Is a upgrade to the Rx 9070 XT from the 3080 Ti a good upgrade?

[Landvader07]

I need to upgrade from my 3080 Ti because I want to have a faster gpu for playing cyberpunk. also because my 3080 Ti is watercooler and I would like a air cooled card cuz I don't like mounting a radiator and because I get a lot of gpu's and I use my main pc for benchmarking games cuz my other pc's are quite old and will be a bottleneck. And so I have a good gpu when I upgrade my system. I just am hesitant to spend the money on a 9070 XT. Going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9 7950x3d.

 

CPU: Intel core i5 8600k

motherboard: Asus Z370 Rog Strix E gaming wifi

Ram: 32 gb ddr4 2666mhz running in dual channel

CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i Platinum

Psu: Ariesgame AGT1000 (yes I know Ariesgame is not a good brand but I wanted to use it for a upgrade and I do have a Corsair RM850x unit on standby if my ariesgame unit blows up)

[Jurrunio]

Better raster, no better ray tracing. Also AMD cards are worse for productivity. It's an upgrade, but not a big one. On the other hand it's a good time to sell a 3080Ti, so I can't give concrete recommendations.

[Salted Spinach]

But do not expect such results with a 8600K

 

[KidKid]

11 hours ago, Landvader07 said:

I need to upgrade from my 3080 Ti because I want to have a faster gpu for playing cyberpunk. also because my 3080 Ti is watercooler and I would like a air cooled card cuz I don't like mounting a radiator and because I get a lot of gpu's and I use my main pc for benchmarking games cuz my other pc's are quite old and will be a bottleneck. And so I have a good gpu when I upgrade my system. I just am hesitant to spend the money on a 9070 XT. Going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9 7950x3d.

 

CPU: Intel core i5 8600k

motherboard: Asus Z370 Rog Strix E gaming wifi

Ram: 32 gb ddr4 2666mhz running in dual channel

CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i Platinum

Psu: Ariesgame AGT1000 (yes I know Ariesgame is not a good brand but I wanted to use it for a upgrade and I do have a Corsair RM850x unit on standby if my ariesgame unit blows up)

Will you do ray tracing?

[hollyh88]

18 hours ago, Landvader07 said:

I need to upgrade from my 3080 Ti because I want to have a faster gpu for playing cyberpunk. also because my 3080 Ti is watercooler and I would like a air cooled card cuz I don't like mounting a radiator and because I get a lot of gpu's and I use my main pc for benchmarking games cuz my other pc's are quite old and will be a bottleneck. And so I have a good gpu when I upgrade my system. I just am hesitant to spend the money on a 9070 XT. Going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9 7950x3d.

 

CPU: Intel core i5 8600k

motherboard: Asus Z370 Rog Strix E gaming wifi

Ram: 32 gb ddr4 2666mhz running in dual channel

CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i Platinum

Psu: Ariesgame AGT1000 (yes I know Ariesgame is not a good brand but I wanted to use it for a upgrade and I do have a Corsair RM850x unit on standby if my ariesgame unit blows up)

well i went from a 6950xt to the 9070xt and that card performed around a 3080ti/3090 and i can say for sure. hell yea its worth it. 

and dont be bothered what people say about raytracing perf on amd with that card.. running optiscaler at 1440p cyberpunk maxed out everything besides pathtracing so even rt at ultra/psycho i got with fsr4 at quality around 80-120 fps all the time and never dropped below 60. and likely would have gotten a more steady 100~ if i had a 7800x3d or 9800x3d. but im gonna get a new mobo when am7 is around. 

[LOST TALE]

2 hours ago, hollyh88 said:

well i went from a 6950xt to the 9070xt and that card performed around a 3080ti/3090 and i can say for sure. hell yea its worth it. 

and dont be bothered what people say about raytracing perf on amd with that card.. running optiscaler at 1440p cyberpunk maxed out everything besides pathtracing so even rt at ultra/psycho i got with fsr4 at quality around 80-120 fps all the time and never dropped below 60. and likely would have gotten a more steady 100~ if i had a 7800x3d or 9800x3d. but im gonna get a new mobo when am7 is around. 

skipping am6 too? or do we already know there will be no am6?

[hollyh88]

16 minutes ago, LOST TALE said:

skipping am6 too? or do we already know there will be no am6?

i see no reason to get am6 when i have my 5800x3d.

