so we haven't looked into physx since like 2011 and for some pretty good
reasons actually but we'll get into that later looking back at the last physx
video we released we noticed quite the demand in the comment section for a
modern follow-up so we'll do that and try a bunch of different scenarios and
add some more information to the
pool Intel skull Canyon Nook features a six generation core i7 processor and
Thunderbolt 3 you can learn more at the link in the video
description so a few different questions will be raised and hopefully answered in
this video we're going to look at the full range of current 1000 series NVIDIA
Pascal gpus and how they perform while running alongside a physx focused
lower-end GPU we're going to try to find what is the best bang for your buck in
if you're shopping for a physx card and we're going to try to figure out roughly
if it's worth it to add your old card to your new system as a physx GPU or if you
should just sell it then last but not least we'll I'll just have some fun with
some ludicrous setups like 1080 with a 1080 physx card and that's insane so why
not in order to test all of these scenarios we needed some games our
chosen games were Assassin's Creed Black Flag Metro last Light Fallout 4 and
Batman Arkham Knight one of the most controversial releases of recent years
so right away with Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Fallout 4 it just seems
that having a physx card really doesn't do anything but Metro last Light does
show relatively minor increases across the board and then boom holy benchmarks
Batman out of nowhere like a thug in a dark alley maybe too soon it's been a
while the Batman benchmarks did show significant improvements with a
dedicated physx card and yeah let's dive
deeper we'll start with the GTX 106 we first paired it with the
gt730 now the gt730 is a really card if you're wondering why check out
this video when paired with this shitty card it lost five frames per second on
average rough when moving up to the 750 Ti however we saw an overall Improvement
of about 2.5 FPS not a huge gain but
it's something to work with stepping up a little bit to the 1070 we saw a
similar story but to more extremes with the 1030 as a physx card we saw a loss
of 11 FPS then with the 750 we saw a
gain of 5 FPS so cool again when looking
at the 1080 we saw extremes paired with the 730 it dropped almost 16 FPS with
the 750 it gained just over 5 FPS and
going up from there we seem to max out at a gain of about 6 to S even when the
dedicated card was just another 1080
which is crazy whoa okay so one of the
cool things here is all of of the particle effects that are just
everywhere the smoke the little Sparks there's a bunch of different stuff in
this scene and that's why this game benefits so much from fizx but as you
can see right now it's choppy it doesn't feel very good and that's because we're
running with the GTX 730 if you check out in the bottom corner here you can
see the utilization of both gpus the 730
is doing a lot of work but the 1080 is barely working at all the 1080 is GPU 1
the 730 is GPU 2 now with the 750 Ti you
can see it's much more smooth the particle effects are all running fine
it's not choppy anymore all that kind of good stuff and again we come down to the
corner you can see that the utilization of the first card is not being hampered
at all it's able to go full bore all the time which is why everything's much more
smooth the physics card is able to operate on its own and do everything it
needs to while not hampering the actual normal GPU and with that the sales of
GTX 750 Ti and 760's go through the
freaking roof NVIDIA mails us a check for $1 billion we buy 12 new office
buildings each for one of Linus' Lambos
and troll away into the night not so
fast little Lambo lonus not so fast there are like an embarrassingly low
amount of games that support physx and not that many come around the corner
that will either a hard sell for someone that could just flip their old graphic
card for more lunch money or avoid buying a physx card altogether so in the
end the answer is it's just not worth it unless you really
really like Batman games or for some other very intensely physx title and
there really aren't many of them so good
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