NVIDIA and Havok demonstrate the world’s first GPU-powered game physics at GDC, giving competition to PhysX’s solution for physics in games. This should usher in a new trend with games in the future that puts a more heavy emphasis on realistic physics, and possibly new avenues of fun gameplay mechanics.

The result of an ongoing engineering collaboration between Havok and NVIDIA, this new software product from Havok — called Havok FX(TM) — enables the simulation of dramatically-detailed physical phenomena in PC games, when powered by GPUs such as NVIDIA GeForce®7 or 6 Series GPUs and further amplified with NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology. The Havok FX product is currently in early release to select developers and is expected to be available this summer.