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going to upgrade my rig

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24008065&posted=1#post24008065

and am wondering if going from Tri-fire HD5870's to
a single GPU with 2GB + VRAM

whether to go for the 7970 for the price
and have to get a hybrid PHYSX GPU

or just get the latest Nvidia GPU for a similar cost

:confused:

and is it beneficial to run AMD + AMD or INTEL + NVIDIA

not sure about this any more lol
 
PhysX is appearing less and less in games tbh and the 7970 is a steal over a 680 when you consider the price gap.

Also for the combination thing AMD+AMD and what not it really doesn't matter, although I would try and stick to an Intel CPU if you can.
 
Whilst PhysX is appearing less (it was never in abundance), what games are you playing that take advantage of PhysX?
 
borderlands 2

the difference in Physx vs. non physx convinced me in this game alone that I need it in my life :)

the AMD rig I have runs moderate Physx without too much of a performance hit ... but I needs MOAR !"

ARMA 3 (not sure how much it will use it though)

and... whatever else comes out in the next year or so.

it's not massivley important but ... I'd rather have it and pay the premium than not have it and have to spend more after I upgrade

that make sense ?
 
I don’t want to be seen as someone banging the physx drum simply because I have an Nvidia GPU.

But to say it's appearing in less games is false. It's neither in decline or ascendancy at the moment,.

BUT and that’s a huge but, the next gen consoles will support physx so we should see more games start using it in the future.
 
My advice would be to wait on Arma3 with gpu PhysX enabled, rather than purchase now.

On the cpu+gpu combination, Intel and either for general utmost performance, but if you stick with your AMD, then AMD+AMD works better than AMD+Nvidia.:)
 
opethdisciple said:
I don’t want to be seen as someone banging the physx drum simply because I have an Nvidia GPU.

But to say it's appearing in less games is false. It's neither in decline or ascendancy at the moment,.

BUT and that’s a huge but, the next gen consoles will support physx so we should see more games start using it in the future.
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It is in decline, when first released it was in quite a number of games, some games now including ARMA 3 as the OP mentioned above just use CPU PhysX with no option to make it run off the GPU. I like PhysX myself, in Borderlands 2 it certainly is a game changer but you rarely see it now in AAA titles.
 
Suarez7 said:
It is in decline, when first released it was in quite a number of games, some games now including ARMA 3 as the OP mentioned above just use CPU PhysX with no option to make it run off the GPU. I like PhysX myself, in Borderlands 2 it certainly is a game changer but you rarely see it now in AAA titles.
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It's quite a big deal tho you must admit that the next gen consoles despite having AMD gpu's will support physx.
 
opethdisciple said:
It's quite a big deal tho you must admit that the next gen consoles despite having AMD gpu's will support physx.
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Not really a big deal, if PhysX was such a great selling point you wouldn't have seen the masses of people who have switched to AMD over the past few months. While the new consoles will support PhysX it doesn't mean it's going to be used anymore than it is now. I predict some other kinds of Physics API will come out soon.
 
Is it confirmed hardware gpu PhysX or is it on the cpu again?

The new unreal engine is catering for more than just gpu Physx this time round, it has an alternative gpu physic path inbuilt afaik.
 
Arma 3 will use PhysX 3.0, which will run on GPU and CPU. I am not sure if there is any benefit of owning a Nvidia card?
 
opethdisciple said:
I don’t want to be seen as someone banging the physx drum simply because I have an Nvidia GPU.

But to say it's appearing in less games is false. It's neither in decline or ascendancy at the moment,.

BUT and that’s a huge but, the next gen consoles will support physx so we should see more games start using it in the future.
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They may only support the CPU side, whether or not that translates into hardware accelerated physics/physX is debatable.
Well, it kind of has to be CPU side only, as it's not an Nvidia GPU, unless Nvidia (Highly unlikely) have made it so hardware accelerated physx can run on AMD.
 
And the PhysX used on the consoles won't be Nvidia PhysX as we know it unless they suddenly make it an open for AMD to use.
 
Bacon? said:
And the PhysX used on the consoles won't be Nvidia PhysX as we know it unless they suddenly make it an open for AMD to use.
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I dont know the in's and out's (I just glaced the article but off the top of my head it said that Nvidia Physx and something called Apex will be supported on the next gen consoles.

Dont know if Apex is another Nvidia thing or not.

I doubt it would run gpu side tho, it must be a cpu implementation of physx.
 
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Bacon? said:
And the PhysX used on the consoles won't be Nvidia PhysX as we know it unless they suddenly make it an open for AMD to use.
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Not necessarily, if they open the door on console gpu PhysX doesn't necessarily equate to PC PhysX gpu unlocking on AMD.
 
I think I worded it wrong :o

Consoles are using AMD hardware right... Like Rossi said the only PhysX is Nvidia PhysX but you can run it off the CPU. So unless Nvidia make PhysX open to AMD or PhysX actually works well on the CPU I cant see it doing anything on the consoles.
 
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