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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Dan Mateescu

We tested supercharging the RTX 5090 in PhysX games using an RTX 5060 as a secondary GPU — SLI may be dead, but how much can dual GPUs boost performance in classic PhysX titles?

RTX 5080 and RTX 3080 Founder's Edition on a desk.

Today, we're testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to boost the performance of an RTX 5090 in a few classic Batman Arkham titles that support 32-bit PhysX, and with impressive results. Sure, these results aren't going to be broadly applicable to all titles and configurations, or even entirely practical, but we're doing this for science, and we generated some interesting benchmarks to chew over.

Back in 2001, Swiss company NovodeX AG developed a physics simulation engine called NovodeX. Just 3 years later, NovodeX AG was acquired by Ageia, a fabless semiconductor company, which began development on hardware-accelerated physics technology. Ageia called this technology PhysX.

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