PhysX has just been a CUDA application for a long time, there’s not been a dedicated PPU on any card in a very long time
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 days agoYeah, and a great post too - because some of your points here just point out that everyone ELSE have deprecated PhysX as well. Unity and Unreal both dropped it long ago. It’s basically a moot point for 99.9% of people playing games.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
LaggyKar@programming.dev 2 days ago
I don’t think there has ever been a PPU on the GPU. It originally ran on PPU cards by Ageia, but AFAIK PhysX on GPU:s used CUDA GPGPU right from the start.
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
well, sorta. some engines like unreal have indeed dropped physx, but there are some heavy hitters in there. unity did not drop it as far as i know, but they have a separate version without it that’s not made for games.
i also happen to know that ARMA 3, which is not on the list, is a heavy physx user. so i don’t know how accurate any of our lists actually are.
my takeaway from this list is that if nvidia follows suit with their AX series and other pro cards, they are going to lose significant market share with the CAD and CFD crowd.