26 minutes ago, Farlis said:

K cpu's can be overclocked.

Xs too

33 minutes ago, Bottle said:

Encouraging and expected specs, but personally I think it is unwise to upgrade now on the basis of this information. Certainly worth scoping out upgrades. But the devil will be in the details. So for me, I’ll be waiting for the hands on testing and reviews before choosing an upgrade. For instance, performance against different CPUs is likely to be significant if the program is explicitly written for multi threading/multi core (which I expect it will be). 

Wise indeed to wait a little for this reason and also because prices could be lower at the end of the year on the recommended hardware after the release of new CPU and GPU .

However having the specs are nice to plan a new rig and it gives some hints : hitting 5 GHz doesn’t seem a must, having the highest MMB should be useful, 8GB of Vram would be enough (and not the 11 of a 2080ti).

Edited April 22, 20206 yr by Dominique_K

So since memory bandwidth plays an important factor in terms of performance for msfs2020, what intel CPU has the highest memory bandwidth currently? and will the 10th generation i9 have a new chip with good mmb as well? Deciding between i9-10990K or something with the most memory bandwidth.

What about the i9-9800X? Does anyone know how much memory bandwidth that has? I couldn't find that info.

Edited April 22, 20206 yr by captain420

16 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

8GB of Vram would be enough (and not the 11 of a 2080ti)

Don't forget though, that if / when MSFS moves to DX12 more VRAM might come in handy.

1 minute ago, captain420 said:

So since memory bandwidth plays an important factor in terms of performance for msfs2020

What is memory bandwitch? Something cpu related or RAM?

I find it hard to believe that a 6yo GPU can be classed as recommended, at least a 1070 or more likely a 1080. The ideal specs are bang on though imo.

Shame they haven't quoted resolutions.

Edited April 22, 20206 yr by hanhamreds

The big question is: which visual settings and effects need to be lowered or turned off to get decent performance with the recommended specs. 

I wonder which is the cheaper system to build? Looks like the AMD is cheaper?

7 minutes ago, GodAtum said:

I wonder which is the cheaper system to build? Looks like the AMD is cheaper?

I guess you would need to look up prices in your country as it could differ.

 

Just now, SierraDelta said:

Don't forget though, that if / when MSFS moves to DX12 more VRAM might come in handy.

Excellent point ! My philosophy is that I've never met a hardware that was too robust for a sim anyway ! 

Never heard of I7-9800x. 

Similar to i7-9800k?

I am between the minimum and recommended level in harware, however i have a 800Mbp fiber connection.

I wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing since higher internet speed means more details to compute...it would be a shame to lower my connection!

Do you guys have an opinion about that?

Edited April 22, 20206 yr by Noooch

I cannot understand why resolution has not been mentioned. Can a 2080 deliver the same performance at 3840*2160 as it can at 1920*1080? Surely not.

Any possibility someone with inside contacts can ask the question please?

3 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I cannot understand why resolution has not been mentioned. Can a 2080 deliver the same performance at 3840*2160 as it can at 1920*1080? Surely not.

Any possibility someone with inside contacts can ask the question please?

Maybe the specs are for 4K, as it's becoming a standard in the flight sim. Honestly, most of the games have only generic specs, not divided by resolution. But it could've been stated. 🙂

Just now, captain420 said:

So since memory bandwidth plays an important factor in terms of performance for msfs2020, what intel CPU has the highest memory bandwidth currently? and will the 10th generation i9 have a new chip with good mmb as well? Deciding between i9-10990K or something with the most memory bandwidth.

What about the i9-9800X? Does anyone know how much memory bandwidth that has? I couldn't find that info.

Let me be clear. I drew the conclusion that MMB was more important than frequency because they recommended the 9800X over the 9900K. It is NOT a thruth carved in the marble. It is just my own early conclusion. And I suppose that if one wants to go higher the 10900X would be the one rather the the 10900K.

 

Just now, Ray Proudfoot said:

I cannot understand why resolution has not been mentioned. Can a 2080 deliver the same performance at 3840*2160 as it can at 1920*1080? Surely not.

Any possibility someone with inside contacts can ask the question please?

Asobo has said since early on that they were aiming at a default 4K resolution. But the question deserves to be raised again with the FS20 team. Our ambassador @simtom will be glad to dothat 😉 !

Just now, Noooch said:

I am between the minimum and recommended level in harware, however i have a 800Mbp fiber connection.

I wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing since higher internet speed means more details to compute...it would be a shame to lower my connection!

Do you guys have an opinion about that?

Problème de riche, j'en pleure 😄 avec mes 4 Mbps dans mon coin reculé. Anyway you can always get the proverbial sliders a little to the left ! 

6 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I cannot understand why resolution has not been mentioned. Can a 2080 deliver the same performance at 3840*2160 as it can at 1920*1080? Surely not.

Any possibility someone with inside contacts can ask the question please?

Honestly, it's not that usual to give detailed resolutions. Lockheed Martin doesn't give them either

https://www.prepar3d.com/system-requirements/

(besides the minimum 1024×768 required). 

Kind regards, Michael