What would be a good video card for PhysX support

[kendrab]

I am wondering what people are using for dedicated PhysX support. I know you need an nVidia card for this, but how good a card do you need? Would an nVidia GTX 460 be appropriate? I would be using it in combination with EVGA GTX 580 SC video cards on a dual monitor 3D ready system with the lesser card being assigned to PhysX only support.

[xinhang]

Don't think you owuld need such powerful card just for physx. I would just get a gtx280 which can be had for $100 used.

[_dangtx_]

from what i gathered the 580 will be fine on its own, sticking physx on the 460 might make it slower, might. that's on a single screen. on dual screens the 460 could make a difference, how much i cant tell you right now.

[belgolas]

Well I did test on different cards for Batman AA and I would say the minimum you would need is a 9800 GTX. So the GTX 460 will be plenty for a dedicated physx card.

Don't listen to dangtx because thats not true. A dedicated physx card even the lowly 9800 GTX will give significant performance boost in all physx heavy games. Adding a powerful enough dedicated physx card will NEVER lower performance on games. It might for certain crappy benchmarks like Futuremark.

[_dangtx_]

well, if you put a lowly card just for physx and leave the rest to a power dog like the 580 might seem natural, but going by a test linked on another thread that's not exactly the case. the 460 is much better than the 9800 at it,just do it and let us know too

[AstonM]

Go with the gtx 460, especially if you are sli-ing the 580's. Performance does increase as phyx cards gett better

[th3b00m]

Tomshardware posted a nifty little guide for cases like this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...deon,2764.html