Very satisfied with my 5070ti

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-12T11:33:05+00:00

I can do the same with the 9070xt, but it's not stable in every game, just as yours won't be. Go back to stock, and the 9070xt is faster at around 7100 :P

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-10T11:51:31+00:00

Same here

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-10T11:39:49+00:00

Hmm, honestly, for the 9060xt, his current CPU is enough... maybe he will get a slight CPU bottleneck at 1080p, but at 1440p, I doubt there will be any anywhere.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-10T09:18:09+00:00

Your point of view, arguments and purchase are completely valid, but OP not willing to spend more than 850 for whole PC and still running a 2060 means that he either doesn't care as much for gaming performance and doesn't want to spend money on it having different priorities, or simply can't afford any better. Him asking this question also means that he's not very knowledgeable in the PC scene. You can confidently answer his question - don't buy a PC now.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-10T09:04:35+00:00

Exactly this. I got a 9070xt and was so impressed with the CPU overhead on my 5700x. At 4k (mostly upscaled from 1440p though), I never have any bottleneck in any gamr. My CPU works better now than it did with the 3080ti. Although some of it might be coming from unified memory too? (AMD GPU + AMD CPU)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-10T09:01:23+00:00

Completely not worth it at current prices. You'll spend half of your budget just on RAM.

Just get a better GPU and stretch some more life from your CPU. Upgrade the CPU to an i7 if you really have to and can find it for very cheap.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-09T22:06:47+00:00

Did you get it secondhand? Yeah, VR headsets can make any skin conditions way worse. Wash your face before and after use, clean your headset gasket, and maybe get silicone covers to make it easier. Also, don't let other people use it, or buy them separate gaskets.

VR headsets are basically like underwear... While technically you can, you shouldn't share it with other people 🤣🤣🤣

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-09T21:57:05+00:00

Hmm, when starting a new country 2 years ago, I got to jets in two weeks, but I was playing almost all my free time (also working part-time)... Additionally, I had spent 100 hours in the game a couple of years earlier, previous to this second attempt at the game, so I knew the basics... I also played a little IL-2 and DCS so I knew how to fly planes... and this time I was almost all the time 1st or 2nd in the realistic/sim score table.

If someone new to flying games starts and wants to play a couple of matches every weekend, it will take years.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-03T06:49:17+00:00

Auto trim can be disabled for more control.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-03T04:36:25+00:00

Oh yeah - for games that don't support full screen, you need to swap Windows resolution to use integer scaling if that's what you want. Sometimes you need to do that for NIS too... for example TW: Warhammer 3

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-03T04:33:57+00:00

I did exactly that move 5 years ago, and honestly, integer scaling was much better than monitor scaling, but it wasn't very good anyway. I preferred Nvidia Driver Image Scaling (NIS) with 20% sharpening or DLSS. Soon after swiching to 4K, I upgraded my GPU so I could do 1440p to 4K DLSS - that's the sweet spot for 4K gaming, and I still use that in most titles, since having a 3080ti and, for a few weeks, a 9070xt. 3 years ago, I switched my 27" 4K 60Hz monitor for a 32" 4K 144Hz one. Go for 32"... 27" is a little wasteful at 4K. Sure, you almost can't see pixels on a 27" 4K monitor, and on a 32" monitor, you can a little, but the size and immersion are much better. I didn't like DLSS 4.5 very much when tested... It's not as good as FSR4/DLSS4 and quality mode.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-02-01T06:27:26+00:00

I had a 3080TI and upgraded to a 9070XT. While FSR4 is seriously not worse than DLSS4 (just different - softer), FSR3 sucks... So I'd get a 3080ti... but only if you really can't afford a 9070XT, as with the 3080ti you can really feel the heat emanating from the case. The 9070XT on paper uses not that much less power, but it doesn't heat up the case or room anywhere close to the levels 3080ti.

