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NVIDIA® Application Acceleration Engines

NVIDIA® application acceleration engines are highly optimized software modules enabling developers to take maximum advantage of the GPU with valuable, high performance capabilities that are license free to develop with and deploy.

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 can 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 have particular synergy with Quadro graphics solutions, taking full advantage of the industry leading functionality found there.

 
NVSG Archives NVIDIA® SceniX™ scene management engine
The interactive core powering many of today’s most demanding professional real-time 3D graphics applications.
version 5

NVIDIA® CompleX™ scene scaling engine
Expanding interactive possibilities for massive data sets

version 1.5
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NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine
Bringing interactive realism to 3D experiences and incredible speed and precision to physical simulation

version 1.0
Available Now!
OptiX-Icon CgFX Runtime and CG Toolkit
The cross platform shading language for adding cutting edge interactive effects to realtime applications
version 2.2

NVIDIA® PhysX™ 64-bit physics engine
the 64-bit version of the widely adopted, real-time physics solution

not yet released

 

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