Rules Question about PhysX

[Alriin]

Hi Friends!

 

I allways bench my Videocards in AM3, 3DMark01, 03, 05 & 06 (PCMark anyway) with disabled PhysX.

But with new Videocards i have a very low CPU-Score in Aquamark when i disable PhysX.

Is it allowed to enable it for Aquamark3?

 

I allways follow the Rules... so i dont like to break them undeliberate. But a CPU-Score worth 10000 Points with a Phenom II X4 955 is crazy! :-)

 

greets Michael

[Alriin]

I know. Only Vantage use ist... but i have a Run with 50k Points more in AM3. really!!!

[Alriin]

Ok, its not reproducible. I dont know whats wrong! hmmm.....

[hikkoo]

heya.....Curious why Physx not allowed in 3dmarkvantage only have a notebook

 

will they ever allow Physx enabled on vantage as a seperate benchy while still having physx not allowed vantage benchy

 

Thanks.....

[hikkoo]

thats cool.. just me notebook no match for desktop should get a handicap(joke)

[stabias]

is ageia physics allowed for the 3dm vantage?

[hikkoo]

noticed above hwbot removed their posts about not using Nvidia drivers with physx?

 

so does this mean now we can submit scores with Physx?

 

Also Hwbot Rules 3DMark Vantage - Performance info page is blank?

[Massman]

physx is not allowed on hwbot.

[hikkoo]

thanks,

Does anyone know for sure if Nvidia 180.43 Beta driver has physx ? release date 2008.10.24( Nvidia Release Notes (v180.43) download link broken) & is nvlddmkm 7.15.11.8043 driver same as Nvidia180.43 Beta.

Edited February 11, 2010 by hikkoo

[Massman]

IIRC, all latest Nvidia drivers have PhysX. You can disable PhysX in the Nvidia control center.

[Jokester_wild]

This is a bit of an honor systems though, I dont see a way you could tell if someone did use it or not.

[knopflerbruce]

One of the CPU tests is way better than normal, pretty easy to spot.

Edited February 11, 2010 by knopflerbruce

[Turrican]

One of the CPU tests are way better than normal, pretty easy to spot.

 

yeah, the 2nd cpu test is way too high if physx is used.

[Jokester_wild]

ahhhh good to know.

[SteveRo]

So I understand that PhysX is not allowed on hwbot - understood.

 

For my own education - please - how is it that PhysX is not allowed but hyperthreading is allowed? - isn't both "features" of the respective h/w?

Edited December 9, 2010 by SteveRo

[Massman]

PhysX is software for using Nvidia VGA to calculate physics real-time. Hyperthreading is hardware to use the gap in two instructions of one thread to insert an instruction of another thread to improve multi-threading performance.

 

You need drivers to use an Nvidia VGA for rendering physics (software=PhysX) whereas you don't need drivers to use hyperthreading.

[jmke]

better explanation is that PhysX impacts CPU score, where as HT doesn't impact GPU score

[Bobnova]

HT is worth ~30% if it's well utilized (wprime, for example), but it's a hardware feature rather then a software feature.

[Massman]

No, we don't; physX is not allowed as per rule.