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 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.