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No. Physx is a physics generation platform that devs can add into games to create physically realistic environmental interactions. It creates graphical effects like whirling smoke, rippling cloth, particles, destructible terrain and so forth, where normally it would appear static. Your CPU can't do any Physx processing, it's purely a GPU activity - mainly because it's proprietary to Nvidia so it's a selling point for them.

What is known today as PhysX originated as a physics simulation engine called NovodeX. The multi-threaded engine was developed by Swiss company NovodeX AG. In 2004, Ageia acquired NovodeX AG and began developing a hardware technology that could accelerate physics calculations, aiding the CPU. Ageia called the technology PhysX PPU (physics processing unit), and the SDK was renamed from NovodeX to PhysX.[8]

In 2008, Ageia was itself acquired by graphics technology manufacturer Nvidia. Nvidia started enabling PhysX hardware acceleration on its line of GeForce graphics cards[9] and eventually dropped support for Ageia PPUs