I dispute that although I think the difference is far more noticeable for low and slow flyers. I was getting small freezes and microstutters before switching from SSD to NVMe especially over large cities.
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Itās a real shame they didnāt make that video over complex scenery or even use a PCIe4 capable gpu.
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Something the OP might want to consider. Which Iām looking at doing. My b450 board already has 1 NVMe drive as the system drive and itās only 256 GB so not big enough for MSFS. So Iām looking at getting one of those NVMe to PCIe adapter cards. Even though the spare PCIe slots I have are only version 2.0, an X4 PCIe slot should still give a big improvement over a SATA SSD. Can get a PCIe 3.0 NVMe at 1TB for a pretty good price these days.
Should work well. Keep Windows and the core MSFS install on the 256GB and your packages on the new one. It should then be pretty easy to swap drives to see which configuration performs best.
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Agree, i fly mostly in rural areas and use the cessna grand caravan.
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that graph is for msfs 1080p it doesnāt apply to vr with its high resolutions where the gpu makes all the difference not cpu.
Thatās more or less correct, the GPU will be the limiting factor for most VR set ups. However I donāt think thatās always the case with the higher end cards and certainly not with those that are still in development.
Thanks for the tip! I will remember that. But for now I got one 1tb 870 qvo ssd thats is dedicated to msfs. So I think that is enough for the near future. But a logical step in the future would be to upgrade to a nmve
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Yes the r5 3600 is really really good, but its a bit sad that it cant keep up in msfs
I have a 3080ti and an i7 7700k and iām gpu limited.
Overclocked cpu? VR? Multimonitor? underclocked gpu? LODs edited in UserCfg? ā¦ I never said itās not possible but on a single 4k or less monitor itās definitely unlikely.
I am putting my hopes on the next generation of hardware, both CPU and GPU, that will come out by the end of 2022; sure DLSS is an improvement but still not enough for vr. Hopefully, this sim will finally run smoothly with a 4090 and an i9-13900k
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Me too. I am too scared of dropping a few grand on a 3080ti set up and still being disappointed in the results. We are this close, gonna wait until the new series is here. Iāll let you get it first and report back thoughā¦ 
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That sounds great ā¦ and may I say that I would be quite happy to take your old rubbish off your hands ā¦ This is a free service for forum members 
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4.5ghz 6 years old cpu. in vr of course. gpu has slight overclock. LODs not edited. at vr high resolutions which are often greater than 4k i firmly believe in most circumstances we are gpu limited even with 3080s/90s. i know i am.
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itāll run better but i donāt expect 90 fps for a few years yet.
You say that but MSFS is also progressing and so is Microsoft data handling.
PS. With a few settings changes I can get 90fps now (but my neck and eyes get sore from always looking up at the bright blue sky)
Sure I do not expect 90 fps, it would be unrealistic. I only hope for 45 fps in most scenarii which would give me a smooth gameplay
I know it will be expensive but I am tired of tweaking the sim to get barely acceptable fps
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I have seen gradual improvement on the current hardware - the problem with MSFS resides in its optimisation, not necessarily on hardware upgrades.
Surely, youāll get better performance, but it wonāt be efficient.
since it is a 10 year project, i look forward for these incremental changes. Iām cautious on buying new hardware - having spent a few Ks myself - and being disappointed.
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NVMEs are great.
Mine are running on the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card (Silent) which I had on my old Mac Pro 2010 (dual 6 core 3.46ghz 128GB ram). Even on that old machine it was blazing fast compared to the normal SSD.
I swapped that out and now use it in my current computer for Windows, one NVME is for Windows and FS2020 and the other is the storage drive for work or swapping files between Mac OS and Windows easily.
Iām similar attitude to the user before me (just above), Iām cautious on what I buy. Iāll spend $$$ if I have to, but it better be something thatās very solid and will keep going for a long time, thatās for our work use, but I have no doubt this thing should suffice for Flight Sim for a long while.
Maybe Apple and Nvidia might end their cold-war and we Mac people get NVIDIA graphics cards supported againā¦
The PC builds are tempting for gaming so I keep a watch on what is out there.