NVIDIA has purposefully de-optimized its PhysX realtime physics engine when it is run on the CPU, according to research carried out by Real World Tech. The article goes on to claim that NVIDIA makes ...

About four months ago, we covered the latest round of shin-kicking between ATI and NVIDIA, with ATI claiming that NVIDIA purposefully crippled CPU performance when running PhysX code and coerced ...

A new investigation by David Kanter at Realworldtech adds to the pile of circumstantial evidence that NVIDIA has apparently crippled the performance of CPUs on its popular, cross-platform physics ...

Oh well duh the x87 is the numeric coprocessor. I should have known that shouldn't have I. I was thinking it was an evolution of the x86 chipset. Ha ha look at me, the forum idiot. No really thanks ...