Installation
Install was easy.
Ran DDU prior to initial power up of GPU.
PC booted fine with default MS driver.
Ran “Intel-Driver-and-Support-Assistant-Installer.exe” to install the driver and Intel Graphics Control Panel.
Flying WT CJ4
Graphics are wonderful and WT CJ4 handles very smoothly.
4K Ultra with TLoD=4 & OLoD=9 provides a FPS of mid 20s which I expected.
The factor that interested me the most is the 16 GB of VRAM.
It is running with 90% VRAM (15 GB) and CPU usage at around 10% (i9-9900K).
I was curious and checked and found that my 1080 has a higher speed rank (though it does not support some of the newer features) than this card. I am excited Intel is in the game now and look forward to them launching their first high end card, if they decide to. For folks on pre-1080-level cards though, this is a very fairly priced upgrade given that even old nvidia cards are still overpriced. Also nice to know this card is silent, my 1080 is LOUD when running MSFS
This is good information! Have you experienced any crashes so far, either inside the simulator, or outside in other apps? I ask because the driver seems to be the primary reason why most steer clear of a new card. It would be interesting to learn the performance with Intel’s Xess, if that can be employed in MSFS yet (it wasn’t clear to me if it can be used for applications that do not, as yet, support its full capabilities).
No crashes inside FS2020. outside or PC or other apps.
Win11 22H2, Chrome Browser, Office 365, Word & Excel.
Don’t know about Xess yet. There is no option in FS2020 to select it yet.
A warning screen displays when FS2020 starts that states:
“This PC is not suitable for …”
It expects either a Nvidia or AMD graphics card.
Click it and it goes away. FS2020 starts.
Here is the GPUZ statistics for this GPU on my PC.
Results of VRAM usage for the A770 16 GB.
Edited on 11/01/2020 with an update for 747-800 & A320neo.
Edited on 11/02/2022 with new data and format
Edited on 11/05/2022 with Youtube video of IFR/ILS flight in the WTCJ4
Edited on 11/15/2022 - SU11 with A310 added
Just one thing … wouldn’t you be better off with a PCIe-4.0 cpu (and mainboard)?
Don’t panic, I doubt there’s that much difference except for benchmarking.
The issue deals with the PCIe on the motherboard.
The motherboard hardware and BIOS must support the Re-Bar feature.
My Gigabyte Z390 MB needed a BIOS update for Re-Bar.
The BIOS then has the 4G something that must be enabled and then you can enable the Re-Bar feature.
Re-Bar has to do with transferring data in large blocks from
the CPU to the GPU.
Intel stated their restriction to Intel 10th & 11 gen systems
because they had the Re-Bar feature available on those MBs.
Intel also requested the MB vendors to issue new BIOS to older MBs if possible .
Sorry as I was simplifying I meant 9th gen CPU’s and their main-boards.
It is quite odd that Intel excluded 9th generation platform in general as most Z390 boards have a R-BAR and 4G with a bios update … as I have said before … this has in the past never stopped Intel with an asterisk of sorts on a release as in requiring an update for ReBAR and 4G
BTW totally dig you walking the off path and rocking an A770
It’s a shocking experience on the ground.
You maybe enjoy it, be happy with the performance and that’s fine.
But the low fps looks like a fast slide show to me.
Exactly the same thoughts here. I have three 1080p monitors and get 24-25 fps at mostly low settings. What you’re getting would be a very significant improvement. The fps is sufficient for a flight sim and allows one to fly without problems as you show in your videos. I would be willing to accept slightly lower graphics settings than what you’ve reported to boost fps to 30, which is without question enough for a flight sim.
