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NVIDIA Removes Restriction on ATI GPUs with NVIDIA GPUs Processing PhysX

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NVIDIA has reportedly removed the driver-level code which restricts users from having an NVIDIA GeForce GPU process PhysX with an ATI Radeon GPU in the lead, processing graphics. Version 257.15 Beta of the GeForce drivers brought about this change. Possible commercial interests may have played NVIDIA's previous decision to prevent the use of GeForce GPUs to process PhysX with ATI Radeon GPUs, where users could buy an inexpensive GeForce GPU to go with a high-end DirectX 11 compliant Radeon GPU, thereby reducing NVIDIA's margins, though officially NVIDIA maintained that the restriction was in place to ensure Quality Assurance. The present move also seems to have commercial interests in mind, as NVIDIA could clear inventories of GeForce GPUs at least to users of ATI Radeon GPUs. NVIDIA replenished its high-end offering recently with the DirectX 11 compliant GeForce 400 series GPUs.

This looks like Nvidia are hurting form ATI's current growth in the market.

http://www.ngohq.com/news/17916-nvidia-removes-hybrid-physx-blockage.html
 
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Physx is still nothing to get excited about but this is a sure sign Nvidia are hurting due to ATI's current popularity due to their 5000 cards, and probably poor fermi sales.
 
Good, now they just need to make it so that it runs on ATI cards - at least then we can actually have physics that important are to gameplay rather than being purely cosmetic.
 
titaniumx3 said:
Good, now they just need to make it so that it runs on ATI cards - at least then we can actually have physics that important to gameplay rather than being purely cosmetic.
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That's already possible, PhysX is fully documented and it's completely free to write drivers to accelerate it on any hardware. It won't happen though since AMD don't want to support anything owned by Nvidia.
 
Quite unexpected I must admit. Green trying to sell more low-tier cards ? Or is it a mistake, perhaps a desperate cry for attention. :rolleyes:



- Ordokai
 
Ordokai said:
Quite unexpected I must admit. Green trying to sell more low-tier cards ? Or is it a mistake, perhaps a desperate cry for attention. :rolleyes:



- Ordokai
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Oh I don’t think it’s a mistake, far from it. Them boys in green would have looked at this from every angle before making this decision. I follow the belief that they’re trying to shift older cards to make up some lost ground.
 
I m starting to have some faith in Nvidia. finally

it was a bad move as it would put off most in buying a lower end Nv card which is why they are/were in a spot of trouble

is this proven through?
 
wasc said:
Good news - a step in the right direction. As an idea I've been toying with, does anyone have any idea on what specification card you can use as a dedicated physx card btw?

e.g. are either of these ok?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-130-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1576

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-022-ZT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1009
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Anything 8 series and up will work, but either of the cards you linked would be great. I think EVGA put up some benchmarks to show the benefits of adding a 240 alongside a GTX480 for PhysX so you might want to look around on their site. It was a pretty decent boost if i recall.

EDIT: here you go > http://www.evga.com/articles/00552/
 
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wasc said:
Good news - a step in the right direction. As an idea I've been toying with, does anyone have any idea on what specification card you can use as a dedicated physx card btw?

e.g. are either of these ok?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-130-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1576

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-022-ZT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1009
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I think it's anything from the 9000 range onwards. stand fast...Should be as the post above.
 
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no 8xxx it is compatible with cuda & phyX

also the 9xxx is just a rebrand of the 8xxx
 
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