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

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

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

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.....

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

is ageia physics allowed for the 3dm vantage?

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?

physx is not allowed on hwbot.

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, 201015 yr by hikkoo

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

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

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

Edited February 11, 201015 yr by knopflerbruce

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.

ahhhh good to know.

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, 201014 yr by SteveRo

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.

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

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

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