[Landvader07]

10 hours ago, KidKid said:

Will you do ray tracing?

yes I will

[KidKid]

1 hour ago, Landvader07 said:

yes I will

AMD has closed the gap with Nvidia for Ray Tracing, so AMD or Nvidia would be fine. But going from an RTX 3080ti to a 9070XT would probably be a small performance uplift. RX 9070XT has been known to reach RTX 5080 performance when overclocked, and RTX 5070ti when not overclocked.

[Landvader07]

21 hours ago, KidKid said:

AMD has closed the gap with Nvidia for Ray Tracing, so AMD or Nvidia would be fine. But going from an RTX 3080ti to a 9070XT would probably be a small performance uplift. RX 9070XT has been known to reach RTX 5080 performance when overclocked, and RTX 5070ti when not overclocked.

I looked and I think it will be a big upgrade because I'm going form 3080 ti performance to 5080, 5070 Ti and those cards are very fast. Where as the 3080 ti is at 6950 xt performance and slightly faster then the 4070 super and the 7900 gre. I also would Like a card with more than 12gb of vram because of how intensive new games are.

[KidKid]

12 hours ago, Landvader07 said:

I looked and I think it will be a big upgrade because I'm going form 3080 ti performance to 5080, 5070 Ti and those cards are very fast. Where as the 3080 ti is at 6950 xt performance and slightly faster then the 4070 super and the 7900 gre. I also would Like a card with more than 12gb of vram because of how intensive new games are.

Good! AMD is cheaper, too! Will you overclock?

[Untitled]

No. Not Worth.

 

My 3080Ti can run CP2077 around 50-60 FPS on Max RT Overdrive setting on 2K with DLSS Perf. Also don't forget that "Lossless Scaling" *Exist*. With LS Frame Gen I get around 100-120 FPS on RT Overdrive which is good enough for me. In exchange of slightly higher latency.

 

P.S. If you don't already know, 3080Ti can use AMD FSR3 FG for free and it outperformed DLSS on Ultra setting. (As long as RT is Off)

P.S.2 CP2077 is a CPU heavy game too. I'm convinced that 3080Ti get bottlenecked by an i5.

[Landvader07]

8 hours ago, KidKid said:

Good! AMD is cheaper, too! Will you overclock?

Of corse I will. I herd you can get 5080 performance if you do so yes and I love overclocking so I will.

[jordanbuilds1]

53 minutes ago, Landvader07 said:

Of corse I will. I heard you can get 5080 performance if you do so yes and I love overclocking so I will.

actually I would hold on to that 3080ti till prices drop on the 9070xt. Now prices have seemed to increase to 800$. 3080ti now goes for the msrp of the 9070xt. Might be worth it to get the rx 7800xt since prices are low

[Landvader07]

8 minutes ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

actually I would hold on to that 3080ti till prices drop on the 9070xt. Now prices have seemed to increase to 800$. 3080ti now goes for the msrp of the 9070xt. Might be worth it to get the rx 7800xt since prices are low

I'm not selling the 3080 Ti because I got that from my Grandfather, and if I did my Dad would not allow because he payed for the card so I could get a newer Gpu. Also the 7800 XT is slower so it wouldn't make since to buy it. Also the 7800 XT cost the same as a 9070 XT so it would be better to get a 9070 XT then a 7800 XT.

[jordanbuilds1]

10 minutes ago, Landvader07 said:

I'm not selling the 3080 Ti because I got that from my Grandfather, and if I did my Dad would not allow because he payed for the card so I could get a newer Gpu. Also the 7800 XT is slower so it wouldn't make since to buy it. Also the 7800 XT cost the same as a 9070 XT so it would be better to get a 9070 XT then a 7800 XT.

I mean at current prices, idk if you have seen, but the 9070xt is over750$ buckaroos

[Landvader07]

Just now, jordanbuilds1 said:

I mean at current prices, idk if you have seen, but the 9070xt is over750$ buckaroos

I've found models for $600 at microcenter but the one I want is currently $780.

[Landvader07]

8 hours ago, Untitled said:

No. Not Worth.

 

My 3080Ti can run CP2077 around 50-60 FPS on Max RT Overdrive setting on 2K with DLSS Perf. Also don't forget that "Lossless Scaling" *Exist*. With LS Frame Gen I get around 100-120 FPS on RT Overdrive which is good enough for me. In exchange of slightly higher latency.

