Update from AMD 6900XT to RTX 5080 short Performance compare

[Limaro]

Hi there,

I just want to share my experiance upgrading the system as the results are quite impressive.

As the title says, I upgrated my GPU. Before I did so, I created a small session in Afghanistan and recorded the replay with MSI Afterburner before I made the changes. Afterwards, I run the same clip recording again with MSI Afterburner. These are the results:

AMD 6900 XT

23-05-2025, 17:14:30 DCS.exe benchmark completed, 5091 frames rendered in 74.281 s
                     Average framerate  :   68.5 FPS
                     Minimum framerate  :   53.5 FPS
                     Maximum framerate  :   92.9 FPS
                     1% low framerate   :   39.8 FPS
                     0.1% low framerate :   39.7 FPS

RTX 5080

24-05-2025, 15:38:24 DCS.exe benchmark completed, 12052 frames rendered in 77.281 s
                     Average framerate  :  155.9 FPS
                     Minimum framerate  :  125.4 FPS
                     Maximum framerate  :  197.8 FPS
                     1% low framerate   :   39.4 FPS
                     0.1% low framerate :   22.1 FPS

Honestly, I did not expect this increase of performance. By test sites I expected about 80%plus, bus this is now 127% plus.
I am playing 2D in 4k. My CPU is a AMD 5800X3D, 64 GB DDR4 3200 RAM, X570 Mainboard

I know this a very short "test" and would not fulfill verbose analysis. Just one run - in Afghanistan in a F/A18 from inside and outside, no other planes and just ~75 seconds. However, I think this can help one or another when thinking to upgrade.

@ED It would be great to have a common benchmarking function to get more reliable results across the whole community.

Kind regards

Limaro

Benchmark_Afgh.trk options.lua

[rotan1999]

Thanks for posting this. I was thinking of buying a nvidia 5090.

But with your post i realise that a 5080 is more than enough