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GPU Recommendations for P3D V4 and V5

gray eagle

gray eagle

SOH-CM-2025
I read the GPU recommendations for P3D V4.5 and 5:



Is there any difference between:

8 GB + (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti) *** Recommended for P3D V4.5


8 GB + (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Ti) *** Recommended for P3D V5

Or are these the same cards with different numbers (1080/2080) ?

and what is the TI all about?
 
YoYo said:
Are You sure about 8Gb for RTX 2080Ti? Mine has 11Gb ...
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It's all written ere

System Requirements – Prepar3D v5

Minimum

Recommended
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 1809 Microsoft Windows 10 1909
Computer Processor
Quad Core @ 3.0 GHz Octa Core @ 3.7 GHz + (e.g. Intel Core i7/i9)
Computer Memory
4 GB 16 GB DDR4/2666MHz +
Hard Drive Space
50 GB, with at least 35 GB on C:\
(3 GB for the SDK)
M.2 or Solid State Drive (SSD) is strongly recommended
Graphics Card Video Memory
4 GB 8 GB + (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 Ti) <<<< I got that from P3D
Graphics Card Other
DirectX 12 with feature level 12_0 or greater
Other
Administrator Rights (for installation only)
Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
1920×1080 minimum screen resolution for primary display


They do make those and they are not cheap

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GAMING-RTX-2080-TRIO/dp/B07GJ3ZD69
 
I guess 8 GB + means 8 GB upwards, so 11 GB like the RTX 2080 TI is been recommended for best flightsim entertainment :running:...
Indeed it's a little weird, because I can't find any GTX 2080...just a GTX 1080 - and yes, this one was aviable with 11 GB (1080 TI) but I think it will no longer be sold...(officially)
 
There is no way I would ever recommend a 2080 TI. It is indeed the king of the hill when it comes to performance. Nothing can touch it, right now. But it is insanely expensive. The price vs performance ratio of the 2080 TI (and 2080) just don’t make sense to me.

Look at the Nvidia Gtx 1080/2070, or the Radeon RX 5700XT.
 
I would totally agree with this. Something like a RTX 2070 Super has a much better price/performance ratio. Besides, the 2080 ti would probably be bottlenecked by your CPU, especially in P3Dv4.5. Also, whilst AMD has come out with some really great products both on the CPU and GPU side lately, I would still recommend Intel since they still run flightsims the best. Maybe an RX 5700/5700XT for a Vulcan or DX12 based sim but anything DX9-11 based I hands down recommend Nvidia.
 
There is no way I would ever recommend a 2080 TI. It is indeed the king of the hill when it comes to performance. Nothing can touch it, right now. But it is insanely expensive. The price vs performance ratio of the 2080 TI (and 2080) just don’t make sense to me.

Look at the Nvidia Gtx 1080/2070, or the Radeon RX 5700XT.
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I will sell my cheaper soon, just Im waiting for new Ampere GPU, so RTX3080Ti :biggrin-new: . It will kill Turing ; > for 20-30% of performance.
 
I have a RTX 2070 Super (8GB) on my rig and it runs great with my i9700k up to 4.9 GHz. Being tested, most tests tell it is nearly as good as the RTX 2080 (without Super), but much cheeper.
So nobody can tell what happens near future, but if you have money enough to buy a RTX 2080TI, do it. For the rest of us :very_drunk: a RTX 2070 Super may be okay so far...
 
This should run anything that is thrown at it!

nVidia GeForce RTX Titan (1350MHZ/1770MHz) 24GB GDDR6 (@1400MHz)​

Physically to large IMHO, but it does rock for a relatively old piece of hardware.

:biggrin-new:


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Responses to a similar requirements question I posted in the P3D v5 beta forum back in January...

We only fully support devices at the DirectX 12 or 12_1 feature level. We added a warning message for 11 and 11_1 devices.
Prepar3D may still run but certain features may not work as expected.
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and

The critical feature you need supported is Resource Binding Tier 2. GPU spec sheets don't often list this, but there is a helpful table on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_levels_in_Direct3D#Support_matrix
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Hope this helps.
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