Hey flight simmers,
I intend to buy a new graphic card soon. At the moment, I have a Palit RTX 2060 Super (8GB), and I'm running a i7 9700 @ 4,4 GHz and 16 GB DDR4 RAM. The cpu runs nice and quiet. My problem with the graphic card is not even so much performance, but temperatures and noise. I can't stand the whining of the 2 fans running at 2500 rpm at 85°C, even more in MSFS (which I hardly fly yet), less so in P3d v4, but bad enough there. And if I'm gonna upgrade anyways, I would look forward for some better performance, too, as I'm running an ultrawide monitor at a 3440 x 1440 resolution now, and that forced me to make some compromises with the settings in P3d.
Now, I've found the RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM, for example here: https://www.alternate.de/EVGA/GeForce-RTX-3060-XC-GAMING-Grafikkarte/html/product/1727976
But in various forums I've read recommendations for the RTX 3060 ti as the better choice, but this one only has 8 GB VRAM.
Now, my question is: How important is VRAM and what makes the ti "better" despite having less VRAM?
I could see a biiiig improvement in loading times at my last upgrade (GTX 970 4GB => RTX 2060 super 8GB), and I concluded that this would be the benefit of having a lot more VRAM. Furthermore, I've read how important VRAM would be for P3d v5 - which I don't have yet, but who knows... I guess MSFS wouldn't complain either about 12 GB VRAM, right?
I know, a 3070 ti would give me both, but apart from the much higher price, I fear this would be overkill compared to my CPU anyway (??).
Thanks in advance.
Dominik