Upgrading from 2 gtx680's to a gtx 1080, question...

[rnholland]

Ok I have a question in regards to actual gameplay when upgrading my graphics card. I have two old gtx 680's that still work, but I am upgrading to a gtx 1080 and I am wondering, and this might be hard for me to describe but here it goes. So if one person has the 2 680's and another person has the 1080 and they come around a corner in let's say battlefield, will the guy who has the 1080 actually visually see the person sooner on his monitor because his 1080 processed the info faster and updated his monitor quicker, hense the guy with the 1080 will see things "more real time" than the guy with the 680's. Does that even make sense? Lol but if it does, a response would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[stdragon]

The faster and more powerful the GPU, the more fluid the motion will be with reduced latency (delay). So yes, it will be easier to game on a better video card in comparison with a slower card.

 

[stdragon]

By the numbers, a single 1080 should beat two 680s in SLI.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=41&cmp%5B%5D=3502

 

[xvid678]

I understand your question, and it would make sense, but not on this case. It depends on some variants. For example: if you have a 60 hz monitor, both cards will do 60 FPS, so both players have the same FPS

Opposite example would be: both have 144hz monitor 1080, then, for example, 680s do 100 FPS and 1080 144FPS.therefore, the game is "faster" to the 1080 owner.

 

[King Dranzer]

What CPU are you pairing it with? Need more info on that.

GTX1180 is gonna launch in few months. I recommend waiting for it. GTX1180 is around 50% more powerful than GTX1080 on paper which is a huge jump.

 

[rnholland]

Hey thanks for the input peeps, I appreciate it. Ok here are my specs:

i7 4770K 4.2G
16G Corsair Dominator GT 2400Mhz
2 gtx 680's sli
Corsair 750W psu
27" 144hz, 1080p, 1ms response, asus monitor (and I plan on pegging 144 in 1080p)


I have already purchased the 1080, it will be here in 2 days.

But.... another thought came into mind from what you guys posted. Let's try this scenario. 2 people are gaming, one has a bad pc and the other a good pc that is way better than the bad guy, but they both get 144 fps. Would they perform equally just because they are getting the same fps or would the good pc dominate because of speed of the compontents?

And with the fast sync technology of the gtx 1080 that helps it sync up with your monitor, would you recommend me turning v-sync on now that it's should be close to being pegged at 144hz? Or will fast sync and v-sync not work together that well. What do you think? I was thinking turning v-sync on and run a few benchmarks to test the waters. Also with this fast sync technology, is this anything close to the performance you would see with the G-sync monitors? Are they even related?

Thank you for your input, helps a lot.

 

[King Dranzer]

Not bad. GTX1080 will do fine.

 

[stdragon]

Let's try this scenario. 2 people are gaming, one has a bad pc and the other a good pc that is way better than the bad guy, but they both get 144 fps. Would they perform equally just because they are getting the same fps or would the good pc dominate because of speed of the compontents?

If they both get 144 fps on average, then, on average they're both equally "good" PCs.

That all said however, there is something in benchmarking called 99th% percentile. Meaning that for 1% of the frame rate, there will be excessive stutter or hiccups. This can be caused by either the GPU, a slower CPU, or any of the following combinations. So, it's an important but often overlooked attribute.

https://developer.nvidia.com/content/analysing-stutter-%E2%80%93-mining-more-percentiles-0

Another thing that matters with both of these PCs are when playing online from two different locations is regarding both network and internet performance. Back in the day, an LPB (Low Ping B*****d) would more than often rule the roost with a low-end PC vs a high-end PC on a bad connection. There's other unaccounted externalities as well, but, that's a major one worth pointing out.

 

[TJ Hooker]

If two rigs are both getting 144 fps, neither would have a competitive advantage over the other regardless of internal components. At that point, the only things that could provide an advantage would be input response time of mouse/monitor, and network latency.

Fast sync is a form of v sync. It's essentially v sync with triple buffering.

 

[rnholland]

What about fast sync compared to G-sync monitors? Could you get the same results?

 

[TJ Hooker]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fast+sync+vs+g+sync