PhysX processor

[thatguyyouknow75]

Ive heard of people using a second graphics card in their system not in sli but to use as a physX processor. Can someone explain how this works, what its used for, and if it works with AMD cards?

 

[dragoon20005]

physX is a Nvidia technology

 

and sadly you cant use it with AMD cards

 

the feature will get locked

[SkilledRebuilds]

Internally ANY decent Nvidia modern GPU currently on sale can do this onboard.

 

Used to be a big deal having a Nvidia 2ndary GPU under your Primary AMD GPU,.....before it was locked out.

[thatguyyouknow75]

Internally ANY decent Nvidia modern GPU currently on sale can do this onboard.

 

Used to be a big deal having a Nvidia 2ndary GPU under your Primary AMD GPU,.....before it was locked out.

thats the bums

[QueenDemetria]

Ive heard of people using a second graphics card in their system not in sli but to use as a physX processor. Can someone explain how this works, what its used for, and if it works with AMD cards?

It used to work with AMD cards, where the AMD card was the primary display and the secondary nvidia card did the PhysX processing, but nvidia now blocks that capability. AMD cards alone cant support PhysX. If you have 2 nvidia cards you can use one for PhysX and the other for your display.

[Waqas409]

It used to work with AMD cards, where the AMD card was the primary display and the secondary nvidia card did the PhysX processing, but nvidia now blocks that capability. AMD cards alone cant support PhysX. If you have 2 nvidia cards you can use one for PhysX and the other for your display.

It means i can use whatever GPU i have as a PhysX gpu or there are specific list of it?

[thatguyyouknow75]

It used to work with AMD cards, where the AMD card was the primary display and the secondary nvidia card did the PhysX processing, but nvidia now blocks that capability. AMD cards alone cant support PhysX. If you have 2 nvidia cards you can use one for PhysX and the other for your display.

I honestly just wanted to use one of the spare video cards i have lying around was all

[QueenDemetria]

It means i can use whatever GPU i have as a PhysX gpu or there are specific list of it?

As long as its nvidia and has Cuda you can use it as a PhysX processor. Older cards might be a bottleneck though.

[pyro1212]

I wonder if you can reverse that and use a nvidia card as your primary and get the benefits of mantle with an AMD card?

[cesrai]

I wonder if you can reverse that and use a nvidia card as your primary and get the benefits of mantle with an AMD card?

"Benefits of mantle" what are those ?

[Sauron]

In well coded games physx can be done no problem by the cpu, it's just in games like the batman series that it was artificially locked to use a single core to nerf performance on amd card on purpose.

[NumLock21]

with a amd card, it's called hybrid physx.

Needs special drivers to work. Tried it before and it's really nice to play games that uses it.