Suitable GPU for playing fs 2020

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You should be able to run most of the games at 4K according to the manufacturer website
https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/nitro-...

But I was not able to find nothing about 144fps. Probably you need to lower the resolution or tweak the graphics to find a balance

bottleneck how? the graphics putting too much info too quickly for the gpu? You think the mobo and cpu need to be upgraded?? those both are still pretty high end even though far from state of the art today...

MSFS2020 is as highly CPU heavy as it is GPU heavy. I've got a similar processor to you yours (i7 8700 non K version) and an RTX 3070. Just getting a stable 60 is a struggle. You'd need something more akin to the 12th Gen i7 for the frame rates you're after.

CPU's don't just handle game logic, they continually 'draw' the scene for the GPU. The GPU takes this data and renders it. If the GPU can't receive the frames to render from the CPU fast enough, you'll get a bottleneck.

bottleneck how? the graphics putting too much info too quickly for the gpu? You think the mobo and cpu need to be upgraded?? those both are still pretty high end even though far from state of the art today...

MSFS2020 is as highly CPU heavy as it is GPU heavy. I've got a similar processor to you yours (i7 8700 non K version) and an RTX 3070. Just getting a stable 60 is a struggle. You'd need something more akin to the 12th Gen i7 for the frame rates you're after.

CPU's don't just handle game logic, they continually 'draw' the scene for the GPU. The GPU takes this data and renders it. If the GPU can't receive the frames to render from the CPU fast enough, you'll get a bottleneck.

Couldn't agree more, MS 2020 is pretty much one of the worst games for being CPU bottlenecked, the OP can throw a top end Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPU at this game but without a monster of a CPU, the game will just be bottlenecked.

Personally I would save up and go for a full system build, and if it was me, id go with an AMD processor over an Intel (though I can understand why people LOVE Intel CPUs)

bottleneck how? the graphics putting too much info too quickly for the gpu? You think the mobo and cpu need to be upgraded?? those both are still pretty high end even though far from state of the art today...

you will max out the cpu and still only be using about 60% of gpu, hence bottleneck, the cpu may sound high end but newer cpu's are much faster at processing. sim games use just as much cpu as they do gpu too. and to have an even better experience it is recommended to have 50Mbps broadband or higher too as a lot of the assets are streamed.