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.
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.
Do you have a source that’s not a video?