Hello, 

I plan on buying a laptop for FSX and P3D v4 (I'm not sure, I already have a plenty of paywares for FSX so that's why I want to continue with that old sim).

The specs are: 

- CPU: ryzen 5 4600H up to 4.00 GHz 

- GPU: nvidia RTX 2060 6GB 

- RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200MHz

- SSD: 512 GB PCI Express

-Display: Full HD IPS 144Hz Antiglare

 

Now I own a notebook and running FSX pretty good honestly (i5 7200U up to 3.1GHz, Intel HD 620, 500GB HDD, 8GB RAM DDR4 2133MHz). 

The reason I want to change is the low performance using payware scenery, that photorealistic very nice looking graphics. I currently use only ORBX products (not looking very good but as it runs ok on my low end laptop is fine), and I'm getting nice fps, above 20, in a PMDG 777 cockpit. 

I have a lot of planes: Aerosoft A318,319,320,321,  Blackbox A330,340,Carenado beech 350i, 1900D, b200, embraer phenom 100, saab 340, CLS DC 10 (all variants), Captain sim 737 200, 727, 767, Flight 1 DC9, Feelthere erj135,145, embraer 170,175,190,195,  Just flight DC8 (all variants), Majestic DASH 8 Q400, PMDG 737 600,700,800,900, JS3100, MD11, 777, 747, Quality WIngs avro rj 70, 85,100, BAE 146 100,200,300, RAZBAM metroliner III.

With all of those planes I'm getting above 20, sometimes 15, with 100% traffic density on the native resolution of 1366x768, all sliders almost max (exept autogen and scenery complexity). 

I had a very good experience so I decided to get IMAGINESIM Atlanta scenery, then I saw the limit: 3-10 FPS even with all low settings, CPU being killed (running 100% with all cores). I decided to get a new laptop, but I dunno how it will perform in FSX (as this sim is a bit special).

Also planning using this laptop for gaming (like cyberpunk) and I think is capable of handling it on ultra at 40fps, and P3D v4 at medium I think. Only FSX is my concern and I can't stop thinking about it (will the new laptop run it better than the old one?).

I actually heard some people complaining that FSX is running poorly even on the best PCs, so that's why I'm nervous. Also those money on the paywares. 

Thank u for reading all this, I'm waiting for adivces.

FSX is a strange beast. CPU speed is absolute king.

I'm not sure what you are expecting performance wise but this is FSX with my recent CPU upgrade.

Might give you an idea what to expect? Best of luck.

Looks similar to the same change I did (7200U to 8300H). FSX does not shine in my laptop as expected, but the upgrade was good enough for leaving FSX (and later P3D) as my main sim, instead of FS9.