as the tittle says.....whats your take?

 

Excluding 590, 690.

I guess the Nvidia 680 series or higher, and of course AMD 79xx series.

 

But don't use AMD cards in FSX , I am using a HD 7750 but even after using the shader mod 3.0 for the clouds I get fps drops but sometimes it works.

I play other games such as BF3, Medal of Honor WF, Assassins Creed and soon Far Cry 3. Word out is that the AMDs are on the top now due to their drivers. I'm keeping my eyes open for possible deals coming up here in Canada during the Boxing Day/Week sale later this month. Furthermore, im brain storming ahead of time to see if its worth upgrading now or waiting for the nextgen GPUs to release. Haven't flown in a while tho.

 

Thanks

Yeah it is due to the GCN architecture with 7xxx series card and the 12.11 beta drivers are showing an increase in performance. But y advice is if you plan using FSX than the Nvidia cards are better, though I am not sure how well the 7970 series will perform in FSX where clouds are concerned.

With your setup, you may be dissappointed if you spend a shed load of bucks on a new card. Your current card and system is fine for FSX.

 

FSX is much more CPU bound than GPU bound (unlike previous versions) and my last videocard upgrade was goood, because it enabled me to use usepools=0 better, but didn't give me any more FPS.

 

IAN

i find both AMD and NVIDIA do the job. i have run fsx with both cards and was very satisfied with performance.

Using a gtx 465 atm, but just bought a gtx 650. Should arrive in a couple days.

 

 

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Despite what some people have said, I do have some success using SLI with FSX. Perhaps because I'm at quite a large resolution (triple 1920x1080 surround) so the usual CPU bound argument applies a little less, because there's a lot more work for the GPUs to do than there would be at 1080p.

 

I see you are using a catleap, so at your resolution you might see an improvement by trying another 580, and I think you wouldn't be risking a lot, since if you picked up a second hand one and were not happy with the performance, you could resell it for close to what you paid.

 

Are you planning surround or eyefinity at any point? If so, it may be worth looking at AMD instead, as eyefinity generally looks a lot more flexible and capable than surround, and people seem to say performance is better at surround resolutions.

When CCC was not loaded and I was at KJFK I have pulled 60 fps in the air and on the ground was a very handsome 30 and I am all max settings. So a strong GPU is needed in FSX no matter what.

Despite what some people have said, I do have some success using SLI with FSX. Perhaps because I'm at quite a large resolution (triple 1920x1080 surround) so the usual CPU bound argument applies a little less, because there's a lot more work for the GPUs to do than there would be at 1080p.

 

I see you are using a catleap, so at your resolution you might see an improvement by trying another 580, and I think you wouldn't be risking a lot, since if you picked up a second hand one and were not happy with the performance, you could resell it for close to what you paid.

 

Are you planning surround or eyefinity at any point? If so, it may be worth looking at AMD instead, as eyefinity generally looks a lot more flexible and capable than surround, and people seem to say performance is better at surround resolutions.

not in the near future.

See for the GPU section in Word Not Allowed's Guide for info and an interesting cloudtest :

 

http://#####.wordpress.com/fsx-software-and-hardware-guide/

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GTX680 4MB

my 670m 3gb in my laptop gives me amazing fps in fsx at max settings....all sliders to the right

Just bought a 660ti will test it out tonight