I have noticed that the PMDG seems to get about 15% more FPS than the iFly. Has anyone noticed this? I searched on Google, and nobody seems to have posted a comparison between these two 737s. 

 

 

I'd say they're close for sure... if I had to pick one, I'd say the PMDG 737 is the slightly better performer. Overall, they both perform well though.

I'd say i don't bother with checking with fps, don't know why the obsession is with it. Got better things to do than chasing around in circles in gaining that extra 1 to 5 fps 🙂

Edited April 22, 20251 yr by pete_auau

The PMDG 737 is performing a bit better, but the ifFly isn‘t far off. The PMDG 737 is generally considered the best performing (bigger) airliner. But there‘s a reason: Textures are low res in some places in the the VC (saves on VRAM -> better performance) and on the external model, and obviously there‘s no cabin.
Considering how good the iFly looks, I‘d take the slightly worse performance any day.

The PMDG is a 'native' app, wouldn't that make a difference?

 

6 hours ago, pete_auau said:

I'd say i don't bother with checking with fps, don't know why the obsession is with it. Got better things to do than chasing around in circles in gaining that extra 1 to 5 fps 🙂

I agree. Don't understand why so many folks get caught up on frame rates. Both models work and fly very well. Can't wait to get both in 2024.

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

The PMDG 737 is performing a bit better, but the ifFly isn‘t far off. The PMDG 737 is generally considered the best performing (bigger) airliner. But there‘s a reason: Textures are low res in some places in the the VC (saves on VRAM -> better performance) and on the external model, and obviously there‘s no cabin.
Considering how good the iFly looks, I‘d take the slightly worse performance any day.

I can't say that I have seen any obviously low resolution textures in the VC of my PMDG 737-600.

2 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

The PMDG 737 is performing a bit better, but the ifFly isn‘t far off. The PMDG 737 is generally considered the best performing (bigger) airliner. But there‘s a reason: Textures are low res in some places in the the VC (saves on VRAM -> better performance) and on the external model, and obviously there‘s no cabin.
Considering how good the iFly looks, I‘d take the slightly worse performance any day.

737 has a cabin, why do you think it doesn't? Just walk through the cockpit door...  It's not as high res as the 777 cabin but it's absolutely there.  I have multiple camera views in the cabin.

What low res textures in the cockpit?  

 

I bought the Max (iFly), since I was tired of flying the NG while using P3D. Very smooth performance of the Max in MSFS2020 for me. I'm using Lossless Scaling.

I only fly the Ifly version now. Don't  really care about the fps.

It's not enough of a concern to warrant any babble

FPS is like money, people concerned about it don't tend to have any.

1 hour ago, flyingscampi said:

FPS is like money, people concerned about it don't tend to have any.

Unless they have counterfeit money, aka Frame Generation!  I can't stand visual issues associated with FG so FPS does matter here.  

13 minutes ago, Noel said:

Unless they have counterfeit money, aka Frame Generation!  I can't stand visual issues associated with FG so FPS does matter here.  

I felt the same way until I tried Lossless Scaling. On my Radeon it bumps the fps up to my monitor's refresh of 165 hz and there are no visual issues whatsoever.

2 hours ago, flyingscampi said:

I felt the same way until I tried Lossless Scaling

Great, are there any issues whatsoever with LS, for NV 4000 series?