Using a Graphics Card as a PhysX Processor - Beneficial or Not?

Even without reading the article I can tell you that the answer is.  Kinda.

Recently we reviewed the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! graphics card, and a good point popped into our mind, what the heck do we do with our old graphics card? Take a read to find our whether it is beneficial to use your older graphics card to process PhysX!

Lucky bastards,

Anyhow back to the discussion.  I am always amazed and how confused people get when talking about PhysX and this article is right up there.  First of all they are testing with Futuremark Firestrike and a handful of games that DO NOT enabled PhysX.  On top of that I get the impression that they are not using discrete graphics and put a Zotac 980 AMP! in there as a PhysX processor.

Mind Blown,  if they wrote this as an experiment for click bait then you win, I lost.  However, I see this as more of a joke article than something serious.  Or, if the article was a serious attempt at proving something they should just stop now.

Oh and for those of you wondering what the right answer is,  Yes you can benefit from a dedicated card in a few situations.  1) Running a lower end graphics card like a x60 series card from nVidia.  2) Running SLI, PhysX doesn't take much processing power but if you are gaming for the most performance dedicated PhysX processing is the best.  3) Out of game processing, eg code cracking, video rendering, image processing etc.  Might as well have more GPUs in the mix

Seems like it might be time to for another PhysX article.  I'll add that to my list of "when I have time" articles.

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