My actual MSRP 9070 XT Sapphire Pulse continues to bring smiles to me each day. Sometimes I just look into the side panel and think this is a good one!
It replaced my 3070 Ti which I bought during the worst of times at £930 (not so bad, I sold a 5700 XT that it replaced for £600, crazy shit)
StormKiller1
Love my 9070xt and the drivers are stable(ex 3080 wasn’t).
I just wish i could set 4.3 1920 x 1440 270hz resolutions for csgo but amds software cant do it.
Or im doing something wrong
DoktorMerlin
Can’t wait for the new drivers to hit Linux, so that I can play Hollow Knight at even more FPS
laxusdreyarligh
How much worse is the 9070 compared with the xt version? because in my country the xt version is 850$ and the normal version is 700 and idk if the xt is worth 150 more.
Pretency
My 9070 has become unstable with driver improvements, particularly when overclocked. Where it worked well on release, it has become worse over time. I have to run it stock.
HuckleberryOdd7745
If this is 1440p native I wonder if it applies to 4k with upscalling.
definite_mayb
I’m a big AMD fan but I can’t live without rtx HDR when playing on OLED or SPS when playing in VR.
If amd had the software features nvidia has I could still be team red, but until then the MSRP 5070ti I snagged works well for my 165hz 4k setup
Glad to see AMD continuing the fine wine meme though
boatbouy326
My 9070xt is crashing in all the games i play 🙁
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SneakySnk
I’ll probably get one once the MSRP goes down, my 6700XT still holds up decently.
shield173
Quick question does he mention anything about the results of the 9070 with the new drivers? Or did he not test them?
soggybiscuit93
It’s a matter of framing.
You can be optimistic and think “AMD increased performance after launch for free”
Or you can see it as “The 9070XT launched with performance below what it was capable of, and it is now fixed”
Framed-Photo
If I could get a 9070xt for it’s MSRP in Canada I would happily get one, but they’re all over MSRP by almost $200 after tax, more so if we take the current conversion rate instead of the one they used at launch. I haven’t seen a 9070xt get anywhere *near* MSRP since launch.
5070ti meanwhile, has been selling on and off for MSRP for over a month if not more and isn’t even hard to snag anymore.
null-interlinked
Went with the 5070TI. It’s just that the FSR4 promises didn’t come to fruition, it isn’t picked up by devs as much as I would hope. Also the premium boards are largely missing. The 7900XTX had the wonderful Nitro variant which had really a great heatsink. The 9070XT heatsink is quite meager in comparison.
shapoopy723
9070xt drivers for me have been stable in everything except for battlefront 2. That shit decides to crash several times a night on the slightest change from default tuning settings, but games like MH Wilds have no issues whatsoever.
zZIceCreamZz
The latest 5070 Ti drivers are are still causing regular crashes for me in multiple games.
monchota
Why do people, take one statistic and think that proves something?
ItsMeIcebear4
AMD’s drivers are doing great.
I know all the AI features make it hard, and frame gen i agree shouldn’t be equivalent to performance. But realistically, in every game that has DLSS4, I run quality and immediately gain like 20% or so. Also most games that even are any sort of heavy lifting for these cards already have upscaling thats good…
Awoken1729
Unless something better value releases in the next two months I’ll be building a computer with the 9070xt. For the money it’s an absolute beast!
ShadonicX7543
I’m happy for AMD users getting the performance they should have to begin with. But honestly for me even if their performance was 20% better I would still never give up the Nvidia suite of features.
Raw raster performance is probably the least impressive thing I enjoy nowadays, strangely enough. And I *cannot* watch videos/movies/shows/animes without RTX VSR and RTX HDR anymore.
LewAshby309
My point of view is that if you get hardware that gets better over time because of driver updates that the hardware simply was bottlenecked by that software before.
A gpu should have sufficient drivers at launch.
Both, AMD and Nvidia, have issues with drivers while AMD had several gens for which significant performance gains through newer drivers were achieved.
I get that people who make a purchase decision based on the launch performance value are happy that they get more performance for free. My issue is that some buy under the premise that the gpu will get better over time. For some it’s even the last bit for deciding for the purchase.
At the end still happy for the ones that enjoy almost 10% more performance. In an expensive time for GPUs at least something.
DRAC0R3D
The world when its my time to get a Nvidia card…
disapparate276
Any improvements for the 30 series? I’m on a 3070ti with driver 565.90. everything has been stable for me so I’ve had no reason to update
baza-prime
where are the new drivers?
zeus1911
Newer drivers aren’t good for my 7900xt, min fps just gets lower and lower.
Blake_411
When is the driver update?
seanc6441
It’s gotta hurt to be a 7900XT/7900XTX owner right now ngl. Atleast there’s reasons for the nvidia alternative and presumably in time they will fix the garbage drivers they released lately.
