Comparing cards.

[bloodhunter]

I am into flight simulation namely X-Plane 11 and it is quite GPU VRAM hungry but i am wondering a couple of things.

I currently have an EVGA GTX1080 Classified card and i have been looking at the EVGA RTX2080 ti Black Edition as a replacement. My concerns are clock speeds as my current one is about 500mhz faster than the 2080 ti I've been looking at.

Is clock speed an important factor to consider or is just the upgrade enough to make a difference as the extra VRAM will be handy as the simulator will easily exceed 8gb if over medium settings is used.

 

[kevman]

Yes clock speed is important but a whole host of other things are as Well - Ram speed,cuda cores etc. Just cause clock is lower on 2080ti does not mean it not quite a bit faster overall, which it would be no doubt

However I am run a few flight sims (dcs, il2) and these tend to be cpu limited. So going from say 1080 to 2080 ti in this case may not give you as much benefit as for some other games as the cpu is the bottleneck. Best thing to do is check the flight sim forums to see what the early adopters are reporting.

 

[bloodhunter]

Yes clock speed is important but a whole host of other things are as Well - Ram speed,cuda cores etc. Just cause clock is lower on 2080ti does not mean it not quite a bit faster overall, which it would be no doubt

However I am run a few flight sims (dcs, il2) and these tend to be cpu limited. So going from say 1080 to 2080 ti in this case may not give you as much benefit as for some other games as the cpu is the bottleneck. Best thing to do is check the flight sim forums to see what the early adopters are reporting.

I know they say that the 1080ti is a big improvement over the 1080 ind X-Plane is CPU and GPU dependant and depends on the settings in you choose so performance wise the settings i have for CPU work well but i struggle to get over medium settings for GPU bound settings where those with the same CPU and ram as me can almost max out the settings that are GPU bound.

 

[Quartz]

If VRAM's the issue then you need look no further than the RTX Titan.

 

[kevman]

I know they say that the 1080ti is a big improvement over the 1080 ind X-Plane is CPU and GPU dependant and depends on the settings in you choose so performance wise the settings i have for CPU work well but i struggle to get over medium settings for GPU bound settings where those with the same CPU and ram as me can almost max out the settings that are GPU bound.

Well x plane maybe in a better position than dcs/il2 optimisation wise. If you think you are gpu bound than the 2080ti will certainly give a good performance boost plus it has the ram to boot.

 

[bloodhunter]

If VRAM's the issue then you need look no further than the RTX Titan.

Agreed, its the price though. I have just sold a camera lens for £4000.00 but i aint pumping most of that back in to buying a GPU.

 

[bloodhunter]

I went and bought my new card yesterday. In the end i got an EVGA RTX2080ti FTW3.