February 10, 20233 yr Sorry if not in the right thread. I have an i7-6700K OC’ed at 4.7GHz with a 980Ti. Overall FPS is pretty good, stable 37FPS in most places but when using PMDG and in EGLL or other “busy” airports my FPS drops to 23. I use one screen only. I have my FPS locked to 37 via RTSS. I’m curious about upgrading my GPU over my CPU due to extra costs such as new motherboard, RAM etc. I am looking at MSI or ASUS 2070S. If upgrading would I see noticeable improvement in FPS? Thanks.
February 10, 20233 yr In your case, I think that you would not see an improvement in FPS in your described situation after a GPU upgrade, because the scenario (busy airports + PMDG) is heavily CPU-power consuming, and it looks to me like you are CPU limited. You can check it by monitoring your GPU load (which I think will be less that 100%). If you get a faster video card, that load will be lower, but the frame rate will not be higher. The only way to achieve higher FPS in this situation is to get a faster CPU (I don't know how much faster it gets compared to yours) or reduce your settings. Do you use AI traffic? What are your settings?
February 11, 20233 yr I had 6700K for a while and served me well for over 5 years and at that time I used 970 than 1070, all the way till December 2020. Yeah not perfect but workable with moderate settings. Of course, upgrade brought lot's of clarity and smoothens with SIM. Some pricing came down and availability is much better so if you can spare some money you might pick decent PC parts. Don't overkill because in this case "bigger" is not better..... Edited February 11, 20233 yr by cyyzrwy24 Alex
February 11, 20233 yr 14 hours ago, JRussell said: Sorry if not in the right thread. I have an i7-6700K OC’ed at 4.7GHz with a 980Ti. Overall FPS is pretty good, stable 37FPS in most places but when using PMDG and in EGLL or other “busy” airports my FPS drops to 23. I use one screen only. I have my FPS locked to 37 via RTSS. I’m curious about upgrading my GPU over my CPU due to extra costs such as new motherboard, RAM etc. I am looking at MSI or ASUS 2070S. If upgrading would I see noticeable improvement in FPS? Thanks. What do you use for Display? Intel Core i9-10900K at 5.2GHz, Corsair H115i PRO, ASUS MAXIMUS XII HERO Z490, G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 15-16-16-36, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090, SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB x 3, Corsair HX Series HX1000 Watt PSU, Pimax Crystal LIght.
February 11, 20233 yr your CPU is still alright for FS2020, i was still rocking a 6600K until recently i had upgraded to 13600K with 6750XT to replace my 1060 6GB. I did my upgrade in stages, so i went for my 6750XT, and noticing that CPU was bottlenecking, but i already realized that it would not make sense to have this setup, so I went with the CPU upgrade a month later. I would say, with the GPU prices are slowly going down reasonably, I would pick up 30 series nvidia and pair it with a 12th gen, or get the 13th gen using your DDR4, which I am currently using so save some costs. I went with AMD because of the 12GB video ram, otherwise, I would stick with Nvidia, and their pricing model is just doesn't make sense these days. Now my setup is doing alright with most ULTRA settings, while i still have to do some adjustments to maintain a good 45 FPS in heavier airports with FBW. I run my screen at 1440p Edited February 11, 20233 yr by avistudent
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