I'm trying to decide between two GPUs: the Sapphire Nitro 9070 XT and the MSI VENTUS 3X OC 5070 Ti. The prices are quite close, with the 5070 Ti being just 20 EUR more than the Sapphire. I mostly game and am looking at titles like Oblivion Remastered, Cyberpunk, GTA VI, and The Witcher 4, but I don't play strategy or competitive games. I also haven't tried DLSS or MFG yet, but I've heard good things about them. From what I've gathered, the Sapphire seems to have great engineering, whereas the MSI runs hot and loud. Considering all these factors, and the fact that the 9070 XT generally performs better in pure raster tasks and has some driver issues with Nvidia, which one would you pick and why?
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If performance for the price is your main metric, then the Ventus 5070 Ti is definitely the way to go. But have you looked at the cheapest RX 9070 XT?
At this stage, you could literally just flip a coin and still end up with a great choice. It's that close!
Honestly, I'd pick the better performance GPU over a cooler, especially for just a slight price difference. You can actually undervolt the GPUs to make up for the cooler issues—it usually works out fine. The 5070 Ti is approximately 5% faster than the 9070 XT in most cases.
Thanks for that info! I was even thinking about swapping out the cooler later!
The 5070 Ti generally offers better performance when it comes to rasterization, plus you get DLSS and improved ray tracing features. That's a win if you're into those things.
I'd go for the 5070 Ti, especially with the close pricing. It supports DLSS in more games, which is a huge benefit, plus it offers better ray tracing capabilities with MFG. Nvidia's driver issues will get sorted in time; just look at how AMD had its issues a while back and sorted them out too. Just my two cents!
But AMD is having driver issues right now too! My experience with the 9070 XT hasn’t been great because of some messy launch drivers.
Yeah, but it's just under 100 EUR cheaper than the 5070 Ti. I'd rather spend a bit more for a solid design.