PhysX question

Hardware GPU
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Okay, I'm currently using a GTX 780 Ti, and have said previously (Even on the forum) that it's a quick card and I don't really need to upgrade. Well.... The upgrade bug hit me last night and, well.... I need more FPS's. It's official guys. The upgrade bug is real.

So, I was wondering, to save having to sell the 780 Ti, would it be worth using a 980 Ti with the 'old' 780 Ti as a dedicated PhysX card?

I'm not 100% set on buying, but it's just if anyone has any experience of high-end cards and PhysX configurations, their input would be a huge help :)

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780ti is overkill for a physx card, sell it and get a 750ti instead.
780ti's idle is about as high as a 750ti under max load.
Or just don't upgrade at all, since you're not going to see that much of a difference regardless.
Next year you're going to see a huge jump compared to the last 3.

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With the amount of gameworks/physx in games like The Witcher 3 and Killing Floor 2 I don't think a 750 Ti would be enough; a 980 Ti would probably do better on it's own. A 780 Ti would probably help a ton in Gameworks/physx heavy games like the aforementioned ones.

I'm upgrading to a 980 Ti today or tomorrow and I have two 760s. I'll be popping the 760 in as a gameworks/physx card; I'll get back to you with benchmarks, maybe that'll help you make a decision.

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plot twist, witcher 3 doesn't use GPU physx at all.

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What? Do you not know that it uses gameworks hair and various other effects?


And here's KF2's Gameworks Gore

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Yeah, it does use physx, but it doesn't run on the GPU regardless of what you do.

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What are you talking about? Have you never used Nvidia control panel before? @thelonewanderer

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You don't understand, the game literally doesn't support GPU physx.
It is only going to run on the CPU.

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Care to explain or cite something? @thelonewanderer

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Brilliant, thanks. Thought I was being a bit over kill with using that, was just to save the potential of selling the 780 Ti if I do eventually get the 980 Ti.

Also, the energy isn't too much of a worry, living with parents and got a 750W PSU, so the thing is good for another card easily.

If you don't mind me asking, what's happening next year? (Been a bit out of touch since the Fury X launch and not really watching rumor sites)

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Just get a Matrox gpu

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New node, we are skipping 20nm and going straight to 16.
And HBM 2.0 is coming with 16-32GB cards, 1 terrabyte read write memory speeds as well.

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Do you mean terabit read/write or actual terabyte?

Also, just checked my work (lack of) schedule, turns out I won't be able to get a 980 ti.

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980ti isn't that much better than a 780ti anyway.
1000gb read write speed on the memory.