Would it not have been an idea to enable GPU physx instead, to see what the differences are then??

Even on my 8800GT, the CPU2 test goes well above 100.

See what scores the nvidia based machines get, then use the CPU for the ATI scores, and see how much more powerful GPU physX is than even skulltrail.

Havoc has been announced to be PhysX compatible. So Good convergence. Mutli PhysX is supposed to be same as one or none. seems OverClocked unit gets less bump.

Heres new nvidia 350GTX, notice last line:

NVIDIA GTX 350
GT300 core
55nm technology
576mm
512bit
DDR5 2GB memory, doubled GTX280
480SP doubled GTX280
Grating operation units are 64 the same with GTX280
216G bandwidth
Default 830/2075/3360MHZ
Pixel filling 36.3G pixels/s
Texture filling 84.4Gpixels/s
Cannot support D10.1 .10.0/SM4.

Well its over 200 gb/s, so New TOP. Ultie will continue to search for ways to push numbers beyond any mere home calculators Reach. SSD from 980 mb/s to 4?gb/s might be in need of controllers to support such spectecule, yet is in todays writings.
drashek

I read a lot that nvidia are cheating at 3dmark scores for the extra points gained due to physx API used in 3dmark vantage. but doesn't that extra score means better performance and visuals on how things looked (the objects physics) when the test ran? i mean.. gaming experience is not only the FPS counter!!!

Well why would my 2 yo motherboard have 3 pci-express x16 (3rd is actually 8x) slots for.. tri-sli? yeah right, it didn't even exist at that time.

But what everyone has forgoten about is that things usally get more complex, will physics as well? if it does then an 8 core or more system won't cope.

Isn't it fair that the Physx processing skews the benchmarks? After all people will make use of the feature in games if it boosts their fps, I thought that was the purpose of the benchmarks to demonstrate how well a set-up can run games?

The question I'm waiting to find out is whether the NVIDIA hybrid SLI motherboards will be able to offload the Physx processing to the on-board graphics card while the discrete motherboard is left going full pelt on graphics processing?

Quite a head turning from Inquirer. First, nvidia cheats on physX and now physX is a wonderful and beautiful thing. Nvidia, we love you and thank you for your £££s!