Nvidia PhysX runs on AMD Radeon 3870, scores 22,000 CPU marks in Vantage

June 27, 2008

This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com told us that he has done it already and was able to get the Nvidia PhysX layer to run on ATI Radeon cards.

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