Hello all!

I built a PC in July for the first time, here’s the highlights:

Ryzen 9 7950x3D

MSI RTX 4080 Super Suprim X

64 GB DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVME

Corsair RM850x (2021)

 

This PC is a monster at gaming and anything I throw at it. But I’m wondering if it’s being sold short with the GPU, as psychotic that is of me to say. My GPU utilization averages between 70-100% in almost all circumstances with VRAM not going beyond 11GB at a max. 
 

While the VRAM usage is within its means, would I get any benefit from stepping up to a 4090 given the utilization I have now? (I’m pretty sure would have to upgrade the PSU to ATX 3.0 for this to work ([~1k wattage]).

Im hoping the answer is a very confident, obvious “NOOOO” but I’m having a hard time convincing myself there wouldn’t be a material increase in performance 😆 (performance = FPS, in my opinion).

 

Thank you everyone!

Edited September 24, 20241 yr by Amrick615

Unless you are running multiple monitors or even multiple 4k monitors, I don't think it would be worth it at all.. 

1 hour ago, Dave_YVR said:

Unless you are running multiple monitors or even multiple 4k monitors, I don't think it would be worth it at all.. 

So 50 fps at 100% utilization wouldn't translate to, say, 70 fps at a lower utilization? (forgive me, I don't really get how GPU utilization works other than it depends on the CPU's productivity).

Edited September 24, 20241 yr by Amrick615

That is what i am seeing, 4080 is maxed out (3 screens plus gps screen so 4 total). Havent tried to put a 4090 in it to see the difference but am sure in some cases it must help.

With GFX cards it's the more the merrier.

I never thought I would run out of GFX memory what with the 12 GB I have on my 3080 Ti but it does happen when configuring for max GFX usage.

It's also very easy to drive the card to max usage which then results in frame rates dropping - vegetation shadows, high dynamic reflections and high Anti-Aliasing are main GPU draw cards, also a wide draw range for autogen/vegetation will overload as there can be so much extra to draw.

I recommend a monitoring tool to gather an idea of where and what loads the GFX card so you can create tuned configs to suit the area. I use the ASUS GPU Tweek II tool but you could use Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc).

Cheers

Worth it is a relative term, but I don't think it will give more FPS.  It may let you use more eye candy in the sim while maintaining acceptable frame rates, but that's about it.

How about a RTX3090ti to a RTX4090ti with a single, wide, 4k tv for a monitor?