I am willing to spend $600 on a GPU upgrade, but obviously there is tax and other fees involved. Should I bother with the 9070? I would love to pick it up at MSRP, but the cheapest board available is at least 50-70 dollars over. The 5070 seems dead in the water but at least it is cheap. Or third option: buy a 9060xt and wait another generation or two for better cards?
I just upgraded my monitor to 1440p so I would love to game higher.
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Obviously pick rx 9070 no questions asked
9070 is a strong card it has more vram, but if you want ray tracing and better upscaling i think you should go for the 5070, it’s great for the price and still preforms geat it only has less vram
You would be getting a +9% raw performance difference over the 5070. Seems worth $50 to me. Unless RT and frame-gen are dealbreakers for you the 5070 might be better in those departments.
9070 for sure, do not even think about the 5070 with that VRAM.
Depends. If you only play games, definitely. But if you do something else, I’m not entirely sure if I’m right but the 5070 might be better. But I personally am going to buy 5070 ti cuz it performs in games comparably with RX 9070XT, and it’s great for video editing.
Conclusion: If you only play games, take the RX 9070XT.
If you do other stuff, save up more for 5070 Ti. Don’t take the 5070
I hope this helps😊
9070 is better in both raw perf and vram. Def worth the 50 if u ask me
I’d say go with the 9070 because of the 16gb vram.
The 5070 is very limited in that regard.
Newegg had the 9070 xt for 600 (msrp) yesterday. They’re occasionally dropping it. Could hold out for that.
On the 1440 peezy min 16gb vram my guy
A 9070 16 GB
I would go with the RTX 5070, you’ll get DLSS no matter what in any game. I have been using AMD (and even have a 9070 XT) and from my experience using both over the years, FSR implementation in most games are slow or non-existent. (Now FSR4 looks good and people say that more games will be implemented, but people have been saying this since FSR was basically released).
Now as of the 12gb VRAM, if you plan on using the GPU for 5+ years I would go for the 9070, now if it’s for 2 years or so I would definitely go with the 5070, you will basically not notice the difference in day to day (probably in just 1 game that will just be unoptimized anywhere) and the 5070 have other better tech like their frame gen (which runs so much better than the AMD one), CUDA if you ever going to use it, etc.
And for reference, over the years I have used the Rx 480, then Rx 5700 XT, then the RTX 3070 ti, then the Rx 7900 GRE, then the RTX 5070 (for like 2 months this year until I return it because I got my current GPU for MSRP) and currently I’m using the Rx 9070 XT.
9070.
13-15% faster
More VRAM
Dual Video Encoders that the 5070 lacks.
Absolutely worth it
Always, always, always pick the option with more VRAM
Yeah. A few extra gigs of vram are nice.
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9070 is worth it. Will feel better for longer. More games going to saturate 16gh of vram in the very near future
shouldn’t we take the GPUs themselves into consideration without looking at the Vram amount?
I bought the 5070, but ONLY because the cheapest 9070 was $700 in my region. You should absolutely get the 9070 for about 10% better performance and the extra VRAM.
Get the 9070.
9070 all day.
If you want to play unoptimized AAA(A) slop at max settings then choose something with 16gb+ vram(honestly even 16gb might be too low for future slop at max settings), if you don’t mind turning one setting down from max to very high or high then 12gb is more than enough.
Yea. Almost always.
9070 is better in raw performance also more future proof due to the 16gb ram.
5070 is better for RT and frame generation but you may find it lacking in performance in a year or two or if you wanna do 4K.
I’d snipe for a 9070XT, far superior to both, or, if you value RT very much, a 5070ti is even better, but, judging strictly from a performance per price standpoint, the 9070XT is superior.
If the final choice is between the vanilla 9070 and 5070, I’d go for the 9070 every time. 50 buck difference is a no brainer imo.
Yeah, it really is
At this price point its pretty much:
Do you want 9% extra raw performance? go for the 9070.
Do you want more features in the shape of better upscaling technology like DLSS4? go for the RTX 5070. Also if you don’t mind running DLSS quality in most games, you will have a better performing card on average then the 9070.
