Unfortunately, the 5070 Ti also outperformed it on a lot of benchmarks.
It really sucks that AMD stopped trying to compete with nVidia on high end graphics cards. Instead the best current generation AMD cards are basically equivalent to their top end from their previous generation, and are significantly worse than the best of nVidia’s current generation.
Yeah I ended coughing up the extra dough for the 5070 Ti mainly because of significantly better RT performance and DLSS. And at the time the Ti was only ~$150 more. I only regret giving nvidia more money. The card itself has been amazing.
I also wish nvidia had a real competitor at the top end. We used to have a bunch of gfx companies competing with each other. Now if you want a top card you have to pay nvidia thousands of dollars.
The 9070 XT is a decent premium range card but I’d only go for it if I had a strict budget or if I was gaming on Linux.
I am gaming on Linux and I don’t want to buy the 9070 XT. If I buy that now, I’m basically buying a top of the line card from 4 years ago. Now I’m debating whether I wait another 2 years to buy whatever becomes the top of the line card AMD makes next time they release a new card, or go with nVidia even though their Linux drivers often suck.
I’m hoping next time their best card is competitive with nVidia’s best card. If their best card is only equivalent to the nVidia 5090 but it comes out in 2027, I’ll be annoyed.
I thought that was only in certain games? I did a lot of research when I upgraded in Jan. 2025 and landed on the Ti because it still outperformed the XT in ray tracing by about 25%. The XT was better in raster but not by a lot.
I will say the nvidia app is really buggy compared to the AMD app. When I had my AMD 7000 series, the recording feature and FPS counter worked just fine. Meanwhile, the nvidia replay and fps counter are completely broken so I had to install 3rd party software.
RTX HDR makes the nvidia app worth it but every now and then the app turns it on globally which messes up native HDR. Crazy how many bugs I’ve found in nvidia’s software.
I have a 9070xt and my friend has a 5070 ti. I have a 5950x CPU and he has a 5800x, so they are very close in gaming.
What we found is that when you don’t have a bleeding edge CPU, Nvidia falls behind due to their higher CPU overheads. This does not show up in online reviews as reviewers use the fastest, most current CPU as is standard practice.
Hardware unboxed did a great video on this, showing 20-30% swings towards AMD when a core i5 or a non-3D vcache CPU is used. Especially in 1% minimums.
I would rather have 20% better 1% lows than 20% better average frame rates when using ray tracing.
Oh that’s interesting. I wonder how much of a difference it would make with my 9900x. Too bad I didn’t have this knowledge a year ago or I could’ve saved myself some cash. All things being equal (or close enough) I’d rather give my money to AMD than Nvidia as well
I know they have facilities built on stolen Palestinian land employing the fuckers who will do incredibly unwholesome things if you let them have a puppy.
Make good GPUs, sell them at reasonable prices. Call me if you need any further advice.
amd: best we can do is nvidia -50usd
The 9070 XT was like $300 cheaper than the 5070 Ti for a pretty long time
Unfortunately, the 5070 Ti also outperformed it on a lot of benchmarks.
It really sucks that AMD stopped trying to compete with nVidia on high end graphics cards. Instead the best current generation AMD cards are basically equivalent to their top end from their previous generation, and are significantly worse than the best of nVidia’s current generation.
Yeah I ended coughing up the extra dough for the 5070 Ti mainly because of significantly better RT performance and DLSS. And at the time the Ti was only ~$150 more. I only regret giving nvidia more money. The card itself has been amazing.
I also wish nvidia had a real competitor at the top end. We used to have a bunch of gfx companies competing with each other. Now if you want a top card you have to pay nvidia thousands of dollars.
The 9070 XT is a decent premium range card but I’d only go for it if I had a strict budget or if I was gaming on Linux.
I am gaming on Linux and I don’t want to buy the 9070 XT. If I buy that now, I’m basically buying a top of the line card from 4 years ago. Now I’m debating whether I wait another 2 years to buy whatever becomes the top of the line card AMD makes next time they release a new card, or go with nVidia even though their Linux drivers often suck.
I’m hoping next time their best card is competitive with nVidia’s best card. If their best card is only equivalent to the nVidia 5090 but it comes out in 2027, I’ll be annoyed.
Not recently. AMD overtook them with driver improvements. See hardware unboxed’s revisit videos.
I thought that was only in certain games? I did a lot of research when I upgraded in Jan. 2025 and landed on the Ti because it still outperformed the XT in ray tracing by about 25%. The XT was better in raster but not by a lot.
I will say the nvidia app is really buggy compared to the AMD app. When I had my AMD 7000 series, the recording feature and FPS counter worked just fine. Meanwhile, the nvidia replay and fps counter are completely broken so I had to install 3rd party software.
RTX HDR makes the nvidia app worth it but every now and then the app turns it on globally which messes up native HDR. Crazy how many bugs I’ve found in nvidia’s software.
I have a 9070xt and my friend has a 5070 ti. I have a 5950x CPU and he has a 5800x, so they are very close in gaming.
What we found is that when you don’t have a bleeding edge CPU, Nvidia falls behind due to their higher CPU overheads. This does not show up in online reviews as reviewers use the fastest, most current CPU as is standard practice.
Hardware unboxed did a great video on this, showing 20-30% swings towards AMD when a core i5 or a non-3D vcache CPU is used. Especially in 1% minimums.
I would rather have 20% better 1% lows than 20% better average frame rates when using ray tracing.
Oh that’s interesting. I wonder how much of a difference it would make with my 9900x. Too bad I didn’t have this knowledge a year ago or I could’ve saved myself some cash. All things being equal (or close enough) I’d rather give my money to AMD than Nvidia as well
I have those thoughts too. 2 years ago, I bought 32 GB of RAM and thought, I don’t need to spend more for 64GB, I can always upgrade later.
Regarding the 9900, I think an AMD GPU will have an advantage, as the performance per core is quite similar to the newer Ryzen 5600 they used to test.
Getting rid of windows and switching to Linux will probably make a big difference as well. Windows is getting very very bloated.
Do you have a source that’s not a video?
Techslot did something similar I see.
https://www.techspot.com/review/3193-gpu-for-budget-pc-scaling-test/
Under CPU constrained environments the AMD 9060XT even outperformed the 5070 non it.
Not for these GPUs.
But I took 2 screenshots for you that they did with midrange CPU’s. They also did one for entry level, CPUs, but that’s a bit unrealistic.
These are 11 game average at Ultra settings and medium/low.
Nice Gamer’s Nexus reference
It’s even wilder when you know that Lisa Sue and Jensen Huang are cousins.
I’d also like if they weren’t actively complicit in genocide. that would be cool.
In what way are they complicit in genocide?
amd? no clue. nvidia? substantially.
How so?
I know they have facilities built on stolen Palestinian land employing the fuckers who will do incredibly unwholesome things if you let them have a puppy.
Yuck, I didn’t know they’d built a facility there.
Companies: I’ll take your entire stock! And I’ll pay more than you’re asking!