos? I'm waiting...