 

P.S. If you don't already know, 3080Ti can use AMD FSR3 FG for free and it outperformed DLSS on Ultra setting. (As long as RT is Off)

P.S.2 CP2077 is a CPU heavy game too. I'm convinced that 3080Ti get bottlenecked by an i5.

I would like to run cyberpunk faster then that without frame gen and sharpness. so i think it will be a good upgrade. And the 3080 Ti only has 12gb gddr6x while the 9070 XT has 16gb so I will have more vram which is essential for new games because they are very Vram hungry. Also it shouldn't get bottlenecked much because it is overclocked to 5ghz all core.

[jordanbuilds1]

4 minutes ago, Landvader07 said:

I would like to run cyberpunk faster then that without frame gen and sharpness. so i think it will be a good upgrade. And the 3080 Ti only has 12gb gddr6x while the 9070 XT has 16gb so I will have more vram which is essential for new games because they are very Vram hungry. Also it shouldn't get bottlenecked much because it is overclocked to 5ghz all core.

More vram doesn’t mean better performance necessarily. Hell the 3080 was comparable in 4k against the 9070xt

[Landvader07]

1 minute ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

More vram doesn’t mean better performance necessarily. Hell the 3080 was comparable in 4k against the 9070xt

I know that I but it would be better for game's that are Vram heavy

[KidKid]

9 hours ago, Untitled said:

No. Not Worth.

 

My 3080Ti can run CP2077 around 50-60 FPS on Max RT Overdrive setting on 2K with DLSS Perf. Also don't forget that "Lossless Scaling" *Exist*. With LS Frame Gen I get around 100-120 FPS on RT Overdrive which is good enough for me. In exchange of slightly higher latency.

 

P.S. If you don't already know, 3080Ti can use AMD FSR3 FG for free and it outperformed DLSS on Ultra setting. (As long as RT is Off)

P.S.2 CP2077 is a CPU heavy game too. I'm convinced that 3080Ti get bottlenecked by an i5.

Don't forget that AMD FSR 4 is out with the RX 9000 series, and it's much better than FSR 3.

[DNooby]

If you're really itching and have to have it, go for it

but I'd wait until next gen if you have a 3080ti, the performance uplift isn't that much and Nvidia has better RT and DLSS currently has more support ( 3080 can use dlss 4 )

Yes, in some cases the 9070 XT can reach 5080 performance... but those are golden samples, you could get a normal / bad bin as well... just the silicon lottery

This is coming from someone that owns a 9070 XT, it's a great card don't get me wrong but if I were in your shoes I'd hold for next gen jump

Here you can see a larger sample of games to see how the 9070 XT measures up to the 5070 TI, overall I think it's a 5% loss ( some heavy losses depending on the game ) those could improve depending on the driver updates though... but it should give you a better birds eye view than the previous comparison video
 

 

[Untitled]

1 hour ago, KidKid said:

Don't forget that AMD FSR 4 is out with the RX 9000 series, and it's much better than FSR 3.

Then why pay $600+ for a new card that has a bit more vram and a bit more raw performance just because it get exclusively software upgrade? Lossless Scaling can do almost the same and only cost $7.

[Landvader07]

On 3/20/2025 at 8:45 PM, DNooby said:

If you're really itching and have to have it, go for it

but I'd wait until next gen if you have a 3080ti, the performance uplift isn't that much and Nvidia has better RT and DLSS currently has more support ( 3080 can use dlss 4 )

Yes, in some cases the 9070 XT can reach 5080 performance... but those are golden samples, you could get a normal / bad bin as well... just the silicon lottery

This is coming from someone that owns a 9070 XT, it's a great card don't get me wrong but if I were in your shoes I'd hold for next gen jump

Here you can see a larger sample of games to see how the 9070 XT measures up to the 5070 TI, overall I think it's a 5% loss ( some heavy losses depending on the game ) those could improve depending on the driver updates though... but it should give you a better birds eye view than the previous comparison video
 

 

what 9070 XT do you have? Because it also depends on the manufacture and model. So if you have a cheap card it will not be as good because it used cheaper components to hit that price. I am getting the sapphire Nitro + 9070 xt

[Landvader07]

On 3/20/2025 at 7:46 PM, KidKid said:

Don't forget that AMD FSR 4 is out with the RX 9000 series, and it's much better than FSR 3.

I am not going to use FSR 4 unless i have to so that doesn't really matter to me.