Advice on Choosing a Graphics Card for Gaming and AI Tasks

The 9070XT is comparable to the 5070 Ti in terms of gaming performance, and I've heard AI performance has improved since its launch. It also has dual encoding and decoding capabilities. Even if AI might lag a bit compared to Nvidia, it’s still a fantastic option for gaming.

The 9070XT definitely outperforms the others for gaming (about 57% faster at high resolutions), and AMD has made some improvements for AI support on Windows. They’ve allowed installations of some AI tools that are pretty useful. Just make sure whatever you're planning to use supports AMD; some specific AI tools still favor Nvidia. Their encoders are decent, although not quite at Nvidia's level yet, but the AV1 encoding is promising.

You could go for the 5060 Ti, but if you want to dive into LLMs, I'd suggest aiming for the 5070 Ti with 16 GB for better performance due to Nvidia's CUDA cores. Although LLMs do work on AMD, memory is a crucial factor, so having at least 32 GB of system RAM is essential for smooth operation. Nvidia's streaming codec is also solid, so keep that in mind if you're doing a lot of streaming.

Don't believe the myths—LLMs actually work well on the 9070XT, and you can use either the ROCm or Vulkan backend. It’s just that setting up tools like Stable Diffusion can be trickier compared to Nvidia, but performance is strong. In terms of gaming, the 9070XT is a clear winner.