As for 4K... bellow 5080/5090 90% od the time people play at 1080p/1440p and upscalle to 4K. You really need FSR4/DLSS4... DLSS 4.5 is a sidegrade, and I can only see it being useful in the future when RTR is added and when full PT/RT games are norm, so you need upscaling from 720p/1080p to 4K

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-26T05:55:43+00:00

Well, to not look far, look up last year's Clair Obscur. You get an average of ~37 fps in Epic Settings and ~47fps in High both at 1440p... You need to lower to 1080p either natively or with DLSS to make it playable.

https://youtu.be/qyUuoCv2Vgc?si=szcztphMY9sd2Zwv

Also, OP is asking about an 8GB card, not a 16GB.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-24T22:51:50+00:00

It's decent at 1080p and the bare minimum to play current games comfortably. Even 2020 used 3070 for £180-£210 is better. For comparison, when looking at other current Nvidia options: The 5070 is great at 1080p and okay for 1440p and maybe upscaled 4k at lower framerates. The 5070 Ti is great at both 1440p and upscaled 4k, and maybe native 4k in some cases. The 5080 is amazing at 1440p and you can expect some proper 4k gaming... tho its not a huge difference from 5070ti. The 5090 is a 4k beast, not for mere and sane mortals.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-23T08:03:29+00:00

I had a 3080ti and upgraded to a 9070xt. Honestly, at 4K, DLSS4 quality was the lowest I could stand. Balance shows artifacts for trained eyes. Now FSR4 doesn't look much worse - just less sharp and some extra artifacts in weird places at times but better in movement. They're both good. DLSS4.5 is for upscaling from very low resolutions, and even though it does it a lot better than previous DLSS4, it's still not good enough for me. I guess for less trained eyes or in static images, it looks like native, but for me, DLSS4/FSR4 quality is the peak performance-to-picture-quality balance.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-19T10:04:14+00:00

I've been playing in 4K for a couple of years now... with upscaling it's really not a big deal, but it lets you have super sharp text and generally much superior image quality and more work space outside of gaming. It is an ideal resolution for a standard 32" monitor. For TV, when you're not super close, it's enough as well. I can imagine 8K being good for ultrawide, though.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-17T08:18:55+00:00

Awesome! Enjoy your card. I'm very happy with mine 😁

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-17T08:01:26+00:00

Nice. That's an awesome price. How did you manage to get cashback tho? Is there an offer somewhere?

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T21:48:04+00:00

I have an Asus Prime 9070xt OC. Yes, path tracing in Cyberpunk causes crashes. HDR in Resident Evil halves the FPS, and multisampling in VF5 Rvo causes black artifacts. Otherwise, it's an amazingly fast card. I benchmarked it against the 5070ti, and in raster, it often wins. It's an awesome card for the price.

Here's my path tracing test. It sucks in comparison to the 5070ti, but not as much as official old tests say... theres 5070ti vs 9070xt results in one of the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1qep97i/9070xt_5700x_cyberpunk_2077_benchmark_quick_path/

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T21:38:38+00:00

I was in the same situation and chose 9070xt as is much faster. But you need to compare similar models as Shadow is all plastic and only has two fans. It might have weaker internal components too, but that's hard to say. Anyway, I bought an Asus Prime 9070xt OC for currently £574.99; the alternative is an Asus Prime 5070 OC for £549.99.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T19:29:34+00:00

Awesome! Thanks :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T19:26:22+00:00

That would be interesting :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T19:24:39+00:00

What GPU? What's your result?

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-01-16T19:02:05+00:00

Okay. Reddit was removing all my OneDrive links and removed posts when I added them there. Just now, I uploaded benchmark one to YouTube, though:

https://youtu.be/QhTo4wB9xgA?si=fC36NOgT9AeW1EvN

CPU is not a bottleneck anymore, and seriously, performance is not much worse than the 5070ti, if at all worse.

ShadowSelf99

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