GTX 680 in 2018?

[freezingfire879]

I already have a GTX 1070 right now, but someone's offering a GTX 680 for $60 to me.  I'm pretty new to PC building and I would like to ask; would I get any improvement in performance from an added (really old) GPU, and also, should I buy it?

[Phentos]

In gaming there will be no improvement at all. 

 

I fail to see any clear scenario where the 680 in conjunction with a 1070 would improve anything tbh. Maybe GPU accelerated folding or mining on the 680 while gaming with the 1070 if it's possible. 

[JustMATT]

if you are asking about SLI, it wont work.... at all...

[freezingfire879]

Not SLI - I already knew that, but would there be any scenario where having a secondary graphics card could come in handy?

[M300843499]

680 is trash for 2018.

[S w a t s o n]

56 minutes ago, M300843499 said:

680 is trash for 2018.

No you.

680 is approx = to 1050ti with less vram.
The only use you can get out of it is as a physx card but physx is kind of dead, at least in the gpu dependant form. Usually runs on CPU now

[M300843499]

Just now, Swatson said:

No you.

680 is approx = to 1050ti with less vram.
The only use you can get out of it is as a physx card but physx is kind of dead, at least in the gpu dependant form. Usually runs on CPU now

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Was that a sad attempt at trying to insult me? LOL

 

680 is approximately dead in 2018 at 1080P resolution, too weak to push newer AAA games and 2GB is not enough even for high textures in a lot of newer games.

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Just now, M300843499 said:

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Was that a sad attempt at trying to insult me? LOL

 

680 is approximately dead in 2018 at 1080P resolution, too weak to push newer AAA games and 2GB is not enough even for high textures in a lot of newer games.

Why so serious?

The GTX 680 is not dead for 1080p gaming, unless medium textures "literally" burn your retinas. Not everyone is running top of the line hardware. It's useless to this guy because he has a 1070 though

[aisle9]

3 hours ago, freezingfire879 said:

Not SLI - I already knew that, but would there be any scenario where having a secondary graphics card could come in handy?

Cooking pizza.

[M300843499]

Just now, Swatson said:

Why so serious?

The GTX 680 is not dead for 1080p gaming, unless medium textures "literally" burn your retinas. Not everyone is running top of the line hardware. It's useless to this guy because he has a 1070 though

GTX 680 is not even really close to a 1050Ti By the way, in some games the 1050Ti bests a GTX 780 Ti.

 

 

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1 minute ago, M300843499 said:

GTX 680 is not even really close to a 1050Ti By the way, in some games the 1050Ti bests a GTX 780 Ti.

If you look at the clock speed of the 770 in that chart it's like 1ghz, most can run 1200-1300 no problem, even out of the box without turning up voltage. GTX 680 can definitely run with 1050ti, but the point is moot.

The card is only useful for physx but physx is dead.

[Princess Luna]

There is nothing you can do with a GTX 680 having a GTX 1070 in your system already.

[M300843499]

2 minutes ago, Swatson said:

If you look at the clock speed of the 770 in that chart it's like 1ghz, most can run 1200-1300 no problem, even out of the box without turning up voltage. GTX 680 can definitely run with 1050ti, but the point is moot.

The card is only useful for physx but physx is dead.

1050Ti can overclock too, and yes PhysX is dead also.

 

Good physics are great but not when they cost half your FPS to have it, wish Nvidia & AMD would partner to make gaming great again (physics)

 

 

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4 minutes ago, M300843499 said:

Good physics are great but not when they cost half your FPS to have it, wish Nvidia & AMD would partner to make gaming great again (physics)

Only dead in the GPU dependent form, it's integrated into many games but as the CPU form so that's vendor agnostic. Hopefully they can improve it to the point that the GPU simulation was at.