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GeForce GTX 480 with GTX 465 for PhysX Benchmarks

Zogrim — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:03:59 +0000

It seems that TweakTown loves testing monstrous (and thus redundant for regular user) PhysX configurations. Previously it was HD 5970 + GTX 480, and now – GTX 480 for graphics along with GTX 465 working as dedicated PhysX card.

Update: and yet another article from TweakTown – GTX 480 vs GTX 470 + GTX 260 in PhysX games.

Read the full article.

Performance numbers are great, but GTX 465 does not seems to be a good candidate for such role because of heat, noise and high power consumption. I’m personally waiting for low-end Fermi based GPUs, to reinforce my new GTX 470

Hybrid PhysX: HD 5970 plus GTX 480 System benchmarks

Zogrim — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:22:38 +0000

Pretty decent article emerges on TweakTown recently – it contains benchmarks of monstrous Hybrid PhysX system with Sapphire HD 5970 TOXIC card for graphics and GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 480 for PhysX calculations, coupled with Core i7-980 @4.2 GHz CPU and 6 GB of RAM.

Update: Another article from TweakTown. HD 5970 and HD 5870 with GTX 465, GTX 285 and GTX 260 as PhysX cards.

Hardly many people can afford such system, but at least, it is interesting read.

Supersonic Sled Demo available for download

Zogrim — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:39:26 +0000

Supersonic Rocket Sled – DX11 and PhysX technology demo from Nvidia is finally available for download (221 mb). Unfortunately, you won’t be able to run it until you have GTX 400 Series GPU.

You can download Supersonic Sled demo from here

Nvidia GTX 480: up to 2.5x Performance in PhysX

Zogrim — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:04:07 +0000

Well, NDA for new GTX480/470 GPUs from Nvidia is lifting now all over the world, and we are ready to spoil some details about PhysX computing capabilities of new GPUs.

Not bad, huh ? GTX 480 promises 2.5x performance gain over GTX 285 in PhysX calculations. To reinforce this statement, some benchmarking results vere revealed.

First one – for Raging Rapid Ride techno-demo, featuring complex water simulation (you can read our overview here).

Second one – for actual GPU PhysX enhanced Dark Void title, released in January.

In addition, GTX 480’s ability to simulate and render up to 1 000 000 particles in Supersonic Sled demo was mentioned.

That is all what we have for you today

Update: PhysX performance graphs from various GTX 480/GTX 470 reviews around the web:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review by NjnjaLane

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Fermi by techPowerUp

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 by AnandTech

GTX 480 Fermi reviewed, finally by Fudzilla

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card Review by HardwareHeaven

GTX480/470 GPU Review by beareyes.com.cn

GTX480/470 GPU Review by pcpop.com

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Overclocking with Voltage Adjustment by Tweak Town

GTX 480 Test Part IV – PhysX and GPGPU by Extra Hardware

WeeklyTube Issue 27: PhysX video overview

Zogrim — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:31:51 +0000

Geforce GTX 480 running Supersonic Sled 2 by PCGamesHardware

Supersonic Sled demo sequence from Cebit 2010. But this time it’s showcases sled collision with obstacle, consisting of several destructible boxes and barrels, spawned on the rails. Number of generated physical debris is inspiring.

Esenthel RPG 2 by Esenthel

Playable demo of Esenthel game engine. Includes well tuned ragdolls and cloth simulation for character skirt, all PhysX SDK based.

CubeTop – Demo[HD] by burningxoul

3D virtual desktop similar to BumpTop. Used Direct3D and PhysX.

PhysX Dicycle test 01 by lukaskusnier

Dicycle (vehicle with two wheels parallel to each other) simulation with PhysX SDK.

PhysX: Simple crane (soft body cable) by Ambakapu

Crane with a load, rope is using PhysX softbody feature.

Loincloth by dera00007777

Animated character with PhysX clothing, simulated in Maya.

Rocket Sled: DX11 and PhysX features trailer

Zogrim — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:18:49 +0000

Official trailer of Rocket Sled demo (also known as Supersonic Sled), with detailed DX 11 and PhysX features description, emerges on YouTube recently.

Firstly shown on CES 2010, Rocket Sled is supposed to demonstrate both graphics and physics computing capabilities of new GF100 (Fermi) GPUs.

If you are interested in more in-depth technical details behind this demo, you can watch this video or read this article.

GF100 Technology previews are revealing new PhysX details

Zogrim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:14:11 +0000

Today NDA relative to new Nvidia GF100 (Fermi) GPU was partially lifted , and major websites have already published their technological previews of new architecture (without game benchmarks yet). Certain details on GF100 PhysX potentiality and PhysX Technology were stated accordingly, and here is our sum overview:

GF100 Preview by GURU 3D specifies GF100 physics computing capabilities – 2x times faster then GT200 arhitecture in Dark Void, and up to 3x in PhysX Fluid simulation.

“NVIDIA GF100 Architecture and Feature Preview” article by hothardware.com adds new details on Supersonic Sled demo.

The Supersonic Sled Demo uses GPU particles systems for smoke, dust, and fireballs, PhysX physical models for rigid bodies and joints, which are partially processed on the CPU, tessellation is used for the terrain, and image processing is used for the motion blur effect.

Particles are strewn about and objects like a shack, bridge, and rock ledge crumble as the sled jets by. Hundreds of thousands to a million particles can be on the screen at any given time, all being managed by the GPU.

In addition, new video from Supersonic Sled demo can be found on Youtube

Update: This article from PCtuning contains lot of slides from recent CES briefing, explaining Nvidia developer relations. Some of them are focused on GPU PhysX games, PhysX SDK and APEX framework.

In addition, slides on this page are describing all math and physics behing Supersonic Sled demo. Same slides and following desription – now on video

Update #2: Bridge destruction demo (starts at 0:50) – up to 1000 000 debris particles, simulated in realtime

– We’ll update this post as more articles emerge –