Nvidia GameWorks is amiddlewaresoftware suite developed byNvidia.^[1] The Visual FX, PhysX, and Optix SDKs provide a wide range of enhancements pre-optimized for NvidiaGPUs.^[2] GameWorks is partiallyopen-source.^[3]

The competing solution being in development by AMD isGPUOpen, which was announced to befree andopen-source software under theMIT License.

Nvidia Gameworks consists of several main components:

• VisualFX: For rendering effects such as smoke, fire, water, depth of field, soft shadows, HBAO+, TXAA, FaceWorks, and HairWorks.
• PhysX: For physics, destruction, particle and fluid simulations.
• OptiX: For baked lighting and general-purpose ray-tracing.
• Core SDK: For facilitating development on Nvidia hardware.

In addition, the suite contains sample code forDirectX andOpenGL developers, as well as tools for debugging, profiling, optimization, andAndroid development.

• PhysX
• GPUOpen
• TressFX
• Havok (software)

• Nvidia GameWorks

• Free and open-source software
• Middleware for video games
• Nvidia software
• Video game development software

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