Video cards compariason for P3D V3.4

[gray eagle]

I pretty much narrowed my selection for a new video card to one of two Nvidia types for P3D V3.4 and that fits my budget.

One is:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING Graphics Card
MFR # 06G-P4-6161-KR

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...x_1060_sc.html

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060:
CUDA Cores: 1280
Base Clock: 1506 MHz
Boost Clock: 1708 MHz
Memory Speed: 8 Gbps
Configuration: 6 GB
Interface: GDDR5
Interface Width: 192-bit
Bandwidth: 192 GB/s
Technologies Microsoft DirectX: 12
OpenGL: 4.5
CUDA: Yes
Vulkan: Yes




or:

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING Graphics Card

MFR # 06G-P4-6163-KR
Real Base Clock: 1607 MHz / Real Boost Clock: 1835 MHz; <<<< This one comes overclocked. A modest gain over the first GPU ^
Memory Detail: 6144MB GDDR5
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC - Small Size, Huge Performance. Height: 4.376in - 111.15mm; Length: 6.8in - 172.72mm; Width: Dual Slot
What you see is what you get! – No additional software required to achieve listed clock speeds
DX12 OSD Support with EVGA Precision XOC
3 Year Warranty & EVGA's 24/7 Technical Support


https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...60_gaming.html

There is about a ~$25 spread between the two. Both have 6GB memory -Should be enough muscle for P3D.
The fan speed is quite at %70
I have a GeForce 660 now so this would be a big improvement over what I have.

[Penzoil3]

» System Requirements

System Requirements – Prepar3D v4

	Minimum	Recommended
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) [N editions require Media Feature Pack]	Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
Computer Processor	2.2 GHz	Quad Core 3.5 GHz (Per Core) +
Computer Memory	4 GB	16 GB DDR4/2666MHz +
Hard Drive Space	40 GB (3 GB for the SDK) M.2 or Solid State Drive (SSD) is strongly recommended
Graphics Card Video Memory	2 GB	8 GB +
Graphics Card Other	Full DirectX 11 Support
Other	Administrator Rights (for installation only) Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 DirectX 11 1024×768 minimum screen resolution for primary display

[Naismith]

Yes the 8Gb requirement is what swayed me (and $$$ ) towards the AMD RX 580. Which is just about a direct competitor to the 1060 from NV. Plus no more pfaffing about with NV Inspector.
An additional benefit was the nerdy guy behind the counter appraised me of Bitcoin mining for 10 minutes ....... I left the store with a new card, an extra 16Gb of DDR4 Ram but none the wiser when it came to the bitcoin craze.

[gray eagle]

I use P3D V3.4 ^ so a 6GB GPU should be just fine - I researched this V3 chart before shopping.

[patful]

I have the Gigabyte GTX 1060 Windforce 2 OC 6GB at 1582MHz/1797MHz Boost. Runs P3D v4 very well with nearly all sliders fully to the right except water effects (medium), shadows (high and high), cloud distance 90, and texture resolution at 30cm. FPS locked at 40, and it rarely drops below that, no stutters. The highest my VRAM has gone is 2.5GB over NYC with A2A aircraft, ASP4/ASCA (1024 DXT clouds), UTX, and GEP3D. If I try to move the water effects past medium, P3D crashes, even with all other settings set to low. Just a quirk of my card, I guess.

I have tried raising both the core and memory clocks, with no apparent increase in performance from either, so I set it back to the factory overclock. Your mileage may vary though. I'm thrilled with the 1060, works fine for my purposes. If you use ORBX regions or other heavy sceneries, I can't offer any advice.

Pat

[Butcherbird17]

The 1060 will handle v4 with no problem using high settings. Mine runs it very well. (specs in sig)
If your case can handle a dual fan card I would go for that instead of a single fan card.

Joe

[Penzoil3]

Sorry G. E., misread that. I have the Radeon RX 580 myself, it does indeed handle P3D 4 well. For P3D 3.4, the 6gb card will do very well.
Sue

[patful]

I failed to mention that I'm at 1920x1080.

[Daveroo]

i have the geforce gtx 1060 6gb card and p3dv4.1 runs just fine,btw im running three monitors now too