So I’m thinking about getting a new rig to give me higher FPS. I currently have a gaming laptop with an RTX2060M and am getting okay(ish) frame rates at around 15-25fps. This varies obviously depending on where I’m flying. For example flying in or around LAX I’m o on getting around 10-15. Have all setting on Medium so it’s not so bad, especially for a gaming laptop. After reviewing my stats over time I see that my GPU is the bottleneck currently running at 90% where everything else is 50-60%.
So I’m bow looking into getting a desktop PC with an RTX3080 or RTX3070. Before spending so much on a new rig I want to be sure i will notice a big difference. According to User Benchmark comparing the GPU I currently have to the RTX3080 there is a 185% speed difference.
My question is “Can I expect to see at least double the frame rates I currently get?”
I know there are a lot of other variables to this question. But just based on GPU alone would you be able to notice a big difference in performance?
I know Xbox can be a dirty word on here, but it can also be an option, I’m not sure if running the one screen will do you, and I know we are short on what peripherals will work at this stage, but I’m presuming it will be pretty stable on the Xbox. I was thinking about this option myself so I could keep MSFS separate from my work station, but no multi monitor support stopped me when the full specs came out.
My question is “Can I expect to see at least double the frame rates I currently get?”
With a latest generation AMD / Intel CPU and a 3080 (waiting for the new models is wiser) and depending on the resolution used, we can claim a good framerate between 45/60 FPS in ULTRA setting. This is the case for me, I currently have a 2080 Ti with a 5950x and 32 GB of ram.
It all depends on your budget.
On my old pc with an I7 2600K, 1660 Ti, I was at 25/40 FPS in HIGH setting, if that helps give you an idea.
So no need to spend a lot to have a good end result.
I’m on 10700k currently oc to 4.9 all cores, 32GB 3600Mhz ram, 2070s oc, NVME SSD and I can confirm that at Heathrow London I have 40-45 on ground and 45 - 55 in air over London on high end settings @ 1080p.
I have to tell you that one invaluable lesson I learned from a Windows guru (NickN from simforums.com) was that Microsoft Flight Simulator is more heavily dependent upon CPU usage than GPU. That is because the calculations a processor has to make in order to accurately simulate flight.
All that to say, when I decided to delve into MSFS 2020, I decided to invest heavily in CPU. Quite consistently, I average in high 40’s and high 50’s in frame rates. No exaggeration here. Even over Manhatten I remain around 40. And yes, scenery settings are set to ultra
All that with a “measly” GTX 2070 Super. And with an i9 10900 CPU. And that’s the one that doesn’t overclock. I added 2tb SSD because data space and speed matters with flight simulation. I have flown every Microsoft Flight Simulator since Windows 95, and was sick and tired of trying to squeeze every precious frame out of my pc. This combination has proven to be my silver bullet so far. Now—I am not trying to do this on a 4k monitor, but I am using a gaming monitor. After all these years, I’m one happy boy with my flight sim!
I wouldn’t focus just on GPU. Get a really high GHz CPU with at least 6 cores. (I say high ghz as it doesn’t use all the cores that effectively yet.) M2 NVMe Hard drive and 32GB of memory.