[jansan]

Interesting. What was the target group of these cards? Gamers or engineers and scientists?

[driscoll42]

Mostly gamers, here's a review from Arkham Asylum which showed how offloading PhysX to a GT 220 paired with a GTX 260 would help a fair bit with minimum and average FPS - https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/batman-arkham-asylum,24...

[the_pwner224]

This is from later (2012) but shows some of the effects that PhysX enables in games. The "apex turbulence" in the second half of the video is pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qhaEghJ74

[dagmx]

It started out initially for academic usecases till the costs came down and it was then pushed for games.