Nvidia Titan Video Card

[tamba765 54]

     Are any of you out there using an Nvidia Titan video card. If so, are you satisfied with the performance?

 I'm going to have a new machine built, and I want the most horsepower I can get for P3Dv4. Money really isn't a consideration. Thanks.

Pete Locascio

[Wink207 78]

13 minutes ago, tamba765 said:

     Are any of you out there using an Nvidia Titan video card. If so, are you satisfied with the performance?

 I'm going to have a new machine built, and I want the most horsepower I can get for P3Dv4. Money really isn't a consideration. Thanks.

Pete Locascio

I have a GTX Titan. Part of a new build in early 2014. Runs fine as far as I can see. Graphics are great in FSX.

[vp49p3 216]

24 minutes ago, tamba765 said:

     Are any of you out there using an Nvidia Titan video card. If so, are you satisfied with the performance?

 I'm going to have a new machine built, and I want the most horsepower I can get for P3Dv4. Money really isn't a consideration. Thanks.

Pete Locascio

Hi Pete--I run P3dv4 with a first generation Titan Pascal and an overclocked 6700k. Extremely satisfied using it to run three 4k monitors in surround with ease. Make sure you overclock the card, as it makes a big difference.  Also I would strongly recommend the watercooled hydro version, which can safely have an even higher overclock.   I bought Nvidia's after market water cooler, but have not added it on yet. Had there been a hydro version available at the time I would have gotten that to begin with.

Jay

[tamba765 54]

Are your frame rates good (above 24 or so) in high density scenery areas with weather, and at night with dynamic lighting on? That's where I'm having a lot of difficulty.

I see frame rates in the teens or sometimes single digits in these situations, with P3Dv4.

[paulyg123 135]

I have a NVidia Titan X card with a 7700K CPU.  On a 4K 42" TV with P3dV4 and any PMDG planes, I am > 60 fps with most sliders maxed out.  > 100 with default planes.

[MarkDH 234]

8 hours ago, paulyg123 said:

I have a NVidia Titan X card with a 7700K CPU.  On a 4K 42" TV with P3dV4 and any PMDG planes, I am > 60 fps with most sliders maxed out.  > 100 with default planes.

Over land? In weather?

[331BK 96]

Hey hey,

i Purchased a new system and currently i'm building it together :-)

 

7900x

32 gb ddr4 3200 mhz cl14

titan xp 12 gb watercooled

32 inch 4k g-sync monitor

1 tb samsung 960 evo

i can tell you hopefully in the midle of this week about Performance;-)

[paulyg123 135]

7 hours ago, MarkDH said:

Over land? In weather?

i'll give you an example:

I am sitting on runway KMCI on PMDG 737 with partly cloudy skies.  FPS is ~ 70fps.

I take off and at 5000 ft, I am 55-70 fps.

This is on a 42" 4K Samsung smart tv and a 2nd 30" samsung monitor.

Flytampa airports will knock it down a few fps.  The NYC area has always taken its toll and I can get 35-50 fps in the NYC area.  Where in Hawaii (I can get close to 90-100 fps) over water still in a PMDG plane.  The default planes make frame rates jump to steady 3 digit #'s.

V-SYNC off/fps set to unlimited.  Pretty smooth in my opinion.  Some chop in FlyTampa airports when taxiing.

I just cleared out all the weather to clear skies and it make no difference.    Ow I am level with Autopilot on at 8000 ft/no weather and 80 fps.

BTW I am flying with ASN and Ultimate traffic, so I do have a few liveries on the ground and ASN is set to live weather.

One more bit of info.  For the heck of it, I switched to 2D cockpit and fps fell to 40-46 fps.  So much for people wanting a 2D cockpit for better performance.

Edited March 18, 2018 by paulyg123
more info

[MarkDH 234]

26 minutes ago, paulyg123 said:

partly cloudy skies.  FPS is ~ 70fps.

I take off and at 5000 ft, I am 55-70 fps.

That's not really what I mean by 'in weather'. I am interested in what happens when you are flying in / around / through cloud layers and precipitation, as in my experience that dramatically affects performance. I use AS2016 with cloud layers limited (to 3 or 5, I forget), but weather is still a frame killer.

Perhaps these expensive cards can can have such a dramatic performance effect but such high frame rates with 4K seem implausible to me. On the other hand it's hard to get a real sense of what is 'normal' performance, as most people tend to report best frame rates with no attention to context (or usually even to screen resolution!)

[paulyg123 135]

I have the latest Active Sky running now and I am doing the Spacial awareness scenario in Active Sky (JFK Jr crash) flight in a PMDG 777.  So the weather is set by Active Sky at night time.  Anyway I am seeing fps 40-50 in this scenario.  It is very hard to compare scenarios.   I don't know if this helps you, but a high end CPU and a real good video card will handle anything you need for P3Dv4 and a PMDG plane with as much add on scenery you throw at it.

All I know is I bought this computer over 1 year ago when the Titan X Pascal was the best card out there, 1 week later the 1080TI came out with equal performance but more than 1/2 the price.  Oh well! Oh and I did not do the build, Jetline Systems did the build, installed all all the software (P3D, PMDG planes, scenery, Active Sky, UT and so on)  and optimized, OC to 5 GHz,plus everything else  for the best performance possible.

 

 

Edited March 18, 2018 by paulyg123

[MarkDH 234]

9 hours ago, paulyg123 said:

 I don't know if this helps you, but a high end CPU and a real good video card will handle anything you need for P3Dv4 and a PMDG plane with as much add on scenery you throw at it.

I don't have P3D or PMDG aircraft. I suppose it could be that P3D exploits the video card more than FSX. I am planning to try out P3Dv4 now I have a PC that's likely to run it properly.

[G-RFRY 1,712]

From my testing with Riva Tuner P3Dv4 is still CPU dependent clock speed is still king.