After a lull caused by the fact that one company bought another, there is the first data on the positive movement towards accelerating the forces of physics graphic adapters NVIDIA. Platform CUDA, actively promoted the graphical giant, is adapting the work with physical engine PhysX, which gives the opportunity to accelerate the physical effects by families GeForce 8 graphics cards, GeForce 9 and GeForce GTX 200. It is noteworthy that some sources said that a GeForce 9800 GTX + receive the support PhysX, perhaps this is just an excuse additional information to explain what actually increase frequency is not the most important thing in a model with the sign “+”.

Colleagues from the resource Guru3D.com report that for a successful physics acceleration forces NVIDIA graphics chip company must meet two conditions - that drivers PhysX version 8.06.12 and ForceWare 177.39, plus the availability of the system installed video cards based on G92 chip or GT200. The list of supported graphics adapters will grow with new versions of drivers.

I now turn to the most interesting, to test. In addition to our colleagues from the resource Guru3D.com, and noted the guys from the site NGOHQ.com, who also held small in comparison 3DMark Vantage, with the unidentified driver and PhysX. Unfortunately, no data on the platform at which they conducted their experiment, but it is known that the resource Guru3D.com conducted measurements using graphics card XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition, while the site NGOHQ.com some GeForce 9800 GT. Testing was conducted in the mode of “Performance”.

It would seem that the link is only to “magic” of drivers, both in the same moment amounts frames per second in the modern games will grow. According to colleagues, all quite the contrary, as part of unified Shader blocks used to miscalculation physics, total FPS is declining. And the only software application, demonstrating performance gains, but rather “parrots” - is 3DMark Vantage. Not in vain colleagues from the site Guru3D.com lead and score in the “GPU score”, which in both cases well.