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Old August 6th, 2008   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MrPink View Post
I guess it isn't possible to "game" on an ATI card, and use an nvidia as a dedicated PPU?
Doesn't look like it at this point, but it's probably possible and more likely if AMD/ATi also jumps on board to support CUDA/PhysX. I think the technology is very interesting because it's flexible enough to allow you to use it on a single GPU, the CPU, or multiple GPU's in 2 different configurations.

SLI:
GPU1 + GPU2 - both process Physics with work split between both

SLI Alt:
GPU1 - does all GPU video rendering
GPU2 - does all Physics processing

Luckily, I have an extra 8800gt to spare and judging from the recent benchmarks, that configuration works quite well with PhysX.
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