Microsoft Flight Simulator - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date: Aug 18 2020
Genre: Simulator
developer: Asobo Studio
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Microsoft Flight Simulator is a next-generation flight simulator with a variety of detailed aircraft recreations - from light aircraft to wide-body airliners. Test your piloting skills by completing missions and challenges. Experience night flights, real-time weather and atmospheric conditions, and a vibrant, dynamic world.
Create your own route and go anywhere in the world! Microsoft Flight Simulator allows you to take the controls of 20 aircraft, which are recreated as accurately as possible and have unique flight models. In addition, 30 airports were manually recreated.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API |
Microsoft Flight Simulator supported Windows10
The priority and primary graphics API for Microsoft Flight Simulator is DX11.
| Maid of Sker |
Microsoft Flight Simulator is powered by the Asobo game engine and uses information from Bing Maps, providing access to more than 2 petabytes of data from the cloud. Procedural generation technologies, photogrammetry and machine learning are used to photorealistically and accurately recreate and place in the right places three-dimensional buildings, trees, relief objects, and the like.
The simulator features 37 thousand airports, 80 of which have received high-quality processing.
The French studio Asobo Studio had not previously been involved in the creation of avisimulators, but over the years it has collaborated with Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios in various areas, in particular, working with Kinect and HoloLens technologies, and already had experience creating a game with an extremely large open world - Fuel . The world of Fuel was built using procedural generation: areas of the real world were reconstructed from satellite images, and specific objects like trees were added to them procedurally.
In 2016, Jörg Neumann, then working at Microsoft and later becoming the development manager for Flight Simulator, started a flight simulator project with Asobo: the development would depict an airplane flying over Seattle and its surrounding area, using Bing satellite maps and procedural generation technology to recreate the terrain the same way it was done in Fuel. Later that year, the prototype was shown to Phil Spencer, head of Xbox Game Studios; Spencer initially mistook the demonstration for a video recording of a real flight and asked in bewilderment “why are we watching this video”? Neumann showed him that what was happening on the screen could be controlled - this was not a recording, but a full-fledged virtual environment.
Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced at E3 2019 on June 9, 2019. The game was released on August 18, 2020 for Windows, the game will be released on the Xbox One platform a little later.
| GRAPHICS SETTINGS |
Microsoft Flight Simulator has a fairly wide range of graphic settings. We have both basic and advanced settings available.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
| VARIOUS SMOOTHING MODES |
| GENERAL VISUALS AND GAME PHYSICS |
The graphics in Microsoft Flight Simulator are not bad, and in some places they are simply breathtaking:
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI |
| Multimedia equipment |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 Pro 2004 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 452.06 AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 20.8.2 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner Action! FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at maximum and ultra game's default graphics quality settings.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX video cards are provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| TEST GPU |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920x1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is performed on the most powerful CPU and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- High-end
- Ultra +
The maximum
When resolved 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1650 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce GTX 1080.
When resolved 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1650s. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 5600 XT or GeForce GTX 1070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions GeForce RTX 2080.
When resolved 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon VII or GeForce RTX 2060s. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 2070s.
Ультра
When resolved 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1650s level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1660s. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions GeForce RTX 2080.
When resolved 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1660s. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060s.
When resolved 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 2070s. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 with different anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the chart at the request of the reader.
- High-end
- Ultra +
GameGPU
The maximum
When resolved 1920x1080 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 5300 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 5900 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 6200 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 6000 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 7200 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 7300 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5800 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7300 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 8100 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 8900 megabytes.
Ультра
When resolved 1920x1080 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 6700 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 7000 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 8200 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 6900 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 8300 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 9100 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160 video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 5700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7400 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 8700 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 11200 megabytes.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor tests(by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- High-end
- Ultra +
The maximum
When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames was shown by Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 processors, and an FPS rate of at least 60 frames can be achieved by level solutions Core i 9 10900.
When using video cards AMD processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 5 4770.
Ультра
When using video cards NVIDIA Ryzen 25 5 or Core i 2400 5 processors showed an acceptable figure of at least 4770 frames.
When using video cards AMD processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames Ryzen 5 3400 or Core i 7 4770.
- Ultra +
GameGPU
The game can load up to 20 threads, the most optimal for it are 8 full cores.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 10900K with 16 GB DDR4 4000 MGz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- High-end
- Ultra +
GameGPU
The maximum
When resolved 1920x1080 RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes 13000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 12500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 12200 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 10600 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 9800 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes 13700 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 12900 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 12300 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 10600 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 10600 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160 RAM consumption of a video card system with 4 gigabytes 14200 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 14000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 12800 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 10900 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 10900 megabytes.
Ультра
When resolved 1920x1080 RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes 13400 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 12900 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 12500 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 11600 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 11100 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes 14500 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 13000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 12800 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 118000 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 11900 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160 RAM consumption of a video card system with 4 gigabytes 15900 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 14500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 13100 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 122000 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 12100 megabytes.
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