9070XT with and w/o FSR for ground quality

[Viking1]

I spent two hours rerunning a batch of tests using AMD Adrenalin utility in KOREA. Set up a flight to an airfield strike in the F51 and flew the same scenario a bunch of times. Always took the fps and gpu measurement at the same distance from the airfield. All tests in UHD on 9070XT.

I ran these tests :

FSR on Quality with FSR AA - 75fps
FSR OFF with FSR AA - 60 fps
No FSR with MSAAx2 - 55 fps (looks as good as 8x when running UHD)
 

My interest was not in max fps, but rather max ground quality with playable frames. The results show that on my system I can use either No FSR w FSR AA or no FSR with MSAAx2.

The visual results hardly vary at all with the last two, but GPU goes up with FSR off and FSR AA on. I then clicked SHARPEN option and ground detail from a distance was just slightly refined. Here are some close cropped images.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 18 by Viking1

[Valis]

13 minutes ago, Viking1 said:

No FSR with MSAA - 25 fps

Is that on 8x?

2x is more than enough for MSAA, especially at 4K

Edited August 15 by Valis

[Viking1]

See above for the result with MSAA x2

 

 

 

Edited August 18 by Viking1

[AndreiTomescu]

On 8/15/2026 at 8:37 PM, Viking1 said:

GPU use and fps go up dramatically with FSR off and FSR AA on

This is hugely interesting for me, since i run a 9070xt paired with a 9700x.

so:

1. Does your test confirms that 

- upscaling FSR : OFF

- antialiasing FSR AA

is a good choice for best fps in cpu bottlenecks? Or i got it wrong ? 

2. You discovered that FSR upscale OFF improves fps ? (As in "GPU use and fps go up dramatically with FSR off and FSR AA on.") Because in a gpu limitation, the fps should go up with fsr on, not off, as it did in your test, with 15 +.

3. What cpu do you have?

4. The fps were left uncapped in Adrenaline right ?

5. In the 3 tests, do you know how was the 99th% lows ?

Thank you, @Viking1, this is a very, very useful thread/test

[AndreiTomescu]

I would love to crank up a bit the visual settings, but only those impacting the gpu, not the cpu . And despite some searching, I dunno precisely what are those cpu bound. 

@LukeFF: an official info regarding what setting impacts cpu/gpu and how much each would be very useful, and could solve many mysterys here.

Like a table, chart, something. We had that done in the old forum, sort of.

[Viking1]

Ryzen 7 7800x3d 

Fps uncapped in Adrenalin

PC Spec
CPU Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: AMD 9070XT
LG Ultragear 32 144Hz
AMD Driver version: 26.7.1
RAM: 64GB DDR5 @ 6000
OS WIN11

 

All Tests in full UHD with icons OFF

Edited August 18 by Viking1

[AndreiTomescu]

1 hour ago, Viking1 said:

Ryzen 7 7800x3d 

master boss!!! 🙂 i had to conserve my marrige and thus be content with the 9700x... 🙂 🙂 

[Viking1]

6 minutes ago, AndreiTomescu said:

master boss!!! 🙂 i had to conserve my marrige and thus be content with the 9700x... 🙂 🙂 

I know, I know, I'm spoiled but it took a long time to get here  😉

Images added above..

Edited August 18 by Viking1

[AndreiTomescu]

the 99th % fps are very close to fps, but i think that huge L3 cache from the x3D processor has a hand in this 🙂 

The 9070xt i find very, very powerful, my itsy bitsy fps drop is cpu bound. But just in career. In scripted campaign, none, smooth as butter. But @Jaegermeisteralready explained why: in his campaign, the ground assets are activated only upon player approach. In career, they are always active.

Thank you very much!

Still , a chart with  graphic options and their impact on CPU/GPU might be very useful, imho.

I'm sure the devs might help us with this.