New PC setup for MSFS 2024 - Graphics card decission

I think those GPU’s are comparable, and both are well suited to this sim.

The questions are:

  1. Can the AMD drivers be trusted to have the same stability that nVidia drivers have shown? History is not in their favor, but it appears they’ve greatly improved things recently.

  2. Do you need 20GB VRAM? Some might say more is always better. On the other hand, only VR users seems to be pushing VRAM to the limit. With your budget I think VR may be off the table - for now. Driving a 4K and a 2K monitor, and running the sim at Ultra/High settings, I’ve never seen over 12GB VRAM usage. But that’s just me (I don’t fly complex, high-polygon airliners.)

  3. Do you think the sim will eventually support AMD’s frame gen natively, the way they support nVidia’s? Does that matter to you? My 3090 Ti does not do frame gen, and I don’t think I would use it if it did. I’m happy with the FPS I get from my system, and from what I’ve read, frame gen introduces some visual fidelity issues I’d rather avoid.

In short, if I was looking to buy a new GPU today, I’d buy whichever one of those I could find for the best Black Friday price, and be happy going forward. If they were the same price I’d pick the 4070 Ti Super, mostly because I’ve had a very good experience with my nVidia card.

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