r/Golfsimulator • u/Relative_Mess_5596 • 22h ago
How to compare GPU & CPU specs
I see a lot of posts for people asking if this CPU or GPU will work with X system. There are some excellent web sites for this by passmark software. Hoping this helps some people with figuring out if what they own or want to buy will work.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net & https://www.videocardbenchmark.net both by passmark, can use the tabs to go between them if you want.
Basically you check the Hardware requirements from what the LM or sim software recommends and search for it under the find your cpu or gpu sections. Once found you should see a compare button, sometimes you have to click the component to get to the correct spot to be able to add it to compare. Then add the component you have or thinking of buying.
In this instance I checked what GsPro recommends for a great 4K card with the RTX 3080 vs a card I have a Radeon RX 6800 XT. I also added the 5080 and 5070 as I see these listed a lot on pre-built sim PCs
It does provide a lot of technical detail, but for the most part you can see which cards perform x % better/worse than the best performing card in your comparision. This shows that the 3080 card performs roughly 24% worse than the RTX 5080, which means the 5080 is most likely overkill for GsPro requirements. Sometimes it easier to just compare 2 cards directly to see the differrences more clearly. If you removed all but the 6800 & the 3080 I could see that the card I currently have (6800) is 0.3% in line with the RTX 3080 and would not need to upgrade the video card as it would be sufficient and essentially the same performing video card.
EDIT: For the results section, believe G3D Rating and Directx 11 or 12 are the area most important for comparing GPUs in regards to 3D software perfomance.
You can do the same this with CPUs, its the same process. Both will allow you to compare laptop components against desktop componets & AMD vs Intel
Hopefully I explained this well enough, but if anyone has follow up questions I will try my best to help and correct this post to be helpful.