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so we haven't looked into physics since like 2011 and for some pretty good reasons Ashley but we'll get into that later looking back at the last physics 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 6th 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 physics 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 physics GPU or if you should just sell it then last but not least well I'll just have some fun with some ludicrous setups like 1080 with the 1080 physics card and that's insane so why not in order to test all of these scenarios we needed some games are chosen games where Assassin's Creed Black Flag Metro last light fallout 4 in 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 physics card really doesn't do anything but Metro last light does show relatively minor increases across the board and that 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 a gtx 1060 we first paired it with the GT 730 now the GT 730 is a really card if you're wondering why check out this video when paired with this shitty card lost 5 frames per second on average ruff we're moving up to the Sun 50 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 two more extremes with the 1030 as a physics card we saw a loss of 11 FPS than 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 at dropped almost 16 FPS the Sun 50 it gained just over 5 FPS and going up from there we seemed to max out at a gain of about 6 to 7 even when the dedicated card was just another 1080 which is crazy whoa okay so one of the cool things here is all 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 physics 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 one the 7:30 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 750ti is in 760 s go through the freaking roof nvidia mails us a check for 1 billion dollars we buy 12 new office buildings each for one of Linus's Lambos and troll away into the night not so fast little Lambo - not so fast there are like an embarrassingly low amount of games that support physics and not that many come here on the corner that will either a hard sell for someone that could just flip their old graphics card for more lunch money or avoid buying a physics 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 physics title and there really aren't many of them so good luck if you like this video like it and get subscribed if you dislike this video and you're like dude don't make a thug's in an alley joke and that's just rude dislike it if you want a shirt or any of the things that you saw us use like graphics cards in this video you can show links of your description below including Amazon you want to see another video that we've released check out this one on why SLI is crazy right now like what the hell is going on with SLI because it's nuts directx12 who knows