NVIDIA Sheds Light On Lack Of PhysX CPU Optimizations

Posted on Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 0:50 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

About four months ago, we covered the latest round of shin-kicking between ATI and NVIDIA, with ATI claiming that NVIDIA purposefully crippled CPU performance when running PhysX code and coerced developers to make use of it. NVIDIA denied all such claims, particularly those that implied it used its "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" program as a bludgeon to force hardware PhysX on developers or gamers.

A new report has dug into how PhysX is executed on a standard x86 CPU; the analysis confirms some of AMD's earlier statements. Read more at HotHardware.

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