NVIDIA Responds To GPU PhysX Cheating Allegation

The crew at HotHardware is reporting on the recent GPU PhysX cheating allegations leveled against NVIDIA. They talk to several folks at NVIDIA, Epic Games and Futuremark in an attempt to shed a little more light on the situation. What do you guys think of this whole deal?

3DMark Vantage tested in "Performance" preset mode, with and without GPU PhysX enabled, on Core 2 Extreme QX6850 powered test system running Windows Vista Ultimate with the Forceware v177.39 graphics drivers and v8.06.12 PhysX drivers on a pair of GeForce 9800 GTX+ cards running in SLI mode. With GPU PhysX disabled, the overall 3DMark Vantage score is P11720 with a CPU Test 2 score of 14.95 FPS. With GPU PhysX enabled, the overall score jumps to P14298 with a CPU Test 2 score of 127.77 FPS.

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