NVIDIA® Application Acceleration Engines

NVIDIA® Application Acceleration Engines are highly optimized software modules enabling developers to take maximum and swift advantage of the GPU with valuable, high performance capabilities that are free to acquire, license, integrate and deploy within their applications.

NVIDIA is committed to ensuring engines continue advancing to take maximum advantage of the latest NVIDIA GPU innovations while also maintaining their leading-edge capabilities. Applications employing acceleration engines rapidly exploit GPU advancements as consistent engine APIs evolve to leverage new methods. In doing so, NVIDIA is empowering developers to deliver the latest capabilities to their users in the shortest amount of time.

Acceleration Engines for Professional Applications

The following acceleration engines are designed for the demanding needs of professional applications and often have particular synergy with Quadro graphics solutions.


	NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine The world's fastest ray tracing pipeline for building and accelerating ray tracing applications just got even faster, whle breaking through the GPU memory limit and supporting any number of textures. Utilizing a single ray programming model, state-of-the-art acceleration structures, and multi-GPU management, OptiX™ provides a fast route to application acceleration, allowing developers to concentrate on their custom techniques.	version 2.5 download
	NVIDIA® SceniX™ scene management engine The fastest start for building a modern, high performance, real-time 3D system. A highly flexible rendering framework makes SceniX an ideal choice whenever there's a need to analyze 3D data, make decisions, and convey results in real-time and at the highest fidelity possible.	version 7.2 download
	NVIDIA® CompleX™ scene scaling engine The solution for keeping massive data interactive as graphics memory is exceeded by managing the distribution of geometry across GPUs and seamlessly compositing the result for fluid interaction. Superior compositing performance when managing multiple GPUs for large displays, independent of data distribution.	version 1.5 download
	Cg Toolkit and CgFX Runtime The cross platform shading language for adding cutting edge effects to real-time applications, with a flexible effects format and hardware profiles to maximize graphics possibilities across the widest range of graphics hardware.	version 3.1 download
	NVIDIA PhysX 64-bit physics engine The 64-bit version of the widely adopted, real-time physics solution, with APEX modules for adding artist-friendly features for highly interactive, GPU-accelerated capabilities such as Cloth and Fluids.