I was in the same situation as you. doubting between those 2 cards. i decided to go for the 5070. reason being that i don’t mind running games with DLSS put on quality at all. which nullifies the 9% raster advantage the 9070 has over it because the RTX 5070 performs better with DLSS4 FPS wise, then the 9070 performs with FSR.
Worth it
I think if you are planning to keep whatever card you get for more than 3 years, I’d go for the 9070 simply because of the extra VRAM. I went with the Founders Edition 5070 at Best Buy because at the time the cheapest 9070 was $650+. It’s been really great so far at 3440×1440.
If you use Linux via dual boot or even exclusively (or may in the near future) I’d absolutely opt for the AMD solution. Although Nvidia drivers have gotten better on Linux, AMD most often still performs better with less headaches. Also, Nvidia, as others have noted, does have really good features. DLSS is some very impressive tech.
If I were in your position, the 9070 would be my choice, especially for the extra VRAM. Yeah upscaling negates it some, but I would still rather have 16GB over 12 going forward. FWIW, I have a 7700 XT which has 12GB, it performs well, but I would rather have had the 7800 wich has 16GB. Only reason I didn’t get that is because back when I purchased the card, the only 7800s available were via scalpers, and I was not about to pay $900 for that card rofl.
In the end, however, you can’t go wrong either way. They are both nice cards, but the extra VRAM, the fact it performs well across multiple operating systems (and the fact I do enjoy Adrenalin software when on Windows) gives the AMD card an edge here.
Wish I could write more about ASRock vs PNY cards. I am not familiar with either with regard to quality of GPUs. If anything maybe look into that and see if it sways your decision on way or the other.
Sorry to bum y’all out. Just ordered RX 9060 XT 16gig. GPU market sucks and i’ll just wait a year or two for things to be interesting again.
Not to mention the 9070 can be modded to get xt performance
9070 is more futureproof than 5070
Go for 16vram
9070 for sure
I’d honestly say the 9070 or 9070 XT would be a better fit for the budget. Especially if you find the XT closer to MSRP, which is possible. I saw one at the local Best Buy last week, only 2 left in stock next to a bunch of 50-series cards. It was around the neighborhood of $630 USD, although currently their website shows the same Gigabyte one for like $729 big oof. If you have a Microcenter near you, I’d be busting down their door to give them my shekels. I love Microcenter, wish we had one around here.
My biggest gripe with AMD is that features and performance at release are sometimes limited until newer drivers come out – but all that means is that if you’re thrilled with the baseline like I was with my 7800 XT, it isn’t so bad when you find the same benchmarks or games getting an extra 5-10 FPS several months later after getting more fully fleshed out drivers.
Take that with a grain of salt though, I’m probably just as bad as NVidia fanboys except I’m on team red. Just keep your eye on sales and try to be patient, I know just how hard it is when you want the thing YESTERDAY but you have to wait an extra week or two.
Between these two, at these prices, it’s the 9070 for sure.
9070 is about 10% faster, has the memory to raise the eye candy and even if it’s supposedly worse in certain areas vs the 5070 I don’t think it’s as big of a deal. The 5070 tends to run out memory in the latest stuff for trying to use the very same features that should’ve made it superior to the 9070 in the first place, making them useless until you drop internal resolution down for other reason besides insufficient VRAM.
I play in 1440, and sometimes 4k60hz on a 2080super.
I get probably near 70-100 fps in the oblivion remaster on 1440p. A 5070 wouldn’t be dead in the water for that. 1440p is arguably what it’s meant for. It’s probably twice the performance of my gpu and I almost never have to go down to 1080p. Just food for thought.
9070
What games are you playing and are you on a time limit?
If you don’t have a workflow that will massively benefit from the NVIDIA feature set, then getting the isnt bad at all 9070.
Current slop is going to become greater slop so if you’re the kind of gamer that wants basically every setting maxed out (except RT cause NVIDIA is better) and really only do gaming and light workstation tasks then the 9070 is quite appealing at that price.
Either card is good though, especially if you’re okay with not running super duper max ultra mega settings at 1440p.
OP going off the sponsored results smh