With less than two months to go into the release of Microsoft’s new showpiece Flight Simulator 2024, the flight sim looks like upping the benchmarks for anything we have seen go before it.

The flight sim team has posted on its X account exactly the kind of hardware we are going to need to be packing in order to get the game looking like all the amazing videos and screenshots we have seen. If you want to run it in VR in something like a Pimax Crystal Light as Microsoft did at a recent showcase event, you are going to be drifting towards the higher end of these specs we would imagine.

Microsoft Flight Simulator PC Specifications

A highly detailed set of specifications awaits with in-depth breakdowns for both Intel and AMD setups. The minimum spec should be well within everybody’s reach but the scary-looking ‘ideal spec’ is suggesting a GTX 4080 or equivalent to get the game looking anything like its best. That’s at least a $1000 graphics card on top of potentially a $200 version of the game. You could just about fly to the other side of the world for real for that, but of course, it wouldn’t be as much fun cramped up in Economy.

Let’s take a look at those specs.

Category
Min Spec (AMD)
Min Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)
Recommended Spec (AMD)
Recommended Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)
Ideal Spec (AMD)
Ideal Spec (NVIDIA/Intel)

OS Version
Windows 10
Windows 10
Windows 10
Windows 10
Windows 10
Windows 10

Direct X Version
DX12
DX12
DX12
DX12
DX12
DX12

CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i7-6800K
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Intel Core i7-10700K
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
Intel Core i7-14700K

GPU
Radeon RX 5700
GeForce GTX 970
Radeon RX 5700 XT
GeForce RTX 2080
Radeon RX 7900 XT
GeForce RTX 4080

VRAM
8 GB
4 GB
6 GB
8 GB
12 GB
12 GB

RAM
16 GB
16 GB
32 GB
32 GB
64 GB
64 GB

Storage
50 GB
50 GB
50 GB
50 GB
50 GB
50 GB

Bandwidth
10 Mbps
10 Mbps
50 Mbps
50 Mbps
100 Mbps
100 Mbps

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