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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: you878 on November 21, 2009, 10:37:15 PM

Title: Radeon 5870 - PhysX?
Post by: you878 on November 21, 2009, 10:37:15 PM

 I wasn't sure if this was the best forum for this question, but oh well:

 Does the Radeon 5870 Graphics Card support PhysX? I know PhysX is an Nvidia thing, but I've noticed quite a few games that have "PhysX exclusive" features, like dynamically destructible environments or more realistic weather effects etc. I really want to get this card, but it would be nice if I could get the extra PhysX features as well.

Title: Re: Radeon 5870 - PhysX?
Post by: BC_Programmer on November 22, 2009, 12:46:59 AM

Personally I'm not even sure exactly what PhysX entails; From what I understand it was developed by Ageia, and they were bought by NVidia; this would mean that Nvidia holds the exclusive rights to PhysX.

I'm not 100% in this but they MIGHT still make PhysX cards.

Title: Re: Radeon 5870 - PhysX?
Post by: Quantos on November 22, 2009, 05:34:59 AM

You878, here (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-physx-ati,5764.html) is an article that I found that might give some insight into this.

It doesn't appear that the support is official, but it does seem to be possible.