There seems to be some interest in this subject, so I thought I’d give you an honest report. I have an RTX4070ti graphics card and run MSFS2020 on a 36" 2:1 monitor. I used to have a Ryzen 7 5800X with 32GB 2600mhz ram and the same graphics card and I was able to run about 50% of the settings in Ultra, the rest in High, and processor intensitve settings such as ground object detail at about 50% on the slider. I was getting stuttering when I would land at an a city airport. Mountains were smooth, but cities were rough.
Yesterday I installed a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32 GB 6000mhz ram and the same graphics card and, well… wow. I have everything maxed out. Every slider all the way to the right, every setting to Ultra. Smooth as glass even in down town Chicago. It is a HUGE upgrade. Mine is bone stock, not overclocked (the GPU or the CPU), with no performance boosting of any kind. My early impressions are it was well worth the money.
Depends where you are, in the UK, in-store PC component buying isn’t really a thing. All the retailers over here have pre-orders only, and even then the stock doesn’t arrive until 15th November at earliest.
Thanks for the hint. Their website is saying “PreOrder” but then drilling down 10+ in stock at most B.C. stores. If still in stock after the weekend, one will be mine.
Tried the new AMD 9800x3d with mixed results on my part. Aorus x670e board. Was running AMD 7950x3d 4090 video card and 64 gigs of ram.
The new chip definitely runs cooler than the 7950x3d and probably because it has half of the cores.
Frame rates in 4k were mid 80’s at the end of Runway 16 at KADS. No weather and time round 10:00 AM.
In Turbo mode the frame rate increased to mid 90’s.
In VR the FPS were within a frame or two running Turbo or None turbo.
VR Framerates on 7950 were comparable. In non vr about 5 or 6 less in Turbo and non Turbo.
For me I did not see enough of a differerence to justify the cost so the chip is going back to Micro Center tomorrow. Maybe the 9950x3d will do better. Who knows?
I managed to score a 9800X3D on the day of release, although I won’t actually get it until next week. I’m expecting to see a nice boost in worst case FPS in MSFS that I get when flying in VR where my system is always CPU limited. While MSFS 2024 performance is still TBD, a 9800X3D should be a solid opening position for the new sim.
Thanks for the information! I wonder if the small difference could be related to the gpu being the bottleneck in this case, can you tell if this is the case?
I’m running mine at 3440 X 1440, DLSS Super Resolution, performance mode, DLSS on, Fidelity sharpening 200%. DX12, everything else maxed out except motion blur- I can’t stand motion blur. lol
I was flying my little RV-12 (I think) around Fiji at about 200 feet last night smooth as glass. It jerked like crazy with my old setup because of all the little resort shacks that stick out into the water- with the detail all the way up, it would stutter like crazy with my old processor. No issues at all now.
Oh- if you are running a Ryzen 7000 platform, I don’t think it would be worth the upgrade, by the way. Remember, on Wednesday of this week, the Ryzen 7 7800X3d was still the king of gaming CPUs by a pretty substantial margin. The 9800X3D is only 8-12% faster, depending on which youtube reviewer you watch. I upgraded because my 5800X (no V-cache) was at its limits and was driving me crazy sometimes when I land at a city airport. I would recommend this upgrade if you are using a 5000 series CPU, but not a 7000.
Of course, if your GPU isn’t up to the game, you are still going to see issues. Like I said before, with my 4070ti card and my old CPU, I could run all of the GPU oreinted graphics settings to mostly Ultra, and never below High. It was only the CPU oriented graphics settings such as Objects Level of Detail and Terrain Level of Detail that gave me problems. My 5800X was running at 100% all of the time, my cooling system was 100% all of the time, and it was still stuttering. With my upgrade, the most I saw the processor go up to was 70% very briefly, like maybe for a second, but mostly is 50-60% when flying in the weeds over detailed terrain. My old graphics settings were about 40% on the slider, and now are maxed all the way and still only task the CPU at 50%, for the most part.
My point is, if your GPU isn’t fairly current, the CPU upgrade probably won’t help on some things, but if you are running an older CPU, the 9800X3D is worth looking at.
Currently running 5800x3D, RTX 4080 and 32GB RAM.
Want to make the jump to AM5 when RTX 5xxx series arrive. Eying on the 9800x3D with 5080 or preferably 5090.
Well if the significant (>50%) jump in previously CPU-limited areas VR performance I experienced going from a similar 10850K to a 5800X3D is anything to go by, and the jump from 5800X3D to 9800X3D is expected to net another 25-50% boost in MSFS performance in similar areas, then the likely answer is yes, absolutely.
interesting. Thanks.
I’m also running a 7950X3D currently and was wondering if it’s worth the upgrade. Especially since I have seversl applications that make good use of the 8 additional cores.
I guess with MSFS2024 making better use of the X3D cores I will stick with the older CPU for the time being
