Posts Tagged ‘ppu’

A Patch to Re-Enable Hardware PhysX When ATI Card is Present

ATI Radeon HD 5870 + PhysX patch
The patch in action with FluidMark (see HERE)


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8 comments - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - October 5, 2009 at 9:42 am

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Hardware PhysX Acceleration is Disabled (GeForce or Ageia) when ATI GPU is Present

NVIDIA PhysX

Radeon Graphics


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24 comments - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - September 28, 2009 at 4:50 pm

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PhysX Performance: GPU vs PPU vs CPU

FiringSquad has published an article that compares PhysX performance of CPU versus PPU versus GPU. The softwares used for this test are Unreal Tournament 3, Nurien and Warmonger.


Conclusion: for over two years old graphics cards, Ageia PhysX PPU is useful but isn’t able to match the performance of today’s GeForce cards.

Read the complete article here: PhysX Performance Update: GPU vs. PPU vs. CPU

In PhysX FluidMark news, I put a graph that shows CPU/PPU/GPU comparison. The results show a larger difference between PPU and GPU but this is due to the kind of test: fluid simulation.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - August 20, 2008 at 10:34 am

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