So, I started with an old PC and realised it wasn’t enough, built a new one in April this year with a 9800x3d and ran my old 3080ti with a single screen and it was kind of OK but not great so got a 7900xtx based on recommendations here. At that time a 5090 was absurdly priced where I live - about 4000 USD or more. It’s now about 2800 USD so even with the loss I’ll take on selling the 7900xtx I am better off than having bought the 5090 in April.

Still getting stuttering and fps below 30 on high settings and 4k on center screen and 1080 on side screens.

Then moved to a 3 main screen, and 4 touchscreen setup and now I have some stuttering in busy airports, and I cant set ultra settings. The 3 main screens are of my 7900xtx and the 4 additional are off my integrated GPU.

So, question is should I get the 5090 now? Willing to spend the cash but few doubts

Will the new AMD 10000 series launch soon?

Will the 60 series Nvidia launch soon?

Most important - I have seen major improvement with the SU4 Beta and wondering whether if I wait for a couple of months the optimisation will get even better?

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You're always going to be waiting for the next best thing to come out.

If you can afford the 5090, get the 5090. It's really that simple.

The way NVIDIA is going they've been having very marginal increases in performance for each generation lately anyway.

Still stupidly and unecessarily overpriced...can't see rewarding that behavior a good thing.

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Maybe alot of those GPU's will be sold when they upgrade all the AI and Data centers around the world? If its that kind of GPU's they use but its millions of them. Kinda crazy world. Might also just being scrabbed

 

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8 hours ago, deepakvrao said:

Will the new AMD 10000 series launch soon?

Not likely, end of 2026 or early 2027.

AMD tend to deliver more quantity on release day (quantity available for the public that is, nVidia had plenty of 5090s on release day, just not going to retail outlets) but I’m sure scalpers will be all over them and do the markup game … so you can figure that it’ll be 2 months post release date before they’re close to MSRP (which is better than 9-10 months for nVidia).

What I tend to do is sell my prior gen once next gen is released.  So with that said, get a 5090 now sell it for next gen when available.  I’ve had huge success selling on craigslist to local buyers, just recently sold over $5K worth of PC gear … met some great people in the process from very young to old and shared knowledge.

 

Personally, I think it is the worst possible timepoint to buy a new GPU for MSFS2024, because I have really high hopes in those performance improvements on the CPU side coming in SU4. So I would definitively wait for the official release of SU4 and then check again. And of course, you absolutely need to check the FPS with the dev mode overlay to see if you are truly GPU limited now or if it is not still a CPU limit. Because spending 2500$ for a 5090 only to realize then that you get not a single FPS more because you are actually limited by the CPU would be a huge waste of money, no? 

10 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Because spending 2500$ for a 5090 only to realize then that you get not a single FPS more because you are actually limited by the CPU would be a huge waste of money, no?

Yes and No … because of DLSS and frame gen, the CPU limit wouldn’t really impact that processing as it’s all GPU.  So even if CPU is limited, a 5090 could still be a benefit when combined with specific graphics settings that are all GPU bound like (Ray Tracing, DLSS, etc.).  It’s no longer as straight forward as it used to be … your logic is sound a few years ago, but today the equation is more complex.

I was not precise enough, I mean specifically the 5090. Because if the CPU is limiting, you might get almost the same results using Multi Frame Generation and DLSS with a 5070Ti instead for less than half of the price. 

Besides that: ray tracing is not a point in MSFS2024. And he already said he only gets 30FPS using a 7900XTX, indicating a CPU limit if you ask me. The AMD card offers FSR frame generation, so this also should not be a point. 

4 hours ago, AnkH said:

I was not precise enough, I mean specifically the 5090. Because if the CPU is limiting, you might get almost the same results using Multi Frame Generation and DLSS with a 5070Ti instead for less than half of the price. 

Besides that: ray tracing is not a point in MSFS2024. And he already said he only gets 30FPS using a 7900XTX, indicating a CPU limit if you ask me. The AMD card offers FSR frame generation, so this also should not be a point. 

VRAM though.  That's a very important differentiator between the two.  

On 10/28/2025 at 7:52 AM, deepakvrao said:

Most important - I have seen major improvement with the SU4 Beta and wondering whether if I wait for a couple of months the optimisation will get even better?

I just got a 5090 in a "Black Friday" deal. I upgraded from a 7900XT.

I was planning on upgrading in the new year but I feared the DRAM shortage might affect GDDR7 availability.

 

On 10/28/2025 at 8:14 AM, Boomer said:

Still stupidly and unecessarily overpriced...can't see rewarding that behavior a good thing.

Still the case.   And you can't blame stock levels or AI.

On 10/28/2025 at 9:57 AM, Lucky38i said:

You're always going to be waiting for the next best thing to come out.

If you can afford the 5090, get the 5090. It's really that simple.

The way NVIDIA is going they've been having very marginal increases in performance for each generation lately anyway.

 

On 10/28/2025 at 12:14 PM, Boomer said:

Still stupidly and unecessarily overpriced...can't see rewarding that behavior a good thing.

 

On 10/30/2025 at 2:58 PM, SayAgain said:

Yes and No … because of DLSS and frame gen, the CPU limit wouldn’t really impact that processing as it’s all GPU.  So even if CPU is limited, a 5090 could still be a benefit when combined with specific graphics settings that are all GPU bound like (Ray Tracing, DLSS, etc.).  It’s no longer as straight forward as it used to be … your logic is sound a few years ago, but today the equation is more complex.

 

On 10/30/2025 at 7:28 PM, micstatic said:

VRAM though.  That's a very important differentiator between the two.  

Agree with all the above.

Having said that, I have a 9800x3D and a 5090 and I'm incredibly happy running in 4k at anywhere between 50 and 130fps depending on how I choose my settings.  Most time i use TAA=100 and 2x framegen and limit fps to 100.  Max settings.  Expensive but sweet.

3 hours ago, kevinfirth said:

Most time i use TAA=100

Eeew … make that 5090 work and stop the FG non-sense … you don’t need it 🙂 

1 hour ago, SayAgain said:

Eeew … make that 5090 work and stop the FG non-sense … you don’t need it 🙂 

Each to their own, I like the high frame rate smoothness, it has always made my shudder when I look out of a side window at 200knots and the terrain motion hasn't been super smooth.

I had a very long internal debate about spending a dumb amount of money on a 5090.  Now that I've had it for a few months I have absolutely no regrets, no VRAM cares and I'm flying with pretty much everything maxed out in MSFS2024.

If you can spend the money, go for it.