Thoughts on NVIDIA

[mbmadness]

NVIDIA needs to enable PhysX and CUDA on their motherboard chipset mGPUs. It would make their motherboard chipsets much more enticing. It would be like getting a PhysX card built into your mobo. The drivers could automatically detect if PhysX is supported and allow you to use your mGPU like a PhysX card. This way NVIDIA could get a lot more support for PhysX and maybe sell more chipsets as well.

If you have 4 graphics cards in your system and you are playing a game that does not benefit from the extra cards, the drivers should give you the option to convert one of the cards over to PhysX if the game supports it. I'm guessing this is what NVIDIA's plan is, but have not seen any details on driver support for PhysX with GPUs. It would be nice if the drivers could allow you to configure your mGPU and GPUs anyway you see fit. You could configure what resources are used depending on the game you are playing.

They should do themselves a big favor and allow SLI on all chipsets including Intel and AMD. They would probably sell more GPUs this way.

 

[chinesepiratefood]

They should allow SLI on any chipset, similar to Crossfire, and they should also allow you to choose which game to use PhysX (assuming the game supports it in the first place)

The second one they might add anyway, since this is very early in the game and only GT200 and 9800GTX cards are supported.

However, I don't believe there would be any benefit to adding PhysX support to integrated GPUs. Laptop(mobile) GPUs are a different story, and will likely have support eventually