August 11, 201411 yr I currently have a GTX 580 Classified card and it does ok with P3D, although it makes a lot of fan noise when it gets hot...... so I have a birthday coming up and my better half is looking for ideas. I had wanted to upgrade to a GTX780, which while a generation older than the current stuff seems to have become the defacto standard for flight simming (of course P3D is putting a lot more load on the GPU, and we hear that SLI is coming- just not with v2.3 due for release soon...I would no doubt need to upgrade by PSU if I has 2 GPUs running SLI....) Any suggestions as to what a good upgrade might be? Thanks, Win 8.1 64 bit, i7 running at 4.5 GHz Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
August 11, 201411 yr I currently have a GTX 580 Classified card and it does ok with P3D, although it makes a lot of fan noise when it gets hot...... so I have a birthday coming up and my better half is looking for ideas. I had wanted to upgrade to a GTX780, which while a generation older than the current stuff seems to have become the defacto standard for flight simming (of course P3D is putting a lot more load on the GPU, and we hear that SLI is coming- just not with v2.3 due for release soon...I would no doubt need to upgrade by PSU if I has 2 GPUs running SLI....) Any suggestions as to what a good upgrade might be? Thanks, Win 8.1 64 bit, i7 running at 4.5 GHz Bruce. What I would do is wait for the new 800 series Nvida cards to release in October or November ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170
August 13, 201411 yr Commercial Member I went from a 1.5GB 580 like you to a 2GB 670 which I thought ran real well with P3Dv2.1 and 2.2. I just went for the GTX 780 6GB to "prepare" (ha!), for P3Dv2.3. I chose this over the Titan. Why? Same amount of VRAM which LM says you want the most within your budget and I save some $500-600 for a little less performance. Which I haven't even noticed. I think I made a good decision. Just got 2.3 up and running. Best performance I have ever seen in a flight siimulator. Had sliders nearly maxed and was seeing solid 50-60's FPS. This is with a default setup. So I am happy with the route I took. Now with the save $500 I can apply that to a 2nd 780 when SLI becomes available. Hope that helps. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
August 13, 201411 yr A similar thread with more information on the nVidia GTX 870 and GTX 880: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/449126-advice-on-gpu-update/#entry3054924 A bit more rumormongering from Guru3D.com: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/possible-geforce-gtx-870-specs-and-benchmark-leaked.html
August 13, 201411 yr Author Thanks for the helpful comments, everyone. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
August 15, 201411 yr Author If anyone's still up on this thread: I'm interested ion the difference between an NV 780 Ti and the NV 780 GTX. The incremental performance (as seen on a comparison in a Google search) is relatively small, although I know that every cycle counts . The Ti version is $700 +, the GTX is $500 + Thanks, Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
August 15, 201411 yr Rather than me speculating, here's a whole bunch of people speculating: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1966523/gtx-780-gtx-780ti-worth.html It's a message board, so watch out for the sporadic bad language. or don't look at the thread if you are offended.
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