I'm a little sceptical that I would see any tangible improvement upgrading from an RTX 3090 to a 4080, but happy to be proved wrong by hearing from someone with experience of such an upgrade.

I'm happy enough with my 3090 to wait until the 5090 now. I've been skipping every other generation for about 25 years. 

The RTX 5000 series is in the starting blocks, so if you are in the market for a 4080 or higher I would hold off on buying one right now.

1 hour ago, Rocky_53 said:

I'm a little sceptical that I would see any tangible improvement upgrading from an RTX 3090 to a 4080, but happy to be proved wrong by hearing from someone with experience of such an upgrade.

I was recently forced to build a new system as my previous system failed.  I had a healthy RTX 3080 to move forward but I wanted something more current with MSFS 2024 approaching.  Based on reasonable affordability I chose an RTX 4080 Super at about $1,100 USD.  I am very happy with it but with the 4080 super and an AMD RZ7 7800X3D, and must mention my faithful use of the AutoFPS app, I see some measurable difference with in-sim performance "stats", but without much real perceivable difference with in-sim user experience.  The increase in stats does not really blow me away.  If I sense an improvement in user experience it is perhaps in the vicinity of multiple addons of really high detailed sceneries, and my sim travels do not often frequent those areas. 

Again I attribute a good deal of my user experience to AutoFPS.

I do feel I am comfortably positioned for MSFS 2024.

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by fppilot

1 hour ago, Rocky_53 said:

I'm a little sceptical that I would see any tangible improvement upgrading from an RTX 3090 to a 4080

So far in my life I have not been able to get any further than a 3080 ti; looking at what I can do with this card in MSFS2020 I expect similar performance in MSFS2024. By the way, the hardware forum would have been a much better place for your post 😉

2 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

I'm happy enough with my 3090 to wait until the 5090 now. I've been skipping every other generation for about 25 years. 

Makes sense

1 hour ago, outermarker said:

The RTX 5000 series is in the starting blocks, so if you are in the market for a 4080 or higher I would hold off on buying one right now.

Hmm, you're probably right. Will consider.

41 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I was recently forced to build a new system as my previous system failed.  I had a healthy RTX 3080 to move forward but I wanted something more current with MSFS 2024 approaching.  Based on reasonable affordability I chose an RTX 4080 Super at about $1,100 USD.  I am very happy with it but with the 4080 super and an AMD RZ7 7800X3D, and must mention my faithful use of the AutoFPS app, I see some measurable difference with in-sim performance "stats", but without much real perceivable difference with in-sim user experience.  The increase in stats does not really blow me away.  If I sense an improvement in user experience it is perhaps in the vicinity of multiple addons of really high detailed sceneries, and my sim travels do not often frequent those areas. 

Again I attribute a good deal of my user experience to AutoFPS.

I do feel I am comfortably positioned for MSFS 2024.

👍

24 minutes ago, Rimshot said:

So far in my life I have not been able to get any further than a 3080 ti; looking at what I can do with this card in MSFS2020 I expect similar performance in MSFS2024. By the way, the hardware forum would have been a much better place for your post 😉

Sure, good point Bert.

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by Rocky_53

The difference though is frame generation....  With AI you can easily get into the triple digit frames when using a powerful 40xx card.

Then again if you're only at like 1080p I wouldn't upgrade.

Additionally I would wait until the new 50xx cards arrive.

3 hours ago, Rocky_53 said:

I'm a little sceptical that I would see any tangible improvement upgrading from an RTX 3090 to a 4080, but happy to be proved wrong by hearing from someone with experience of such an upgrade.

 

 

As a rule of thumb (well, my rule of thumb) always go ahead two generations of Nvidia cards to see a difference that justifies the upgrade cost.

I've just gone from a 2070 super to a 470ti super. Very pleased.

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

As a rule of thumb (well, my rule of thumb) always go ahead two generations of Nvidia cards to see a difference that justifies the upgrade cost.

I've just gone from a 2070 super to a 470ti super. Very pleased.

Sure, I guess I was hoping for someone to say they had done a cost effective upgrade with great results!  Having said that, according to the video you've linked to in your post, the 4080 gives about a 16% increase over the 3090, which to be fair, is pretty good. It's whether I can justify the cost.

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by Rocky_53

Frame generation hasn't been exclusive to a 4000series Nvidia card in some time. In my case I was doing frame generation with my 4KTV before the 4000 series was even released.

2 hours ago, Rocky_53 said:

Sure, I guess I was hoping for someone to say they had done a cost effective upgrade with great results!  Having said that, according to the video you've linked to in your post, the 4080 gives about a 16% increase over the 3090, which to be fair, is pretty good. It's whether I can justify the cost.

Not my link! For what it's worth, I think the video underlines my point. A 3090 is still an incredibly capable card. A 16% increase is frankly not very noticeable. However, the hit on the wallet would be very noticeable!

Would a 4080 make that much of a difference, doesn't the 4080 only have 12 Gb of VRAM?

2 hours ago, HUSSAR said:

Would a 4080 make that much of a difference, doesn't the 4080 only have 12 Gb of VRAM?

It has 16GB