NVIDIA promises double FPS in Microsoft Flight Simulator with upcoming RTX 40-series GPU’s
After many months of rumours, NVIDIA has finally unveiled this week its next-generation GPU series. The RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards are officially announced and expected to arrive in markets in October and November respectively.
MSFS simmers are always on the lookout for potential performance improvements, so we’re happy to report that NVIDIA’s newest cards seem to deliver on that front. During the company’s official presentation, NVIDIA previewed the massive FPS gains in MSFS with the use of DLSS 3 in the upcoming graphics cards. We’re looking at a 100% performance boost with DLSS 3 on vs off, which translated into roughly double the number of frames per second!
Sadly, DLSS 3 is an exclusive feature of the new RTX 40xx cards. Owners of the current generation RTX 30-series will be left with DLSS 2, which, coincidentally, is being officially introduced today in MSFS with Sim Update 10. That said, we’re still waiting to see how DLSS 3 in MSFS compares to DLSS 2… that would be a welcome comparison!
Now, this promised performance boost will come with eye-watering prices… which are frankly quite disheartening. The RTX 4090 will launch at $1,599 in the US, £1,679 in the UK, and… €1,949 in most of Europe. The RTX 4080, albeit more moderately priced, will still start at $899 in the US (for the 12GB model. There will be a 16GB version too). This translates to €1,099 in Europe and £949 in the UK. Ouch…
Julio
Nvidia: Look at me, I am the scalper now!
Mark Thomas
I am barely finished paying off the 2060 I bought last year… for me, putting anything over to 3 series into my rig would be like putting a racing transmission into a Ford Pinto…
t5s_blanco
I hope most people are cynical about this nonsense. This is clearly nvidia marketing. The headline of this post is borderline clickbait. “Promises” … that’s not really what was said or done. These are shiny lights and soaring music to make you think this is huge. Peel back a few layers here, and it’s not even remotely clear what you will get other than what you will get is clearly not double the performance. They don’t explain in this video nearly anything about what the performance comparison was to or how it was set up as a test. Further, these 4090’s are going to be like 800W TDP. Just for the card. The companies that assemble these don’t have the designs to provide a long term reliable solution, and 800W is a lot of energy to dissipate. These cards are not going to hold up as well as past cards, and are going to cost like double.
The reality is nvidia was loving life for 2-3 years with the mining explosion driving both high price (high margin) and high volume. When that evaporated, gamers are the only users, and falling prices and volumes are something that shareholders/owners hate.
Beanboy
I’m glad the new 4000 series is coming out. Now prices of the 3000 series will go down and I can get one. :p