Just saw this on Nvidias website, seems abit hard to believe, double performance....

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-rtx-30-series-performance/

yeah we'd love to nVidia, but er......maybe we can make our own??

a test done by the manufacturer, better wait until independent gamers can or cannot confirm that.

Double performance how? Many cases we are CPU limited, which means no matter which card you have, it will be still CPU limited

What it says is double performance when going from a 1080 to a 3080 ...

Going from a 1080 to a 3090 was indeed a stunning jump in performance. Right up until Sim Update 3 and its stutterfest, and now I have my dream rig sitting idle while I wait for the performance to be fixed.

MSFS is partly bound by COU and partly bound by GPU. To what extent depends on the balance of your system and your settings.  I can well believe a 3080 will give you double the FPS of a 1080.

I built a new system last year with MSFS in mind (at 1080 rez) and had mediicre performance on high settings with a 2700 AMD CPU and an RTX 3070 GPU.  Changing out the 2700 for a 5600x CPU doubled my FPS and I now fly at 50-60 FPS most of the time on ultra settings with the sliders all turned up 

If you stick a 3000 series into a system with an old CPU, you may be disappointed, but balance the two and you really see a difference.

My system now seems perfectly balanced, though I would be reluctant to run at 4k with it and at UK £360 for the CPU and UK £460 for the GPU didn't break the bank either.

Of course, we have to wait until MS fix the World Downgrade 3 Update before we can put that grunt to good use.

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by cianpars

There is no a vendor having one in stock. 

29 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

What it says is double performance when going from a 1080 to a 3080 ...

At 4K resolution.

12 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

There is no a vendor having one in stock. 

Il y a souvent du stock sur Top achat et Cdiscount mais il faudra sortir les billets... (1000 balles pour une 3070)

18 minutes ago, cianpars said:

If you stick a 3000 series into a system with an old CPU, you may be disappointed, but balance the two and you really see a difference.

Don’t tell that to the 6700/7700k8700k crowd who swear by their on the limit 4.5-5ghz over clocks mean they are just as good as a 5950 or 10700k. #delusionsOfGranduer

What worked 2 years ago has started to really feel it’s age today. Glad I got my Ryzen 5800....now to find a non scalped 3080 or 90...lol the search for a unicorn

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by CaptainNick

A 6900XT will almost have same performance (not in VR tough) and is at least sometimes available (was lucky enough to get one for MSRP 2 weeks ago).

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by chatman

Going from an RTX 2060 to a RTX 3070 took my frame rate  when GPU bound from 30-35 FPS up to more like 45-50 FPS on my normal settings.   So going from a 1080 to a 3080 those numbers quoted look reasonable. I am also GPU bound far less often.

Naturally in parts of the sim where I am CPU bound it made no difference whatsoever (or potentially made it worse) but that is totally beside the point.

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

I do find it amusing/irritating that nVidia advertises their 30 series cards given that most of us can’t actually find one.

It’s like all the PS5 ads I keep seeing.  I mean I’d love to buy one, but....

4 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

There is no a vendor having one in stock. 

And that is likely not to change for a long time.

The hardware market was really hit hard by the shortage of certain rare earths and the pandemic.