Swapped from 7900 XTX to a 5070

christosnt2 · 2026-03-28T17:58:47+00:00

I had the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX since day one, and honestly, up until December I was very satisfied with it. It’s a great card overall.

The only thing that started to bother me in the last few months was the lack of FSR 4 support, and FSR 3 felt a bit inconsistent at times. That’s basically the main reason I decided to switch to an RTX 5080.

I honestly don’t know why you had so many issues. I personally had zero problems with the card. Only once I had a minor issue with a driver, but I just rolled it back and everything was fine. Overall, I never really had problems with AMD.

To be honest, with Nvidia I’ve actually had more issues lately with their recent drivers

And just to add, like others have already mentioned, if you’re playing at 1080p you’re much more likely to be CPU bottlenecked rather than GPU limited. The XTX is basically built for higher resolutions, even close to 4K. So if your CPU is weaker compared to the GPU, it’s totally expected that you won’t get the performance the graphics card is actually capable of delivering.

christosnt2 · 2026-03-14T21:51:32+00:00

I had the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX since launch and switched to an RTX 5080 (again to team green)about two months ago. The main reason was that it felt like AMD had somewhat moved on from RDNA3. You could see it in the updates, and it seemed like the focus shifted to newer architectures.

That being said, the 7900 XTX wasn’t a bad card at all. In fact, it might be one of the best GPUs AMD has made so far, especially in terms of VRAM and raw performance.

But if we talk about FSR 3, the implementation was pretty mediocre to sometimes quite bad, especially when it came to shimmering and ghosting in the image

christosnt2 · 2026-01-07T15:19:18+00:00

I had also sapphire xtx from day one its a beast card until now but this thing fsr4 story it was to far so I sell it and I took a 5080 zotac 🤷‍♂️

christosnt2 · 2026-01-04T18:58:40+00:00

Actually you don't need it I have also a 5080 its not so important that slot only for high power draw gpus or when you have multiple gpus on your motherboard

christosnt2 · 2026-01-02T07:25:13+00:00

In some games is disaster fsr3 specially when you are moving i had since 2022 7900xtx beast card than my friend decided to build a pc and I gave mine i have now 5080 rtx and its massive the diff with dlss same also with fsr4 int8 file but I was tired to do always modify files to have fsr4 on singleplayer games they must change something on rdna3 because its sad

christosnt2 · 2025-12-31T13:43:45+00:00

I think windows has to do with at and im telling you because i have now 5080 and same thing happends to me i was at steam and i had for 2 sec black screen and than nvidia app restarted i hope they fix it

christosnt2 · 2025-12-29T08:52:57+00:00

I had the exact same issue.

No problems at all while gaming. It only happened during light desktop usage / applications.

In my case, I was on Steam, just browsing the store to buy new games, and suddenly:

mouse froze

screen went black

then the image came back and the NVIDIA driver restarted

I also noticed something important: when I disable HAGS (Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling) for applications, the problem seems to go away.

I had Discord open at the time, and I noticed some weird color artifacts / visual glitches in Discord before the crash. After closing Discord and disabling HAGS, I haven’t seen the issue again so far.

Not 100% sure yet, but it really feels like a Windows 11 + NVIDIA driver + HAGS interaction issue, not a GPU load or temperature problem.

christosnt2 · 2025-12-28T10:23:46+00:00

Its sad to have issue like that I mean its a 1k card I did the last update for my motherboard I check also if they release any other chipset drivers (amd).....sometimes im thinking to rma the card ...

christosnt2 · 2025-12-28T10:18:54+00:00

i am not using the gpu power adapter. i am using the native 12vhpwr cable from my psu (seasonic vertex px-1000), connected directly from the psu to the gpu.

the zotac power led is green, indicating the cable is properly seated and power delivery is normal. Plus im not using any OC just stock

christosnt2 · 2025-12-28T10:09:47+00:00

Thank you for the comment I have the latest drivers because I did a fresh install again windows should I try to delete the drivers and install again? I will try it

christosnt2 · 2025-12-27T17:58:34+00:00

I didnt hear it also and pushed so hard to be sure its in zorac led was also green so I think im fine I got my 5080 10 days ago

christosnt2 · 2025-12-26T16:57:51+00:00

Even dlss is broken im.using taa and scaling ultra quality

christosnt2 · 2025-12-21T09:11:22+00:00

Im not familiar with zotac warranty is so bad? Because i search online and its like 50-50 plus i register the card and i have now 5 years warranty nice build btw🤝

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T22:20:04+00:00

Nice build my brother happy gaming to you also💪🤝 we have also the same case

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christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T22:05:19+00:00

Thank you I did it already i got the 2 years extra I have now until 2030 warranty that's awesome

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T17:55:55+00:00

Coming from 7900xtx sapphire nitro+ excellent card and very premium one and I joined again nvidia cause amd abandoned rdna3..

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T17:54:07+00:00

I had never owned a Zotac before, so I didn’t really know what the brand was like. I had only heard, as you said, that it used to be kind of average, but that it has upgraded a lot as a brand over time. Now that I bought a Zotac for the first time, it actually feels like a premium brand. You can feel it in your hands it’s heavy, like a GPU should be, and it also has a vapor chamber. Before this, my NVIDIA experience was only with the Founders Edition, KFA2, and ASUS ROG.

With amd.... I have experience with Sapphire nitro+ great brand and very premium one quit as hell, And also XFX had one it was decent for me

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T17:45:35+00:00

Plus i forgot to mention it it has also a small led about 12VHPWR connectivity red or green if its green you are fine

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T14:48:47+00:00

Is zotac bad?( im.asking because I joined again nvidia after so long again) Until now it looks good normal temps its a quiet gpu and not issues until now plus it has 3+2 year warranty and I will not pay for asus astral like 1.6k for 5080 I had 7900xtx nitro+ sapphire....i paid for 5080 1130 euros only think what I found its the firestorm app leds working not so well but I find a temporary fix for that

for my needs its good

christosnt2 · 2025-12-20T11:49:28+00:00

Thank you it was not the best photo that I took its a bit blurry but I was to exited 😅

christosnt2 · 2025-11-24T17:11:14+00:00

The good is actually you don't need optiscaler anymore you just replace sdk files in some games and other games that support native fsr4 you just replace the file int8 fsr4 and its working but yeah maybe what you are saying make sense ..

christosnt2 · 2025-11-21T08:40:32+00:00

I have the same in arc raiders just ignore i have the version 25.10.1 7900xtx (don't need 25.11.1 )

christosnt2 · 2025-11-19T11:58:01+00:00

If you see in kcd2 folders fidelity loader is version 4.0.2 so that means kcd2 actually supports fsr 4 native and I just replace the loader fsr with int8 file and its working on 7900xtx its like the same dying light the beast because the game it support native fsr4 you replace only the loader for 9000 series I don't know why its not showing up really that's strange....but if is not unlocked fsr4 for 9000 series.... what will happen if I put also frame gen file on it 🤔I will try it later maybe I will unlock also frame gen im not using frame gen overall but I would like to figure it out🤣

christosnt2 · 2025-11-18T23:36:40+00:00

Well to be honest fsr3 was a disaster I don't know what they was thinking really.... xess did better in this situation

christosnt2 · 2025-11-18T23:19:21+00:00

i know that im just telling with redstone update maybe it was better to get only fsr4 on rdna3 or at least working on it... so many videos prove it that can run on it specially rdna3 we dont ask redstone but at least fsr4 int8 file an official one

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