Physics card

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A physics card is an expansion card for computers, similar to a graphics card but which is used to process physics interactions as opposed to graphics. By taking over the processing of these effects, the CPU can use more of its power for other tasks. A physics card is centered around a physics processing unit, similar to the graphics processing unit on a graphics card, and also contains RAM for use in its processes. The first physics card created was the PhysX by AGEIA, released in 2006.