Replacing a 4090 with a 5090 - would it be worth it?

I agree, would have been great with a test in MSFS2020 and as for comparison to the 4090, he said he already sold his 4090 but did mention how he experienced an improvement but not a big one.

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Also, that test didn’t use DLSS 4 btw. Still, nice to see some early rtx5090 results.

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Just posting what i found online

My 4090 vs 5090 benchmark (VR) video: https://youtu.be/FxOb99XPARI?si=X6GPxSAJytJ_qWsD

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Thanks for this, but the VR fps was hard to read. From what I can make out the 5090 gets 7-9fps more than the 4090? If so, I may skip this gen and keep hold my 3090. We needed a video like this and you provided :saluting_face:

C0rsten, I’m curious about your graphic settings in VR - how medium/high/ultra were they. It would be really worth it if the 5090 with reduced settings as necessary could hold 72Hz for us Quest 3 users! Of course, it might be easier using MSFS2020 until the Devs optimize VR a little more in MSFS2024. In this case, even the small amount of increase might be enough. What I have also seen is that the “headroom” of the CPU is very small (how many milliseconds do you have? - 72FPS would require under 13.8 msec total). With my current older CPU, the GPU is already faster than the CPU and except for a really low TLOD, I can’t keep 40 FPS (or 36 with SSW).
Many thanks for the testing - later this year I will upgrade either to a 4090 or 5090 along with a 9800X3D probably.

Thanks for the compare! I assume you made sure to be GPU limited the whole time? Bit confused why our ran TLod so high since this kind of could work against that.

Also seemed like the uplift was such greater in 2D? Any idea why?

And have you also compared 2020 vs 2020?

Overall,would you say the upgrade was worth it? The DLS VR stats are currently making me think “probably not quite” :confused:

But the jump from 3090 would be huge! Would be a no brainer for me if I was on 3090.

I will do next video with msfs statistic bar or take screenshots. It was stutterfest with it when i tested.

My vr settings were in the beginning of the video.

What is OD?

Well 50/50 is it worth. It did only cost me 750e, because i was lucky to get mrsp priced 5090fe for 2450e and did sell my 4090 for 1700e.

I did not test msfs2020. Msfs2024 is my home now.

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20% - 28% upgrade as written in video info.

At the moment using Dlss 4 perfomance mode I can hold a steady 40fps on mostly high settings. I was hoping the 5090 would get 60 which would make me switch. Just the idea of spending 2k for the FE (if i can get one anyway!) something that can’t reach 60fps native puts me off.

People who sold their 4090 for high resale value is also worth it but I cant see my 3090 going for much now.

Hi, So I too researched this. I have an i9-14900k and a 4090. One needs to be mindful of the difference between the potential improvements on paper and in real world situations. On paper, (I use the sim in 4K), they are talking about roughly a 20% increase, but in real world performance (especially in 2024) we are looking at a 10% increase if we’re lucky. Obviously this isn’t a “one size fits all” situation, and depends also on the surrounding hardware in your rig. Considering all this, putting your 4090 aside and shelling out $2K is most certainly not worth it. If one is upgrading from a RTX 20 or 30 series, that might be a different story. Additionally, the above might change somewhat as drivers improve and updates are implemented in the sims.

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Sorry, autocorrect!

Meant why was TLOD so high. But I guess you were 100% GPU-limited anyway?

That’s a 50% performance boost you need, that should be easy going from 3090 to 5090. 4090 over 3080 was already about +80% or a bit more I believe, and 3090 only 10-12% faster than 3080.

Here in Oz, where our dollar is sliding against the USD, it just makes no sense upgrading, even if I were to get a good price on my 4090.

The cheapest 5090 here currently runs at around $4,040 AUD or $2,533 USD.

The Asus TUF OC is a ridiculous $5,000 in Oz, or $3,136 USD (I currently have an Asus TUF OC 4090, the only 4090 I could get close to release date. It was over $2,000 AUD cheaper than the OC 5090).

Of course no 5090s are available here anyway.

No way I’m shelling out that much for 10 fps on a game that’s as buggy as hell anyway. A few tweaks can make up for that, so Nvidia can (insert suggestion here) their 5090.

PC Case Gear price list for 5090s in Oz:

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With about +30% it would’ve been worth it for me to move from 45fps to 60fps locked at same settings in high res VR. But as it stands those DLSS numbers look pretty terrible with 22%. Wonder if it scales any better at higher resolutions since Corsten is only running about 3200x with DLSS.

Wonder why there is such a discrepancy between TAA and DLSS in general.

EDIT: I guess the worse DLSS numbers are explained by the lower rendering resolution. The higher the res, the higher the relative gain.

Currently, I can just drop the res by 300ish on my Crystal from 4,312 x 5102 using DLSS4 and get 5090 performance, with a barely noticeable drop in clarity.

Thanks for the video!

I’d be curious to see Pimax render resolutions in TAA/DLSS.

Also, isn’t there some streaming performance loss for the Quest?

Yes there is loss, but image clarity is great.