NVIDIA PhysX Technology – Enabled vs. Disabled Comparison Video

• May 4, 2010
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EVGA has made a really nice PhysX comparison video showing off the latest games that implement PhysX. The video shows comparison’s from Batman Arkham Asylum, Metro 2033,Mirror’s Edge,Dark Void,Darkest of Days, Cryostasis, and the NVIDIA PhysX Supersonic Sled demo. The video shows what PhysX brings to games and can change your gaming experience. Check it out below and be sure to check out the EVGA Gaming website.

From EVGA:

This video shows NVIDIA PhysX features in popular games, and how NVIDIA PhysX can dramatically improve the quality of your gaming experience! Learn more about the latest and fastest PhysX hardware at http://www.evga.com/

Games/applications shown:
*Batman Arkham Asylum
*Metro 2033
*Mirror’s Edge
*Dark Void
*Darkest of Days
*NVIDIA Supersonic Sled
*Cryostasis

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review and PhysX Performance

• March 30, 2010
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NinjaLane has put together a really nice review of the new GTX 480 video card. What is interesting about this review compared to most is that they also did a very in-depth section on PhysX performance for the latest games that implement PhysX. They put Metro 2033, Darkest Of Days and Batman: Arkham Asylum to the test to see how they perform on the new GTX 480 compared to the GTS 250 and GTX 285 video cards. Check out the review here.

from the NinjaLane NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review:

With the new GeForce GTX 480 coming out we get to explore some of the extra power that has been given to us from a single GPU card while having PhysX enabled. In these tests we have grabbed a few games that use PhysX very heavily and test them using three different generations of PhysX enabled GPUs.

Read the rest of the review here.

7 PhysX Comparison Videos You Need To Watch

• December 29, 2009
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Over the past year we saw the release of several games that really took advantage of PhysX such as Darkest Of Days, Batman Arkham Asylum and Cryostasis, Many people have been wondering what the big deal about PhysX is and why exactly it needs to be done on the GPU while similar features have been implemented in games for several years now with the Havok Physics engine that runs on the CPU. PhysX is only just emerging on the scene and game developers are hard at work implemented PhysX into many new games, as we recently posted in our “Awesome Video Game Physics Destruction Videos You Need to Watch” PhysX and video game physics in general have the potential to really bring games to the next level and change the way we play forever. Anyone that has played games like Batman Arkham Asylum ,Darkest Of Day or Mirrors Edge and has played them with and without PhysX knows that PhysX really does add to the atmosphere and environment of the game and is not just simple eye candy.

If you are not really familiar with PhysX in the latest games and the different features that PhysX offers and have been implemented into these games then these PhysX comparison videos will show you, most of them have been put together by PhysXinfo.com. Zogrim over at PhysXinfo.com has been doing an amazing job putting together PhysX comparison videos for the latest games that implement PhysX. Most of the video’s from PhysXinfo.com are side-by-side comparison videos showing what the game looks like with PhysX Enabled and disabled along with each of the different PhysX features that have been implemented into the game giving you a really good idea of what PhysX brings to the game.

We put together a list of 7 of the best PhysX comparison videos that you should watch. Most of them are from PhysXinfo.com done by Zogrim except for the Terminator Salvation PhysX OFF|ON side-by-side Comparison and the Terminator Salvation PhysX CPU|GPU side-by-side Comparison which were put together by Nvidia.

Terminator Salvation PhysX OFF|ON side-by-side Comparison

Terminator Salvation PhysX CPU|GPU side-by-side Comparison

FULL – GPU PhysX in Batman Arkham Asylum

FULL – GPU PhysX in Darkest of Days

GPU PhysX in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

GPU PhysX in Cryostasis

GPU PhysX in Mirror’s Edge

Bjorn3d Looks at the PhysX in Darkest Of Days

• November 9, 2009
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Bjorn3d has done an impressive and highly informative review of Darkest Of Days and is taking a look at the PhysX that is implemented into the game. The review goes over the different PhysX features that are implemented in Darkest Of Days and how it adds to the gameplay and depth and makes the game more realistic. From there they run a series of tests to see what the performance is like with “Physx enabled on a single GTX275 with Physx enabled on a 9600GT, a single GTX275, and no PhysX run with the GTX275.” Read the entire article here.

From Bjorn3d:

A little while ago I gave you a preview Darkest Of Days, we at Bjorn3D are going to look at the Nvidia Physx side of things. Nvidia Physx has brought us some rather unique effects in this game for instance denser smoke, blowing leaves, more particles from exploding howitzer rounds, and sparks flying everywhere after firing our weapon.

Nvidia has made it possible to make our games seem more realistic through the use of PhysX. PhysX is looking like a reality in future games. Who would not want to see a bit more of an environment that completely reacts to the player as we play a game?

Being able to see leaves floating on by hit off an solid object and react to that solid object. Smoke and dust hovering close to the ground partially concealing yourself and the bad guy. In thick smoke, fog, and dusty areas we can actually see where a person is at because those particles would move around that object/person moving around inside.

Read the rest of the review here.