I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it’s like this is the way everything was always meant to be.
HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.
I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).
No ragrets.
No regerts.
Team red 4lyfe (again).
If you’re not playing the fancy games with all the ray tracing, and you aren’t playing at 4k, the 2070 is still just fine in terms of power. I definitely didn’t need the 9070 XT. I would have been just fine with a 9060xt, 9070gre or 9070. I did want to bump to 12 or 16gb of memory. And I scored a good enough deal combined with credit card points to jump all the way to the 9070xt. This one will follow me for another 6 years at least unless some paradigm shift happens.
I will say that you’ll enjoy more frames at a lower power draw if you don’t crank up your settings on the new cards.
But it was really all of the polish that finally wore me down. Spent a year playing with the outermost 10% of the screen flickering sometimes in some games. I never could figure it out. Got tired seeing the HDR box in games knowing I had monitors that supported it but a card that broke font rendering with it enabled. Tired of some games randomly crashing because suddenly the drivers broke again. And the 20xx series is the next one to lose support entirely.