- March 30, 2010
- Written by Mark
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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.
- November 6, 2009
- Written by Mark
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Ninjalane.com has posted an impressive article on PhysX, PhysX Performance Tests – The way games should be played, tests out PhysX performance in several of the latest games that implement PhysX. Ninjalane runs several performance tests using an Ageia PPU, GTX 285 for graphics and physics, the GTX 285+ GeForce GTS 250 1GB for PhysX and then two GTX 285′s in SLI mode for graphics and PhysX. There goal was to find out what exactly the best way to run PhysX is and which configurations give the best performance. The article also goes over what PhysX is so if you are new to the world of PhysX and game physics than you will definitely want to read through it.
From Ninjalane.com:
Ninjalane is jumping into this PhysX world to see what all the talk is about. We will be testing several hardware configurations to see what the GPU, CPU, and a dedicated PhysX PCI Card can do. We will be testing five games that uses PhysX on the hardware level to see what the impact is. These games are Unreal Tournament 3, Mirrors Edge, Cryostasis, Darkest Days, and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Each one of these games uses PhysX to add new depth to the game play, and even some new content to them as well. Let’s move into the hardware and the testing methodology.
The testing will be done to show a few different perspectives of PhysX usage. Nvidia claims that PhysX is done best on a GPU, and we wanted to test this theory out. So we setup a few different hardware selections to test out about all the ways you could run PhysX. We ran a system using a GeForce GTX 285 for mainly doing graphics. Then we forced PhysX to run on the following setups.
The variable system pieces used for the testing.
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.8Ghz doing the PhysX work
PhysX 128MB PCI Card doing the PhysX work
GeForce GTX 285 doing graphics and PhysX work
GeForce GTX 285 graphics with dedicated GeForce GTS 250 1GB for PhysX
GeForce GTX 285 in SLI mode to do graphics and PhysX work
Read the rest of the article here.
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