Colif breaks into your house and steals your Nvidia GPU

[Zed Clampet]

Money is a consideration, though not the final say. Do you go with the AMD 9070 XT or the Nvidia 5070 TI?

Advantages of the 9070 XT:​

Theoretically $150 cheaper
At 1080p with no ray tracing or AI features, the 9070 XT out performs, if just barely, the 5070 TI.
At other resolutions the benchmarks are very close.
AMD's AI features like FSR are improving, but if we don't count DLSS, FSR and frame gen, the 9070 XT is the obvious better value, so in competitive games where you may not trust frame gen or DLSS, the 9070 XT would seem to be the better choice.

Advantages of the RTX 5070 TI​

Uses GDDR7 which is an advantage in some situations
In real world use cases, the 5070 TI uses about 50 watts less
DLSS and frame gen offer massive, high fidelity FPS gains
Due to additional AI advancements, the RTX 5070 TI performs AI features as well or better than the RTX 4090.

add your own plus/minus*



As for me, it's a hard decision if I rule out AI usage. I suppose it depends on how important that $150 difference is to me because I see the new DLSS and frame gen as being very important. I suppose if it wasn't spending my last dollar that I'd go with the 5070 TI even if I didn't work with AI.

 

[Alm]

It's a tough decision for me too. I think it depends on how nVidia's AI things like dlss improve over time. I don't work in machine learning so that's not a consideration, but for gaming I'm currently quite happy with my 7900XT which is pure raster power. I saw some footage of a 5000 series nvidia card using dlss and it looked a little bit blurry when the camera was moving.

So I'm waiting to see how these AI gaming technologies progress. I don't want to pay through the nose unless it's for the best visual performance.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

When a lot of people are building rigs they come up with a set budget they dont want to go over, so if the 9070XT is available for 150 less and performs comparably then its a good option.

I dont have Digital Foundry grade eyes, I found older versions of FSR to work fine in a lot of games when I had an AMD card, so if their latest version is better than DLSS3 as reported then I wouldnt think it much of a difference.

Power though. Hmm, its quite nice to have a 200W card with a reasonable sized cooler on it thats still pretty quiet at 100% load. Thats not a problem for all I know.

 

[Why_Me]

I game and surf the net so whatever is cheapest.

 

[Colif]

....

how Do I answer?

I would buy a 5090 with my ill gotten gains. I might like AMD but I know what is the best if I am spending other peoples money

Or save it and wait a generation

 

[Zed Clampet]

....

how Do I answer?

I would buy a 5090 with my ill gotten gains. I might like AMD but I know what is the best if I am spending other peoples money

Or save it and wait a generation

AMD is well known for making wild claims about their GPUs that end up good, but not quite what they said it was going to be. I will be very surprised if AMD ever out-engineers Nvidia. That doesn't mean they can't make better cards than Nvidia, though.

 

[Colif]

It doesn't bother me if I am wasting your money
If it were mine own, I wouldn't be so unconcerned.