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graphics card upgrade? is it worth it

cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 350
in Hardware
xlr rtx 4070 ti is it worth  switching to the 9070 xt? was thinking of swapping over to AMD. My card only has 12 gb and the 9070 xt has 16gb. The 5070 ti i was reading was a terrible card, and the 5080 and 5090 are out of reach price wise. 

running 7800 x3d
64gb ram G.skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 
gigabyte x670e aorus xteme
sounblaster AE-5plus
 
thanks

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  • lotrlorelotrlore Managing EditorAdministrator, MMORPG.COM Staff, Member RarePosts: 700
    Honestly, I would hold onto your 4070 Ti, unless you can find a 9700XT at retail price. I wouldn't pay more than the $599 sticker price on the card. The 4070 Ti is still a good GPU, and it can outperform with ray tracing in some of our tests. But the 9700XT is a good value upgrade, though I don't see a pressing reason to do so right away.
  • VrikaVrika Member LegendaryPosts: 8,043
    edited March 8
    It's not worth it. 9070 xt would be maybe 10% faster than your current GPU.

    The GPUs did not get much faster this generation. At the moment your only good upgrade alternatives are either to go for much more expensive model and buy RTX 5090 or patiently wait for next GPU generation. I'd recommend waiting for next GPU generation.

    EDIT: Also RTX 5070 TI is not actually a terrible card. It's actually slightly better than RTX 4070 TI. People just went on a bashing spree against NVidia because they wanted NVidia to do a large upgrade from their last generation and NVidia only managed a small one. /EDIT
     
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,593
    That's a bit of an upgrade, but not much of one.  I wouldn't switch unless your old card is defective or you otherwise specifically want to be rid of it.

    The issue with the RTX 5070 Ti is not that it is bad.  It's that it is not as much of an upgrade over the 4070 Ti as people hoped for.

    People really shouldn't have expected a new generation to be that much of an upgrade over the previous when the process node for the new generation isn't much better than the old.  AMD's cards aren't a massive improvement over the previous generation either, and for the same reasons.

    You can only get huge improvements in video cards without huge improvements in process nodes if the previous generation was terrible.  I can only think of two instances of that:  The GeForce 900 series was far better than the 600/700 series, and the Radeon HD 4000 series was far better than the 3000 series.  The GeForce RTX 4000 series wasn't the sort of botched generation that would make it easy to get huge improvements.
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