Hi
Which of these would be “more extreme” -
I5 with a 1080 graphics card
Or
17 with a 1070 graphic card
I can’t seem to get a straight answer. Your assistance would be appreciated.
Zwift is more graphic card driven than processor. There is not much of a difference between and I5 and I7 as far as Zwift is concerned so I would base the decision on the gpu.
I know there is a benchmark site for Zwift specs, but I don’t have the link. I know it has been posted on these forums before so you might be able to find it using the search. If it was the weekday Gerrie would post a link before I had a chance to finish this post.
The page Zwiftalizer 2.0 shows real world performance of various systems at different graphics setting.
Choice “A”. An i5 and GTX 1080 will all most always be a better choice for gaming.
Having sad that, if your primary “game” is Zwift, then a GTX 1070 would almost be overkill for Zwift as it is not too graphics intensive, so the i7 with GTX 1070 would be a much better “well rounded” system in my opinion.
If t were me, I would go for option #2 ;0)
Zwiftalizer benchmarks, for instance, show a
PC / Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.50GHz / Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
outperforming these three:
PC / Intel Core i7-6820HK @ 2.70GHz / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
PC / Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
PC / Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.80GHz / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
which however outperform a
PC / Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz / Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
(average frames per second at 2160 Ultra graphics)
Thanks All.
I can’t seem to get my head around zwiftalizer, looking at what you said though Steve lower end i5 with higher end video card will yield better results.