Hi, getting a gaming PC soon and was wondering if an i5-10400F and a 3070 would work well together on X-Plane or would there be a severe bottleneck?

With a 3070, you'll be bottlenecked.  Look at either downgrading your GPU or upgrading to a faster CPU.

If you plan on future proofing, and want to upgrade the CPU later, and keep the 3070, that's ok, too.  Just go in knowing that your choice of CPU is on the low end.

10700K, Intel 11th gen are not worth the money and are ovens, or AMD 50000 series, fastest you can get. People fail to realize all the new GPU's are aimed at ray tracing which xplane does not use, stop believing the hype, anything above a RTX2070 will do, if you can get one.

Inte l AMD Xplane

Edited May 8, 20215 yr by mjrhealth

On 5/9/2021 at 12:10 AM, mjrhealth said:

xplane does not use

yet.

a lot easier to upgrade xplane than your gpu.

also, not really, raytrace is great for the marketing guys, but the real innovation here is not the rt cores for raytracing but rather the tensor cores, which give physics simulation an order of magnitude more fancy.

this kind of stuff:

(cuda 9)

https://github.com/art049/InteractiveWoodCombustion

Edited May 12, 20215 yr by mSparks

Double post

Edited May 12, 20215 yr by GCBraun

On 5/8/2021 at 12:28 PM, AviaSimmer said:

Hi, getting a gaming PC soon and was wondering if an i5-10400F and a 3070 would work well together on X-Plane or would there be a severe bottleneck?

What is your target resolution?

On 5/8/2021 at 1:03 PM, GoranM said:

With a 3070, you'll be bottlenecked.  Look at either downgrading your GPU or upgrading to a faster CPU.

If you plan on future proofing, and want to upgrade the CPU later, and keep the 3070, that's ok, too.  Just go in knowing that your choice of CPU is on the low end.

The 10400 is a competent processor and should not bottleneck the 3070 significantly at 1440p+/4K. If he wants to play at 1080p, then he should get a cheaper GPU.

22 hours ago, mSparks said:

yet.

a lot easier to upgrade xplane than your gpu.

also, not really, raytrace is great for the marketing guys, but the real innovation here is not the rt cores for raytracing but rather the tensor cores, which give physics simulation an order of magnitude more fancy.

this kind of stuff:

(cuda 9)

https://github.com/art049/InteractiveWoodCombustion

That would all be nice if we used them, not sure Xplane does.

1 hour ago, mjrhealth said:

That would all be nice if we used them, not sure Xplane does.

vulkan compute is something plugins can make use of, fully expect to see them during xp12s lifecycle.

I doubt LR will make full use if it themselves any time soon because tensor cores are nvidia exclusive, LR will likely be limited to the lowest common denominator (mac amd)

Edited May 13, 20215 yr by mSparks