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Aurhinius

Aurhinius

Aurhinius

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Starting to think that nvidia 6 series and AMD RDNA5 or whatever is at least a year away and running a 3080. Worth getting a 9070XT or 5070Ti for 4K? Yes I know I should by a 5090 but that's not going to happen so the option is 9070XT or 5070Ti is the DLSS 4 worth the 20% premium?
 
Doubt youll see 6 series nVidia cards until 2027 at the earliest.

Ideally youll want the 16GB 9070XT variant for 4k with the AMD option. As for whether that or a 5 series card is worth it to you...oinly you can tell.

What isnt the 3080 doing for you now that would prompt the upgrade? ~30% raw raster uplift from the 3080 to the 9070XT...does that tickle your fancy?
 
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Yeah it's a difficult one but I don't think a 5080 for 45% is worth it at £950 when I can have 30% for £590. Irritatingly AMD isn't giving me the option of anything better and I wouldn't buy in to older 7900XTX at this point as I might as well get FSR 4
 
From what I have seen from the benchmarks the 20% premium is not worth it "to me". At the end of the day only you can determine if that extra money is well spent or not. I got the 9070XT Pure and I quite happy with it now that the coil whine is gone! I chose the Pure because it didnt have the dreaded 12 VHPWR connector and the Pure traded blows quite well with the Nitro+, Mercury, and Taichi.
 
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Starting to think that nvidia 6 series and AMD RDNA5 or whatever is at least a year away and running a 3080. Worth getting a 9070XT or 5070Ti for 4K? Yes I know I should by a 5090 but that's not going to happen so the option is 9070XT or 5070Ti is the DLSS 4 worth the 20% premium?
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Either of those will be a good choice.

I game at 4k with my 4080 and it's fine.

I made peace with not maxing out games and use the Geforce Experience these days for games that it supports.

If AMD don't have an equivalent to the Geforce Experience then that could be a purchase consideration.

Don't forget you get DLSS + better RT as well but AMD represent the better value.
 
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You also have to remember that although the start of 5 series Nvidia GPUs started with the 5090 in Feb 2025, there was basically no stock for months it was a paper launch. Personally I don't think we will see new GPUs for quite some time certainly not next gen ones.

The question is one of value, but the problem is there are no good value GPUs right now so people basically have three options as I see it:
1. Set yourself a budget and get the highest performance product you can
2. Go all in and upgrade to the best and then flip to a continuous upgrade cycle, the 5090 looks a lot cheaper when you have a used 4090 to sell for example - Does require the money to do this, not an option for everyone
3. You bide your time in the hope market conditions improves for the consumer (aka the AI bubble bursts or becomes saturated) - OP has already ruled this out and I can understand why

So if your budget covers the 5070Ti get that if it does not go for the 9070 XT.
 
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I've gone from a 3080 to 9070xt (£540 in BF sales) coming on Saturday. DLSS performance was doing OK still, but there were a few games where the VRam was an issue.
 
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I was going to buy the Pulse 9070XT on Monday it was £559.99 then Tuesday it increased to £569.99 then tonight it's increased again to £589.99 so I'm out.

And now in the last hour it's gone up to £599.99 on ocuk. Wtf is going on?
 
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I was going to buy the Pulse 9070XT on Monday it was £559.99 then Tuesday it increased to £569.99 then tonight it's increased again to £589.99 so I'm out.

And now in the last hour it's gone up to £599.99 on ocuk. Wtf is going on?
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If you don't really NEED a card let it go.

But if you do, pony up the 40 quid and buy it because chances are it'll not be cheap in 2026.
 
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If you don't really NEED a card let it go.

But if you do, pony up the 40 quid and buy it because chances are it'll not be cheap in 2026.
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I don't need it no but I do want it haha. But your advise is sound though. It was just for a 3rd pc for my bedroom to go in a nice little 5800x3D system I have. Would be nice but these price rises, every time I look pulse has gone up. I'm just afraid there's a DDR5 scenario coming to GPUs too. I see the XFX swift is still available at old pulse price but I hear it's a bit louder fan wise though. I have got a Nitro + 9070 XT for Christmas coming through I bought few months ago so it's good. That's for new build with 9800X3D. :)
 
We have the XFX at £559 and ASUS at £569, re-supply cost are massively up now, hence Sapphire jumping as we have restocked.
Prices will be increasing again in January to the point it will be hard to find any brand of 9070 XT under £600 in Q1 next year potentially.
 
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