April 10, 201214 yr Nothing I'm afraid. 7990 is the next AMD card to be released. It will essentially be a dual Tahiti GPU card with 6gb of memory. It will still probably lose to NV when it comes to FSX. I don't think the rumored GK110 will offer much more in terms of performance than the GK104 when it comes to FSX. Running my 680 vs the 580 the new card only offers a few frames here and there and some smoothing of the microstutters. The 680 has not been an overall huge performance upgrade in FSX. BF3 and DCS A10 is another story. As I have said before hardware at this point is just a band-aid for the poor coding in FSX and each new gen of hardware only gives a few frames here and there. Hopefully Prepar3d will help but I have stopped holding my breath.
April 10, 201214 yr I was waiting for the 7990 to replace my 6990 but I'm edging closer to jumping ship. AMD handled the drivers for the 7000 series terribly and it was enough to put my desire for a 7990 on hold and start looking at the 680.. I'm going to hold off for a bit though because of the price gouging taking place as a result of the demand for the cards. I've seen them in stock at places but $130 over MSRP.. No thanks.. ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING / i9-9900k @ 4.7 all cores w/ NOCTUA NH-D15S / 2080ti / 32GB G.Skill 3200 RIPJAWS / 1TB Evo SSD / 500GB Evo SSD / 2x 3TB HDD / CORSAIR CRYSTAL 570X / IPSG 850W 80+ PLATINUM / Dual 4k Monitors
April 10, 201214 yr I think it will be the same for the GTX 685. I think we are pretty much on the limit of graphics cards for FSX, in terms of GPU power, FSX is not gonna get much better than this. We are not yet at the limit. Theoretically, we can't ever reach a 'limit'. Although, our jumps in performance in FPS every generation have slowed... FSX needs a powerful CPU for the GPU upgrades to scale. You are correct in saying that the 680 won't provide any more FPS BUT, maybe if we send a SB or Haswell to 6GHZ, then the new Kepler cards would begin to scale vs the current Fermi architecture. Disagree. High AA settings. Extreme Autogen settings. Hi-res Clouds/cockpits. High water effect settings. You'll know the difference if you make the upgrade, I'm positive. +1 Rep. Point... This is one of the reasons that we are in ever more demand for extremely powerful CPU's and GPU's.
April 12, 201214 yr My GTX580 never gets more loaded than 40%-50%... What an easy life for a graphics card. I wish my life would be that easy :Nerd: 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
April 18, 201214 yr And, I understand your joysss; but how these companies play games with us bothers me...Every year they bump it up a little bit, and they tell us: "Look this the greatest thing on earth!" Business, business at it's best , or is it? What's after 985....1085 ? hahaha
April 18, 201214 yr And, I understand your joysss; but how these companies play games with us bothers me...Every year they bump it up a little bit, and they tell us: "Look this the greatest thing on earth!" Business, business at it's best , or is it? What's after 985....1085 ? hahaha I see this argument a lot over at HardOCP and Overclockers and with all due respect find it to be silly and baseless. You are upset or perplexed because a manufacturer created a better product (all around) that replaced and older product at near the same price? A 30-40% improvement in most games over the previous gen plus beating the nearest competitor at a lower price is not a little bump or taking advantage of the end user IMO. So far every GPU gen has yielded a better product than the previous and at similar pricing. How much improvement is needed to justify selling a replacing an older product at near the same price? Not trying to flame you but I just don't understand this complaint.
April 19, 201214 yr Ouch, look at the power draw. How much will this baby cost? Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
April 19, 201214 yr I see this argument a lot over at HardOCP and Overclockers and with all due respect find it to be silly and baseless. You are upset or perplexed because a manufacturer created a better product (all around) that replaced and older product at near the same price? A 30-40% improvement in most games over the previous gen plus beating the nearest competitor at a lower price is not a little bump or taking advantage of the end user IMO. So far every GPU gen has yielded a better product than the previous and at similar pricing. How much improvement is needed to justify selling a replacing an older product at near the same price? Not trying to flame you but I just don't understand this complaint. Hi John, I'm afraid you've missed the whole point of my observation. Due to your lmitations in understanding, I am unable to explain it further. (imo imho) :Peace:
April 20, 201214 yr At this point in time, I think it is going to be all about increasing image quality in FSX from a graphics card standpoint. Scott KGPI
April 20, 201214 yr Commercial Member Don't forget the marketing aspect. nVidia probably has technology in their pipeline that will blow away the 685 with other designs that will surpass those waiting in the wings. Remember that $$ is always the goal so as in poker why would they show their best hand when it isn't necessary? So hardware upgrades will always be incremental and in the interest of the best ROI - IOW marketing. Cheers jja Jim Allen[email protected]SkyPilot Software home of FSXAssist / P3DAssist
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