Anybody upgrade from a single GTX980 to GTX1080 yet?

[dogdish]

Any significant frame rate increase?

[chik]

Very little to none.

[chik]

Very little. Not worth the high investment for a simulator.

 

 

 

@ moderators

Please remove double post. Fingers are faster than my CPU!!!:p

[Bambo22]

for what sim is probably most important. P3D and Xplane will see alot more benefit then say Fs9 or FSX

[dogdish]

Found a video on youtube, FSX SE 100+ FPS average

 

 

He got his i7-5960X over-clocked though, would have liked to see what the GTX1080 does with stock CPU clock.

[E-Buzz]

Video looks great, with high FPS and buttery-smoothness.

 

But...

 

It also looks like a bone-stock, or vanilla, installation. I'm wondering what the performance would be with some demanding addons. I'd love to see that same kind of smoothness with TrackIR installed - Although, methinks that while FPS may drop a bit, the performance will still be very, very smooth.

 

Dang! Might have to start saving for a 4K TV... Still not sure about shelling out that much $$$ for the GTX1080 yet.

 

Does chasing this FSX performance nirvana ever end? ;)

[dogdish]

I thought he was using TrackIR the way he is looking around in the cockpit.

 

BTW, what is he using to monitor all those hardware stats? Is that FRAPS or something else?

[E-Buzz]

Hi dogdish,

 

To me, it doesn't look like trackir, more like panning using a hat switch or something... With trackir you get 6 degrees of movement - Left, Right, Up, Down, Zoom in, Zoom out, just by moving your head in the direction desired (I can also see sideways if I tilt my head - it's a great program when it works :D). I didn't see that being demonstrated during the video - maybe he/she chose not show that.

 

I was wondering the same thing about what monitoring program was used - very nice data capture - that 3rd core's load is almost always at 100%, while others are around 2%. I guess FSX (and SE) still isn't great at distributing the workload across all available cores...

 

E-Buzz

[dogdish]

Guy said the monitor tool is MSI Afterburner...

 

https://gaming.msi.com/features/afterburner

[E-Buzz]

Sweet!

 

Downloading now - Thanks!

 

E-Buzz

[MrUnSavory]

A Test based on vanilla FSX is not a valid test.

[dogdish]

Sweet!

 

Downloading now - Thanks!

 

E-Buzz

 

I installed it too. Took a little configuring to get it to display while FSX was running, but I think this is the best tool I've ever seen for checking Affinity Mask settings. That guy on youtube obviously didn't even have his set up. On my i7-5960X, FSX is more balanced across all the cores.

 

There's also tutorials on youtube to set the MSI Afterburner up also.

[dogdish]

A Test based on vanilla FSX is not a valid test.

 

As I said, that was the one and only GTX1080 test I've seen. If you can find something better, post a link.