3090 overkill for 1440p?

[Dama]

Hey there,

 

just a quick question, as in the title: would a RTX 3090 be overkill for running DCS (non-VR) in 1440p? Or asked the other way round, would a 3080 suffice? Doing mostly DCS and some P3D, not much else gaming-wise.

Your input would be greatly appreciated :)

 

Kind Regards, Raffael

[Lurker]

Absolutely yes.

[BitMaster]

Many who run a 1080ti @ 1440p say they are quite happy with it, including me. So a bit more won't harm but you definitely would be way over the top with a 3090.

 

Anyway, check what the AMD cards can deliver, reviews should be around soon. They seem to be faster in rasterization and have more VRAM, both is good for DCS.

[Wolfheart]

Yes. Complete overkill. It's even overkill at 4K. I run 5120x1440p which is a little less pixel heavy than 4K and I got very little performance uplift by going from a 2080ti to a 3090. Most of my other games have seen significant performance increase over my old GPU. In AI heavy missions, I get 0... yes... 0 extra frames in DCS. DCS world is completely CPU bottlenecked when you get to a certain point. Thankfully, I didn't buy the 3090 for DCS.

[Dama]

Thanks a lot for all your input, much appreciated :)

[manashttu]

Here is a thread of my experience of 1080ti to 3080 on triple 1440p monitors (which is 20%+ more pixels than 4k). In short, the cpu will remain a bottleneck at times in DCS---but the 3080 enables the use of higher levels of antialiasing. On a single 1440p monitor, the 1080ti can handle DCS with antialiasing, too.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/reality/pc-hardware-and-related-software/291266-rtx-3080-experience-so-far-2d-triples-user