13900k & RTX 3080ti vs 13900k & RTX 4080 - Nvidia Face Off

[Heli Shed]

Hello legends, Helii-heads and choppers, hope this short note finds you all well - greetings and salutations to you from the Heli-Shed.

I've just swapped out a RTX 3080ti for a RTX 4080 in preparation for more additional DCS World content on Heli-Shed and thought it was a really good time to crank up the settings and pit these two against one another.

It's in three parts.  Part 1 - Nvidia Control Panel Test Settings.  Part 2 - DCS World Test Settings - these are just 'test' settings and i certainly don't recommend you fly normally with these.  Part 3 - Short flight pitching them both against one another.  The flight uses close ups, distance, scene switching, combat etc - all the tricks in the trade to burn the beasties being matched - in this case both cards were over 98% pretty much the whole time. 

I'll be putting a few other videos together giving some advice on how to make DCS world look the best for your system as I've seen some advice out there which is just plane wrong to be honest.  Everyone's system is different but, if you follow a few basic rules, you'll have a really smooth experience and completely immersive.  As someone with an IQ of 3, it really isn't that complicated either - if I can do it, damn sure you can too.

Wishing you all well, pop along to Heli-Shed on Youtube and please do me a favour and sub me.  Thank you muchly!!

 

 

 

Edited February 15, 2023 by [WF]-Templar
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[derneuemann]

When is part 2 coming? find it...

Will also be tested in VR, because in 2D such performance is almost uninteresting. VR is the performance hog.

Perse awesome that you are testing that will be interesting for many.

Edited February 13, 2023 by derneuemann

[Mr_sukebe]

I watched the vids, nice one.

My take was that the 4080 was seemingly between 15-35% faster.

Is that how it felt?

Right now, sounds not particularly cost effective.  However, when DCS supports DLSS that might change things and if DCS supports DLSS3, then I could see that functionality being really useful 

[Heli Shed]

@derneuemann - part 2 and part 3 is there mate with another that is a conclusion.  There is also another video which i believe releases friday which pitches the 4080 vs itself - max Fps vs Max hz.  I will be testing in VR yes but to be honest, I've done that with a 1080ti and it wasn't actually the hardware but, setting up DCS right and the OQ2 right in the firstplace.  However, I will test for you and others so that hopefully, will also be of benefit.

 

@Mr_sukebe - agreed - about that yes although as you can see it Part 3 of the series there are significant other benefits too - lower heat, lower energy, better utilisation / matching with a modern and powerful cpu.  In short, I think it is well matched with the 13900k which wasn't remotely bothered and I think it'd be ok too with a 12900/700 or even 11900/11700 but I think lower than that and you would be cpu bound with this bugger but............................  have any of us, ever............ been CPU bound with DCS world?  Not me......

 

Edited February 13, 2023 by [WF]-Templar