But the 9070XT claps the 7000 series in almost every way for the majority of gaming.
andoke
The 9070 XT is the new RX 480/580 it’s gonna be in good sweet spot of price/performance for awhile.
wilsonbbear
Was this for all the latest rx cards? Did the 9060xt get a boost as well??
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My actual MSRP 9070 XT Sapphire Pulse continues to bring smiles to me each day. Sometimes I just look into the side panel and think this is a good one!
It replaced my 3070 Ti which I bought during the worst of times at £930 (not so bad, I sold a 5700 XT that it replaced for £600, crazy shit)
Love my 9070xt and the drivers are stable(ex 3080 wasn’t).
I just wish i could set 4.3 1920 x 1440 270hz resolutions for csgo but amds software cant do it.
Or im doing something wrong
Can’t wait for the new drivers to hit Linux, so that I can play Hollow Knight at even more FPS
How much worse is the 9070 compared with the xt version? because in my country the xt version is 850$ and the normal version is 700 and idk if the xt is worth 150 more.
My 9070 has become unstable with driver improvements, particularly when overclocked. Where it worked well on release, it has become worse over time. I have to run it stock.
If this is 1440p native I wonder if it applies to 4k with upscalling.
I’m a big AMD fan but I can’t live without rtx HDR when playing on OLED or SPS when playing in VR.
If amd had the software features nvidia has I could still be team red, but until then the MSRP 5070ti I snagged works well for my 165hz 4k setup
Glad to see AMD continuing the fine wine meme though
My 9070xt is crashing in all the games i play 🙁
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I’ll probably get one once the MSRP goes down, my 6700XT still holds up decently.
Quick question does he mention anything about the results of the 9070 with the new drivers? Or did he not test them?
It’s a matter of framing.
You can be optimistic and think “AMD increased performance after launch for free”
Or you can see it as “The 9070XT launched with performance below what it was capable of, and it is now fixed”
If I could get a 9070xt for it’s MSRP in Canada I would happily get one, but they’re all over MSRP by almost $200 after tax, more so if we take the current conversion rate instead of the one they used at launch. I haven’t seen a 9070xt get anywhere *near* MSRP since launch.
5070ti meanwhile, has been selling on and off for MSRP for over a month if not more and isn’t even hard to snag anymore.
Went with the 5070TI. It’s just that the FSR4 promises didn’t come to fruition, it isn’t picked up by devs as much as I would hope. Also the premium boards are largely missing. The 7900XTX had the wonderful Nitro variant which had really a great heatsink. The 9070XT heatsink is quite meager in comparison.
9070xt drivers for me have been stable in everything except for battlefront 2. That shit decides to crash several times a night on the slightest change from default tuning settings, but games like MH Wilds have no issues whatsoever.
The latest 5070 Ti drivers are are still causing regular crashes for me in multiple games.
Why do people, take one statistic and think that proves something?
AMD’s drivers are doing great.
I know all the AI features make it hard, and frame gen i agree shouldn’t be equivalent to performance. But realistically, in every game that has DLSS4, I run quality and immediately gain like 20% or so. Also most games that even are any sort of heavy lifting for these cards already have upscaling thats good…
Unless something better value releases in the next two months I’ll be building a computer with the 9070xt. For the money it’s an absolute beast!
I’m happy for AMD users getting the performance they should have to begin with. But honestly for me even if their performance was 20% better I would still never give up the Nvidia suite of features.
Raw raster performance is probably the least impressive thing I enjoy nowadays, strangely enough. And I *cannot* watch videos/movies/shows/animes without RTX VSR and RTX HDR anymore.
My point of view is that if you get hardware that gets better over time because of driver updates that the hardware simply was bottlenecked by that software before.
A gpu should have sufficient drivers at launch.
Both, AMD and Nvidia, have issues with drivers while AMD had several gens for which significant performance gains through newer drivers were achieved.
I get that people who make a purchase decision based on the launch performance value are happy that they get more performance for free. My issue is that some buy under the premise that the gpu will get better over time. For some it’s even the last bit for deciding for the purchase.
At the end still happy for the ones that enjoy almost 10% more performance. In an expensive time for GPUs at least something.
The world when its my time to get a Nvidia card…
Any improvements for the 30 series? I’m on a 3070ti with driver 565.90. everything has been stable for me so I’ve had no reason to update
where are the new drivers?
Newer drivers aren’t good for my 7900xt, min fps just gets lower and lower.
When is the driver update?
It’s gotta hurt to be a 7900XT/7900XTX owner right now ngl. Atleast there’s reasons for the nvidia alternative and presumably in time they will fix the garbage drivers they released lately.
But the 9070XT claps the 7000 series in almost every way for the majority of gaming.
The 9070 XT is the new RX 480/580 it’s gonna be in good sweet spot of price/performance for awhile.
Was this for all the latest rx cards? Did the 9060xt get a boost as well??
Nividia meatriders crying rn