Good day friends
I am currently flying my full size B-738 simulator in my basement with 4 external monitors (2x 32" TV monitors and 2x projectors) connected to a single graphics card. Yes it is a mixt of displays because of economy I took what I had at home. Sooner or later I will update but the simulator room has no room for ceiling mounted projectors so I will transfer to 4x TV monitors sooner or later.
The graphics card I use today is a GeForce ASUS GTX 1+60 Dual OC, 6 GB with a maximum resolution of 7680 x 4320 which I also use, four monitors at 1920 x 1080.
It works okay but I cannot use complex scenery or advanced graphics before I end up with whatever it is called, stuttering, or hacking frame rates.
My computer is a single computer working with an Intel i7-8700K 3.7 GHz processor and a memory of 48 GB DDR4
Now I have been looking at upgrading my graphics card to a 16 GB card and was looking at this;
ASUS Radeon 16 GB, RX7600 XT Dual OCWould I be able to use better graphics setting with that graphics card instead of the 6 GB card I use today?
What I see is that the new 16 GB card has a BUS of 128 bit and my present has 192 bit, does that affect anything?
I am far from a millionaire so I look for a graphics card within my budget and the ASUS Radeon 16 GB can I get for about USD 450 which is very okay to me. I can spend a bit more but not extremely much money.
My simulator works very well on present settings and I have been flying all world around two times in the past 3 years visiting all commercial airports in all capitals of the world which has been real fun. But I want to use more detailed scenery.
I use ORBX scenery addon, more or less everything they have and find that very okay, but I want to be able to add settings in P3D v4.5 that I am running my system in.
Currently I am moderate settings and not too much details in landscape and when flying in Germany with all addons ORBX has for Germany and my setup as is, it is very hard in bad weather but okay in good weather, no clouds and no other traffic.
I also use VOX ATC communication to be able to speak to the computer, it works very well.
The aircraft I use is PMDG 737-800 and have no problems at all.
I use virtual cockpit for outdoor view but I zoom everything out from cockpit windows so I have no moving parts or any VR in cockpit while flying that is visible.
Why I use PMDG, well it has a full functioning aircraft which others do not have and I will not discuss this issue.
Am also using Active Sky, for weather.
The thing I want to know is if more or less any 16 GB graphics card will perform better than my present 6 GB graphics card with heavy load and addon traffic and weather?
Anyone have any comments on choice of graphics card?
Have a wonderful weekend friends.