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RC23:
[Moved from a JRVR thread on the MC29 board]

The above described performance of JRVR sounds very promising... almost too good. ;)  Exactly there I would like to arrive and will therefore use JRVR.

My application will be BR in HT and MS Flight Simulator (MSFS). For this I will set up a separate PC, which will initially cover only 2K.

As a projector I use a Mitsubishi HC5 (HC5 is the same as HC9000), which provides a great picture on a 100" screen. TV - a Philips 43" - from the Full HD founding era of 2010, also with good picture quality despite its age. I think in two years I'll switch to 4K. 

Besides that, I'm not a classic gamer. Only MSFS appeals to me, where already 30..35fps are enough for smooth gaming.

In HT, I would like to scale BR from 2K to 4K later.

I'm still wavering between AMD and Nvidia for the graphics card. Does it make more sense for HT and MSFS as an application to get a used Nvidia 1060 Ti, 1070, 1660 Super or 2070 Super or better to go for a modern AMD Radeon RX 6600? For the 6600 speaks that here already HDMI 2.1 is supported. I have reserved 300 to 500 Euros for the graphics card as a price range.

The hardware requirements of MSFS are considerable. MSFS is only played at 30..35fps but in 4K I very often see modern Nvidia cards with 3070 or 3080. Since I will still be in 2K, I can choose significantly smaller graphics cards.

My plan so far for the configuration:

Win 10 Pro 64bit
MSI MAG B550M Mortar | Ryzen 5 5600X | 32GB DDR4 3200 Crucial Ballistix | XFX Speedster SWFT 210 Radeon RX 6600 with 8GB | PSU Seasonic Focus GX 750W ATX 2.4 | Philips 42PFL7404H Full HD TV | Projector Mitsubishi HC5 (both with 1080p)

Are there any reasons that clearly see Nvidia as the best way to go, or is a Radeon RX 6000 a good solution? The performance of an RX 6600 is just below an RTX 3060 and well above the RTX 3050 that is now on the market.

Review of the RTX 3050 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-review-evga-xc-black

Review of the RX 6600 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx-6600-review-xfx

In about a month I will buy the PC parts and build the PC. After that I will test and work with JRVR.

BryanC:
For your light use case I would eschew the discrete GPU altogether and purchase a 5600G or 5700G. I'm not a MSFS expert so check out specific benchmarks for that hardware.

jmone:
Personally, I'd suggest a discreate NVidia based GPU simply because:
- Most HTPC use NVidia and hence you will get better support from the community on any issues as it is easier for others to test and replicate
- A discrete GPU (even a 2nd hand 1660Ti) is far more powerful than any iGPU giving you more options for JRVR processing and better headroom
- My iGPU works with the NUC in basic settings but the little fan is screaming along.  I'm not too obsessive about fan noise, but a dedicated GPU has larger, slower and quieter fans.

BryanC:
It also depends on your content. If you're primarily using 720p/1080P Blu-Ray or TV content on a big screen then Jinc or AI upscaling is really nice to look at, and you'll want a beefy discrete NVidia card as jmone suggests. However, If you are primarily watching 4K UHD then the exotic upscalers don't make a lot of difference for the added power draw.

I just think that the iGPUs are getting good enough at this point to obsolete the low-end discrete graphics for HTPCs and light gaming. Laptops don't make great HTPCs (loud cooling like jmone also mentioned), but you can go a little higher end and throw a passive cooler on the 5600G or 5700G and get silent Jinc + tonemapping in my experience. And for the price of discrete GPUs right now you could upgrade the APU a couple times over down the road for the cost savings, not to mention the power savings (energy prices are up 27% this year).

Basically, don't buy a low-end GPU. Either go big for the headroom and upscaling or stick to high-end integrated.

jmone:
FYI - If you have not seen it, I've posted some screen shots of the performance of JRVR running on iGPU, 1660Ti, 3090 on a range of material (BD 1080i, BD 1080p, even UHD 59.94fps) being sent to a UHD screen.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,132075.0.html

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