NVidia Falsely Advertising 9200m GS?

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I got a new laptop with a 9200m GS video card. After fooling around a little bit, I looked on the Nvidia website:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9200m_gs_us.html

"This product is also enabled for CUDA applications and is NVIDIA PhysX-ready."


However, when looking at the 195.62 driver page...

"Supports NVIDIA PhysX hardware acceleration on GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory and 32 processing cores."

The 9200m GS has 8 CUDA cores... I also checked in Mirror's Edge, and it says hardware Physx is not supported.

So why does Nvidia advertise the 9200m GS as Physx ready, when it really isn't?
 
The requirements for PhysX changed at some point, upping the minimum core requirement. Is it possible nvidia just never updated their site?
 
Abit667 said:
The requirements for PhysX changed at some point, upping the minimum core requirement. Is it possible nvidia just never updated their site?
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Fat chance, this is typical NV smoke and mirrors.
 
The bothered to make a card with just 8 unified shaders? Whatever for? Ion has 16 unified shaders, and can barely do anything beyond accelerate video.
 
Still, that's a pretty egregious "mistake." Customers have enough trouble learning the ins and outs of nvidia hardware what with all the rebranding.
 
Is anyone really surprised by this? When it comes to Nvidia's hardware marketing, caveat emptor should be the first thing that comes to mind.
 
defaultluser said:
The bothered to make a card with just 8 unified shaders? Whatever for? Ion has 16 unified shaders, and can barely do anything beyond accelerate video.
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It actually performs pretty well in Source games, except TF2...

Well, I guess I should have expected that Nvidia would be the one to mess up their product page... That is why I usually buy ATI. Didn't get the laptop to game, but it is too bad Nvidia is damaging their reputation by rebranding...
 
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defaultluser said:
The bothered to make a card with just 8 unified shaders? Whatever for? Ion has 16 unified shaders, and can barely do anything beyond accelerate video.
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And play Torchlight at 1600x900 maxed with AA/AF and get 40+ fps. Disable AA and that shoots up to 70fps. Don't knock it till you try it, I was shocked that Torchlight ran that well on an IGP, great game all around.
 
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