Would you kind forum dwellers please direct me to FS2020 benchmarks for RTX 40xx nvidia graphics cards, and in particular, RTX 4070 and RTX 4080 cards. 

Thanks in advance, RobertR

Be wary of the current RTX 4070 with just 8GB VRAM .

Whist 3090 performance out of a 70 series card sounds good - it is already having issues with some of the newer games around like Hogwarts Legacy due to the lack of VRAM.

While 8GB seems fine with MSFS for now - there is a risk 8GB will not be enough to play on the settings the card otherwise could handle, by the time MSFS2024 rolls around just becasue it lacks VRAM.

They have already rushed out a 16GB 4060TI so hopefully a similar upgraded 4070 may be available shortly.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

The reason that I am interested in these benchmarks is that I planned to upgrade an older GPU to an RTX 4080 FE but, with the RTX 4080 FE costing $1200 and the RTX 5000 being a year from shipping, I am considering upgrading to a $600 RTX 4070 FE now and then using the saved $600 to help upgrade to an RTX 5000 in 18 months.

Useful benchmarks are hard to come across for MSFS, because it doesn't have a real benchmark mode, meaning any and all data is completely inconsistent, can't be compared, can't really be repeated thus impossible to verify and benchmarks are all over the place.

You are better off looking at bog standard reviews and benchmarks for the hardware, then extrapolate the data from that.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Sethos

13 minutes ago, RobertRent said:

[...] I am considering upgrading to a $600 RTX 4070 FE now and then using the saved $600 to help upgrade to an RTX 5000 in 18 months.

Buy the best you can afford now.

You don't know what will happen with the 5000-series cards and you won't be artificially limiting yourself for 18 months to the lower VRAM of the 4070.

In certain situations I can easily hit the 12 GB VRAM limit of my 3080 Ti and others have said that they've seen 20 GB+ usage.

You can always sell the 4080 when the 5000-series GPUs arrive.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by F737MAX

To be honest I would go with either the 4080 or the 16GB 4060TI .

I would give the 8GB 4070 a miss.

I have a 470 ti and 12 gb is not enough vram with dx12 at high detail addon AirPorts with my 3440x1440 monitor.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Ixoye

3 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

To be honest I would go with either the 4080 or the 16GB 4060TI .

I would give the 8GB 4070 a miss.

If you want to aim for 4K gaming you should stay clear of the 4060TI, no matter the Variant. That card is basically a marketing stunt. It has the architecture of a xx50 card sold for the price of a xx60 card.

I have it in the 8GB version, and I personally have no problem with it because I'm a strict HD 1080p user with no intent on going to 4K in the very foreseable future.

But for anything above that that 4060 is a rip-off.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Farlis

3 hours ago, Sethos said:

Useful benchmarks are hard to come across for MSFS, because it doesn't have a real benchmark mode, meaning any and all data is completely inconsistent, can't be compared, can't really be repeated thus impossible to verify and benchmarks are all over the place.

You are better off looking at bog standard reviews and benchmarks for the hardware, then extrapolate the data from that.

My 4090 reaches 17-18GB VRAM with the Fenix A320 and ultra settings in 4K, in and around dense areas such as LA, NY and London.

Obviously, with say 1440 or 1080p and lower settings you can comfortably run with 8GB of ram. I had GTX 1080 for the first year of FS2020 with 1080p monitor and it was great.

When I upgraded to a 4K monitor for better visuals, you need more grunt, so I first went to a 3090 and now recently 4090.

But I would agree to get the most powerful you can afford.

Stu

There were a lot of threads about this about 6 months ago when the cards were new.

I have an RTX 4080, and the performance in MSFS with Frame Generation is about 70-80% higher than with my RTX 3090.
The 16GB of VRAM on the 4080 is very useful, I would not buy a card with 8 GB these days. The sim will fill up the 16 GB very quickly.

Even if you plan on keeping a card for about a year, I would buy a good card now and sell it when it's time to upgrade again.

For benchmark numbers, there are plenty of videos on Youtube on that topic.

 

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Republic3D

When I purchased my 4070ti this spring I researched 40 series gaming benchmark videos on YouTube. If you just look for those you’ll see that a large majority contain MSFS 2020. Take a gander, you’ll see. 
-B

I have a 4080 and it's wonderful except at iniBuilds JFK...where their texture saturate my vram, and even with frame gen, my fps go into the low 20s or even high teens with ultra settings, AI traffic, and heavy weather 

9 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Be wary of the current RTX 4070 with just 8GB VRAM .

 

The 4070 has 12GB of memory.

4 minutes ago, booga said:

The 4070 has 12GB of memory.

I'd be wary of that too if you're at anything above 1080P.

Getting a gpu with a 12gb vram in 2023 is like throwing your money in the garbage can. Please don't do that. You WILL hit the vram bottleneck. Rtx 5000 is still 2 years away. Not one but two. Get a 4090 if you can afford one and chill for at least 6 to 7 years. Frame generation extended the life of rtx 4000 series even more.

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Baber20