Just thought I would share a little information with you guys.

Running a n RTX3080 with a 5600X I found very little difference in framerates between the two and like many of you ran TAA as the loss of FPS was minimal and TAA was slightly better - the trade off was not worth it.

However, I just swapped out my 5600X for a 5800X3D and the difference in FPS between the two is massive at exactly the same settings.  Where I was getting 80 FPS in TAA, I just switched over to DLSS quality and the FPS jumped to 120, so I will be sticking with that.

I run at mostly ultra settings with a LOD of 300 (though anything above 250 was a bit of a strain). I'm using the new studio Nvidia driver in DX12.

So it seems that the real benefits of DLSS shine with a faster CPU, though the L3 cache must be having some impact.

I do normally cap at 30 FPS for smoothness and it taxes my system less preferring to trade my extra FPS for better quality 

I will do a bit more testing over the next few days and see how things go.

Edited October 1, 20223 yr by cianpars

2 hours ago, cianpars said:

I'm using the new studio Nvidia driver in DX12.

There's a newer version, Game Ready, v517.48

9 minutes ago, edpatino said:

There's a newer version, Game Ready, v517.48

Thanks, I was aware of that, just hadn't got around to downloading it yet.  I understand that the fixes in the game ready driver were already in the studio driver.

1 hour ago, cianpars said:

I understand that the fixes in the game ready driver were already in the studio driver.

Not sure of that. At least what Nvidia says in the Release Notes is that the Game Ready version contains fixes especific to MSFS

Edited October 2, 20223 yr by edpatino

In VR the resolution is so high that most systems are probably gpu limited, I think. Anyway in VR, DLSS shows me about 50% better fps than does TAA. DLSS gives a smaller boost when I'm not in VR. 

(I can't see the Developers Mode FPS screen in VR to see what's what). I can see the fps by using OXR Toolkit, but that's just a single number like 43.7 or  whatever. FPS Dev Mode screen shows up fine in 2D but never in VR on my system.

9 hours ago, edpatino said:

Not sure of that. At least what Nvidia says in the Release Notes is that the Game Ready version contains fixes specific to MSFS

Also in the studio driver release notes as well Ed.  Exactly the same fixes, and performance tests conducted by various people on line show no difference.  I am also running the studio driver with no issues and excellent performance.

Basically, no point installing the newer game ready driver over the latest studio driver - until something else changes of course! 

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Also in the studio driver release notes as well Ed.  Exactly the same fixes, and performance tests conducted by various people on line show no difference.  I am also running the studio driver with no issues and excellent performance.

Basically, no point installing the newer game ready driver over the latest studio driver - until something else changes of course! 

Yes, agree.