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Jono8 said:
Not sure its worth upgrading from a 4070ti to be honest.

Probably best waiting for next gen or a mid gen refresh at least.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Wait for the Super refresh with 3GB GDDR7 modules.A £600 RTX5070 Super 18GB based on the RTX5070TI/RTX5080 chip would be a decent card IMHO.
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Yeah I may just stick atm, the refresh MIGHT be worth waiting for.
Thanks guys
 
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Screenshot taken from Kitguru 9070XT review. This was a snapshot taken while the video was running.


FSR4 seems to be working better in Performance mode than Quality mode. It's giving DLSS4 a run for it's money and sometimes better at resolving certain details.
BTW..the Kitguru review is a pretty good indicator of 9070XT OC performance vs all the popular cards. Highly recommend that you watch it all.
 
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uscool said:
Did you not try other retailers? Ocuk crashed but I managed to add pulse and gaming oc at MSRP into basket at another retailer

No regrets from me , not enough uplift and don't like the look of either, I still feel for some reason I would have bought the MBA reference if it existed
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Couldn’t even see a buy button elsewhere even though showing in stock lol.

I thought I should try with OCUK mainly as I’ve bought most of my equipment from them over the years and basically I am loyal unless their pricing is out of whack (usually isn’t).

I’m ok with my 7800XT. Tried path tracing on high on Indy Jones with FSR Quality and Frame Gen on and got a respectable 70-90 fps. I didn’t really see that much difference to eye candy so turned all upscaling and frame gen off and path tracing off but everything else on Supreme and got 100-110 fps with no appreciable degradation in visual quality.

Maybe not getting a card was the universe telling me I didn’t need to yet.

EDIT All Frame gen and FSR and Path tracing on high used 15.8gb vram! Wonder how the 16gb of the 9070XT will hold up long term?
 
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GhostDog1981 said:
Same, decided against paying £60 more than yesterday for a pulse. It would eat away at my enjoyment of the 9070XT had I committed this cardinal sin due to FOMO.
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I went for the reaper in the end.

Didn't go for any of the high end cards I can't justify the difference, this is a massive leap in performance for me so an extra 60 quid I can tolerate.

I will return it and swap it for. Gigabyte OC though if I can get one next week.

OC and 3x8pins at the same price is a decent difference.
 
GhostDog1981 said:
Same, decided against paying £60 more than yesterday for a pulse. It would eat away at my enjoyment of the 9070XT had I committed this cardinal sin due to FOMO.
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I'm in a similar position and mindset.
Although my resolve might be weaker it is being helped by the lack of stock! OcUK quite misleading how it looks liked a card is in stock until you click on it.
 
kieran_read said:
I went for the reaper in the end.

Didn't go for any of the high end cards I can't justify the difference, this is a massive leap in performance for me so an extra 60 quid I can tolerate.

I will return it and swap it for. Gigabyte OC though if I can get one next week.

OC and 3x8pins at the same price is a decent difference.
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I think for you coming from a 1080ti it will be a monumental jump- I probably would have paid that £60 premium for peace of mind and to enjoy gaming again for a few weeks/months more.

For me it isn’t a huge jump and I guess if I turn the fps counter off it wouldn’t be that noticeable.
 
GhostDog1981 said:
I think for you coming from a 1080ti it will be a monumental jump- I probably would have paid that £60 premium for peace of mind and to enjoy gaming again for a few weeks/months more.

For me it isn’t a huge jump and I guess if I turn the fps counter off it wouldn’t be that noticeable.
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Exactly coming from a 3080 or newer the difference isn't that great especially if the games you play run well.

I also don't want onto see how it pans out with the world the way it is. I feel like if it backfires and prices increase on everything it will annoy me missing out and waiting for no reason, if prices drop to MSRP we'll I've had a 3 month headstart and it's not the end of the world.
 
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kieran_read said:
Exactly coming from a 3080 or newer the difference isn't that great especially if the games you play run well.

I also don't want onto see how it pans out with the world the way it is. I feel like if it backfires and prices increase on everything it will annoy me missing out and waiting for no reason, if prices drop to MSRP we'll I've had a 3 month headstart and it's not the end of the world.
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Plus it'll take a couple of months for better drivers anyway.

I'll just keep on using the 480 until 9070xt drop down in price.

Increasing prices on the day or day after is a joke.
 
Congratz on all those that got their cards. I will monitor prices over the coming months and maybe get one in time, but for now I'm happy enough to have saved my cash and will continue jiggling settings to try and persuade my 6600XT that it is really a high-end card.
 
hornetstinger said:
Plus it'll take a couple of months for better drivers anyway.

I'll just keep on using the 480 until 9070xt drop down in price.

Increasing prices on the day or day after is a joke.
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I'm not worried about drivers in the J2C video he said its one of the best launch drivers he's ever had, even vs team green
 
My only slight concern with the 9070 cards is that more and more games might force RT on in the future (like Indiana Jones).

That is the scenario where a 5070ti may be a safer bet if they come down to rrp.

Im not that bothered about RT myself, but if games start to simply force it on then i guess i will have to be bothered about it :p
 
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Jono8 said:
My only slight concern with the 9070 cards is that more and more games might force RT on in the future (like Indiana Jones).

That is the scenario where a 5070ti may be a safer bet if they come down to rrp.

Im not that bothered about RT myself, but if games start to simply force it on then i guess i will have to be bothered about it :p
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If the 5070ti 16GB was £570 yeah I'd get that.
 
Trickle said:
Back at ya. I (re)checked my figure was correct before posting :p
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Check the link I put in my response. 9070 is about 10% better at 4K than a 5070 in RT. At 1440p it is a draw.

If you are using ultra RT settings on some extreme cases, then you may find that 16%+ claim to be “true”. But 22 vs 25 fps with upscaling is hardly a “win”. :)
 
Jono8 said:
My only slight concern with the 9070 cards is that more and more games might force RT on in the future (like Indiana Jones).

That is the scenario where a 5070ti may be a safer bet if they come down to rrp.

Im not that bothered about RT myself, but if games start to simply force it on then i guess i will have to be bothered about it :p
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If more games become RT only then the need for upscaling and frame gen becomes more important and so both red and green win. The developers win because they get to play buddies with the GPU makers. It just points us down the AI path again.
Like you I am not bothered by RT but I may stay not bothered and just not buy the game :D

For the 9070 series, there is no point in me getting anything now but in the future a 9070 would work well with my system, from a power usage and balancing point of view. I don't think the 5800x would bottle neck a 9070 at 1440p.
 
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