Well I’m very excited. Managed to get through on Best Buy this morning and snag an order for the new Nvidia 3060 ti graphics card. Boy, it was a ■■■■ shoot. Waiting around almost an hour after the scheduled release time, finally the card order page showed something other than “Coming Soon”. After a few failed attempts and thinking I didn’t get through or I’d have to pick it up in a different state, suddenly a store in Phoenix opened up and my order went through. I have to wait til next Thursday to pick it up but at least I’m not driving to California to do it. It will certainly be an improvement over my AMD RX580 although it’s been a marvelous card for years. I’ll let everyone know how it handles MSFS once I get it installed.
Only wish it was not so expensive.
You can buy it for around 750$US in my country.
We are used to expensive computer parts but this is too much.
It was $399 or I’d have not bought it. I’m sure that now that the scalpers descended, the prices have spiked.
I got the Galax 3060 Ti EX today from an offline dealership. Costed me around $540 here in India.
Yes, computer components cost a lot more outside US, South Korea and Taiwan.
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OK, so finally my new 3060 ti card arrived, weeks after I ordered it from Best Buy and I got it installed yesterday, and as far as MSFS goes, it’s a real disappointment. While I have observed a change where the info screen is now showing my GPU is no longer the bottleneck, there is simply a constant indicator that main thread is limiting and I don’t have a slouch processor (Ryzen 7 3700X). My computer just breezes through almost any other game I play including ones like Red Dead Redemption II. I’ve done some overclocking of my motherboard last night and will try FS again today to see if it’s improved any. Now all this said my tests were over NYC on Ultra 1080 and there really wasn’t any noticeable stuttering in spite of abysmal looking frame rates. Maybe I should just enjoy the flying and forget about this frame rate BS.
Well a further update. Discovered the world of overclocking my processor and memory and what a difference. Still CPU limited but my new graphics card is obviously being utilized much better now and see a sizeable increase in FPS (with the abysmal numbers in the low teens any increase is great) That said I’m pushing FS to the limits with the testing. NYC is a great test with all the rendering that happens. Bottom line though is I can fly very smoothly now.
I’m curious though now how my old card (RX380) would have done had I done this overclocking earlier. Because I’m doing this now I truly don’t have a baseline to compare to.
I’ve got a new Ryzen 5600X to use together with a (new as well) 3060 Ti. 16Gb and SSD. 144hz 2560 x 1440 monitor.
Any ideas what I can achive in performane (taking suggestions of settings), and also how much can I (and how?) OC my CPU and GPU - if needed? Ive heard there is hardly no point trying to OC the 5600X and the 3060 Ti. Is that correct?