8500gt as a physx card?

[Gerard]

My 295 arrives on monday, just wondering if the gt would be worth a crap as a physx card, its what im currently using for gaming and by god is it awful.

256mb version.

 

[Theguy]

your card is powerful enough without the need for another card to do the physics man, put it that way.

 

[Gerard]

your card is powerful enough without the need for another card to do the physics man, put it that way.

I'll wait and see come monday, be interesting to see how the 295 performs with and without the gt handling phsyx.

 

[Theguy]

true very true. what you got to lose, giving it ago eh?

 

[Rroff]

8500GT is prolly slower at physx as a dedicated card than just leaving it to the 295.

 

[Gerard]

8500GT is prolly slower at physx as a dedicated card than just leaving it to the 295.

We shall see

 

[DavyBoy]

I wouldn't waste your time mate, I tried using my 512MB 8500GT as a dedicated PhysX card along side my GTX280, and it made things worse!!

I'm sure I've read somewhere that you need to use a 9500GT at least for dedicated PhysX.

By all means try using the 8500, but like I said, it gave me worse performance than just using my GTX280 alone..

 

[Rroff]

Anything less than 64 SP, 96+ better is a waste of time IMO and likely to hold performance back - a card without atleast DDR3 memory doesn't hurt either.

 

[coupe69]

Yep like Rroff says, you wanna be looking at a 9600GT minimum for physX, Batman AA recommends 9800GTX

 

[uv]

8500GT is prolly slower at physx as a dedicated card than just leaving it to the 295.

This.

Using an 8600GT for physx caused slight slowdowns for me in Mirror's Edge. An 8500gt will make your games slower, not faster.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Ive tried a 8600GT and that slowed my GTX260 down. I did try a 8800GTS 640Mb and that worked pretty well. I had to give up the use of the 8800 when i changed to i5 so that i could still use my TV card and soundcard

 

[straxusii]

Awful, 9600GT as others have said.

I think the 9800GTX for batman is for combined gpu and physx, not stand alone physx

 

[Cyber-Mav]

a card without atleast DDR3 memory doesn't hurt either.

you should quote a bandwidth figure insted, your gonna look mighty stupid recommending ddr3 cards that can have a 64bit memory interface.

 

[Rroff]

Oh OK then - ideally you want a card with atleast 25GB/s memory bandwidth - tho the SPs are more important.

There aren't exactly many cards that have >=64 SP and <128bit DDR3 memory.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

There aren't exactly many cards that have >=64 SP and <128bit DDR3 memory.

well looks like theres a gap in the market for nvidia to fill soon enough