Let me start by making a bold statement: Having to Strong Hardware might decrease your FS2020 experience !
I was due for a new machine in the beginning of the year and so i created a new gaming rig with the sole intent of having the best FS2020 experience possible. FS2020 was not out yet but i did know from passed flightsims that i was a big resource eater. So i constructed the Following setup:
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER recently upgraded to RTX 3090
Motherboard ASUS ROG X570-F
RAM G.Skill F4-4400C19 DDR4 running at 3600Mhz with a total of 32GB
DISK FireCuda 520 SSD
My performance ranges about 20 - 32 FPS. Gaming at 2K and Ultra settings?
So is this maxed out? Is this what is currently possible? On top of this my game crashes from time to time not giving a proper error message.
Now the question is do i have to wait until the software development is at a more mature state or did i configure something completly wrong? I got the feeling people with lower end setups get more performance because they have less cpu cores… but those cores run ata higher rate… thus supporting my bold claim from the begining.
Share your thoughts! With kind regards… michael
I short; yes, you picked the wrong CPU. But more on a cost factor than performance.
No games or sims will be able to fully utilize that beast of a CPU. It’s more optimized for stuff like tile based renderers, where all tasks running on the different cores don’t need to be kept in sync.
The thing that might hold it back a bit is that the cores are on separate CCX’s. Communication between the CCX’s will cause some latency.
It shouldn’t be too big of a hit though, certainly not enough to have a large performance deficit.
It’s a great CPU, just not really designed for the sort of workload you’re throwing it. It’s overkill. So maybe a bit of a waste of money, but shouldn’t do noticeably worse than say a 3600 or 3800.
Edit: to add to this; if you’re only running on 1440P, you’re basically not utilizing that 3090. It’s meant to be used at 4K. You’re most likely only seeing it run at 50%? Complete overkill for 1440P.
@MortThe2nd
Yes ive notices two things. GPU running at 50% and CPU running at 10-15% most.
Is it likely that the engine will ever use the CPU power? I think my only option right now is to try to overclock so that every single core runns higher…that seems to have the biggest impact.
Yep, pretty much. The 3950X is a 16 core / 32 thread beast of a CPU. It’s not likely you’ll ever see that utilized in any game or sim. Increasing the single core performance can help with the limitations on the main thread.
You could also try turning off Hyperthreading/SMT (disabling 16 threads) in the BIOS, but that will hamper you in productivity workloads. If you’re mostly gaming/simming it might give a small performance boost though.
I guess they have to change to directx 12 to have a more appeal to the current cpu market
DX12 is not going to make any big noticeable impact on CPU utilization. Might give a small increase, but it’s mostly going to give some more graphical fidelity.
In other words, don’t get a flagship CPU for the sake of having a flagship CPU. It’s designed to be used for a different purpose.
Well, ive enabled Game Mode on my 3950 and it helped somewhat with the stabiltiy. I guess one of the main topics in these performance discussions is being missed out. FPS ist almost irrelevant over 30FPS the main topic is system latency. If all components work fast together CPU RAM GPU … a smother gameplay is created… and this is whats it all about.
You need fast RAM good Single Threading performacne and a GPU with a GPU RAM of the size of an hard drive to run at high quality and smooth.
I belive i found a level that is suficcient for me. Im between 25-60 FPS depending on the situation… but the most important thing that got turned off are the dropped frames…