PhysX support on GeForce 8x

After NVIDIA acquired Ageia and obtained the last rights to PhysX, we all have many questions left. Mainly not related to the cost of the transaction (well, by and large, what a difference to us), and how NVIDIA is going to implement PhysX support in their products.

And just the other day, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Hong (Jen-Hsun Huang) unequivocally stated that the company is working on “porting the PhysX engine to CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture),” and that this support will be implemented as a “software update ". Thus, the owners of GeForce video cards with GPU of the eighth series (and these are the first cards with CUDA) may soon feel how the NVIDIA acquisition of Ageia gave a lot.

The timing of the appearance of the patch, including PhysX on NVIDIA cards, has not yet been determined. But we can say with confidence that NVIDIA will not be particularly pull with this. Since this is also a good marketing move, with the help of which a company can interest gamers in acquiring a second or even third card in order to “divide” between them the tasks of miscalculation of graphics and physics.
via Engadget