One 1080 vs 2 1070's

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Would 1 1080 be better or would 2 1070's when SLI works properly, and when it doesn't use one 1070 for PhysX? (so 1080 vs 1070 SLI or 1080 vs 1070 + 1070 PhysX)

[Likwid]

maybe buy gtx 1070 and upgrade to intel i5 or i7

[DioOmicida]

Get the single 1080.

[Commander Llama]

I expect 1070SLI would beat 1080 soundly, but of course you would hope that since the pair will be more expensive...

 

If the SLI drivers aren't up to snuff though, 1080 will probably win out.

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7 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

 

No... Fuck no. Don't use a single 1070 for PhysX. That's a waste of a 1070.

 

We don't know the performance of a 1070 yet, so nobody can say. I expect that the dual 1070s will thrash a 1080. Plus 2 card SLI isn't that bad. Regardless, wait to see performance numbers.

[Anarchyz11]

If your build info is correct, the money would be better spent on an i5 or i7.  1080p will get absolutely shredded by a single 1070 as is, but with an 8320 you'll still experience drops in processor intensive scenarios.  

[SPAS-ID]

i would say getting a single LaFerrari is better than having a two Veyron that tied up to each other

[TubsAlwaysWins]

16 minutes ago, Likwid said:

maybe buy gtx 1070 and upgrade to intel i5 or i7

Well first im going skylake and then later down the road im getting either a 1070 or 1080 (unless AMD offers something better)

[TubsAlwaysWins]

8 minutes ago, Anarchyz11 said:

If your build info is correct, the money would be better spent on an i5 or i7.  1080p will get absolutely shredded by a single 1070 as is, but with an 8320 you'll still experience drops in processor intensive scenarios.  

 

13 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

No... Fuck no. Don't use a single 1070 for PhysX. That's a waste of a 1070.

 

We don't know the performance of a 1070 yet, so nobody can say. I expect that the dual 1070s will thrash a 1080. Plus 2 card SLI isn't that bad. Regardless, wait to see performance numbers.

What im trying to say is that if i have 2 1070's and SLI doesn't work well in a certain game would a 1070 beat a 1080 if I had my other 1070 doing PhysX, giving my first 1070 more power to render

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2 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

 

No. Using a physx card does almost nothing, when it doesn't decrease performance.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

No.

Ok

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Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Ok

I edited that response to have a better explanation. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

I edited that response to have a better explanation. 

Ok thanks

[typographie]

50 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Would 1 1080 be better or would 2 1070's when SLI works properly, and when it doesn't use one 1070 for PhysX? (so 1080 vs 1070 SLI or 1080 vs 1070 + 1070 PhysX)

Generally speaking, games with PhysX support are the same games that have the best SLI support. Nvidia's technologies seem to come in a package. It's not likely you're going to encounter a game that offers PhysX but can't use SLI.

[BrightCandle]

I suspect price/performance will favour 1070 SLI just like it did in the 970 v 980 world as well even with 1070's reduced comparative performance. It wont be quite as good a deal as 970 because the cards are quite a bit more expensive and the gap from the 1070 to 1080 is relatively larger than the 970 was to the 980.

 

I am not convinced the 1070/1080 are good value. No doubt they are fast but the pricing is not the same as the 970/980 was, its more like 980/980 ti like performance for a small die GPU. This is a 314mm^2 die, its tiny in comparison to the 394mm^2 of the 980, but despite its small size its a lot more expensive.

[Delicieuxz]

I think it'd be better to get one 1080, then maybe in a year get another 1080 for a cheaper price.

[Simon771]

So you said that first you will upgrade to i5 or i7 and wait with GPU for a while. So that's kinda good, and you might wait for Polaris to be released. I don't think Polaris will bring anything good for performance, but rather just less power draw for cheaper price.

But still, prices of GTX 1070 will drop by then, or at least get to some stable point.

 

But for now focus on i5 or i7. Are you thinking about 6 core CPU like i7 5820k? If so, I would recomend you to wait for i7 6800k.

If that's not in your budget, go for i7 6700k or i5 6600k.

[jjohnthedon1]

Get a new CPU 

i5 skylake mombo ram and 1 1070