PhysX
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PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as part of the Nvidia GameWorks software suite.
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The top screenshot shows how debris is simulated in the original PC release of Mafia II when PhysX is turned to the highest level in the game settings. The bottom screenshot shows a similar scene with PhysX turned to the lowest level.
CUDA
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CUDA is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface developed by Nvidia that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units for accelerated gener
PhysX
…cards designed by Ageia). However, after Ageia's acquisition by Nvidia, dedicated PhysX cards have been discontinued in favor of the API being run on CUDA-enabled GeForce GPUs. In both cases, hardware acceleration allowed for the offloading of certain physics calculations from the CPU, allowing it to…
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