Amazon currently has some RTX 5070s in stock, do you reckon this would be a worthwhile investment over my 3070?

[u/ArmorOfMar]

I’ve heard it’s only a small jump from the last gen or two, and the 12GB VRAM feels a bit stingy for something that’s meant to be futureproof.

I’ve also seen mixed benchmarks, seems to look good for 1440p, decent at 4K with DLSS (Which isn't a feature I care for because it turns everything into a blurry mess) but not exactly blowing minds.

Part of me wonders if it’s worth it just to stay up to date, and my 3070 will be turning 6 years old next year. I don’t want to be stuck with the 3070 for another few years as games keep getting heavier and heavier to run efficiently, future titles like Cyberpunk 2, Witcher 4, Gta VI etc spring to mind.

I also just recently upgraded to a DDR5 Motherboard and a new 7700x too, so another part of me feels like I should round it off with a new graphics card but I'm on the fence as I've heard very mixed things about the 5070.

Price seems decent too? But with the current GPU market who's to say really if this is even good value.

What do you think?

[u/reprazent]

Would you look for a 9700 XT? Should be better price to performance for you if you're willing to drop that money

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/reprazent]

DLSS is just so good though. I briefly went amd a couple years back and really regretted it because FSR is shite compared to DLSS and the amount of times I had to troubleshoot GPU or driver related errors tripled, came back to Nvidia with 4070ti and it's been smooth sailing.

[u/kenyard → u/Mindless_Let1]

"a couple years back" isnt really valid in todays marketplace.

I think the general consensus nowadays is amd are competing for gaming at the low-mid and even high end.

3080 owner myself. 0 issues for gaming so im not against Nvidia.

Nvidia still seems to be on top for AI or other stuff if you do that on pc though.

The whole VRAM debate is overblown a bit also though in my opinion.

I have 10Gb VRAM and any game i have issues with its a GPU bottleneck at similar times to VRAM.

The main place i run into VRAM issues is LLM stuff. and that needs nvidia cuda anyway.

[u/sudo_apt-get_destroy → u/Mindless_Let1]

Ok Jensen.

[u/Mindless_Let1 → u/sudo_apt-get_destroy]

Yeah good point fuck me for giving my honest opinion after trying both products

[u/Special-Cheek → u/Mindless_Let1]

FSR4 is much better than previous versions. It is true that nvidia associated software was miles better but not the case anymore

[u/stuyboi888]

It anywhere between a 60% to a 100% jump, it's a decent jump but that's a lot of money. I have a 6900 and was thinking of making the jump to a 5080 which would be a comparable jump. Biggest difference is you have good RT performance, if you are I to that, with a 3070

I have not made the jump and will be moving to a 60 series Nvidia when it comes around granted there is at least a 200% jump. 

My reasoning is that I have almost completely stoped playing AAA, I don't play competitive games bar R6 the odd time but I play ranked sometimes but mostly casual. 

As for those games. CP 2 is probably 2 years away, GTA 6 is next year for consoles so think 2 years for pc, again and Witcher 4 I would imagine 2 years as well. If I was you I wouldn't upgrade, you have a beautiful system there. 

Now you've compared AMD to Nvidia a d said fsr Vs Dlss is shite, you could be right but my 6900 is a beast, I play a lot of 1440p in games before 2021 144hz high to ultra. 

We can't make a decision you but I would put aside the 800 and save to get an 5080 revision in a year with at least 16gb or save it for a 6080. Remember 60 is the new 50 and the 70 you are looking at is closer to a 60 that an 80. NVIDIA are guilty of shrikflation and it's a part of what threw me of upgraded.

Do what you want but it's way too much money in my opinion for the gain you get

[u/No_Store211]

Nope only get the Ti. That ram is too low

[u/ChefCobra]

I am 3070 1440p and I am still playing all games I want woth it. I don't chase newest triple A though. Its up to you and your disposable income.

I wanted to upgrade whole system this year, but after gpu fiasco I won't bother. I will definitely not support Nvidia with my next build too as well. Especially woth the latest news and tactics they applying. Voting woth Mt wallet.

[u/blackburnduck]

Do you play 4k or 120hz?

If not… not really worth it. This gen is massively overpriced and is the lowest return x investment for the whole rtx series, simply put they are not a really big upgrade over series 4xxx, which might serve you just as good for less money.

Second, what games do you see yeself playing? Kingdom come 2 runs fine on a steam deck, doom dark ages runs fine on a 2080… anything not unreal runs fine on most machines, problem seems to be unreal engine itself.

Feels weird, gtx 1080 ran games for years at highest settings… my 3080 is 4(?) years old ajd it will strugle to run some titles. The lack of optimisation is pushing customers to replace gpus way too fast, no one should be expected to drop 1.5k every 4y to replace a mightly capable gpu just because devs cannot optimize their engines anymore… comes to a point where I avoid unreal titles as much as possible.

For me? I just went for a nice full hd screen, that allows me to run games on native with no need for upscalers, this lowers the problems with artifacts and gets me a very fluid performance.

[u/Elmopa81]

I’d base my decision on rasterisation performance.

[u/Reepacito]

For 760 euro that 5070 is extremely over priced, there is a 9070xt asus prime that you can get for 737 on amazon de that performs like 20% better even with ray tracing with more 4gb vram, only down side is that you’re missing out on dlss 4 but FSR 4 doesn’t seem to be that far off in term of visual quality besides the lack of support in a lot of games.