7800xt vs 5070

[DJSTRIN]

Looking at either a 7800xt or 5070 gpu to pair along side a 7800x3d. I play more multiplayer games at 1440p so Ray tracing/ upscaling etc doesn’t really matter. Although I’ve seen better benchmarking results from the 5070 and currently it’s only £25 more at £500. Any suggestions welcome my main concern is how future proof will 12gb VRAM be?

[Landvader07]

2 hours ago, DJSTRIN said:

Looking at either a 7800xt or 5070 gpu to pair along side a 7800x3d. I play more multiplayer games at 1440p so Ray tracing/ upscaling etc doesn’t really matter. Although I’ve seen better benchmarking results from the 5070 and currently it’s only £25 more at £500. Any suggestions welcome my main concern is how future proof will 12gb VRAM be?

I would say get the 5070 because it is faster. even though the 7800 xt has more vram. More vram does not always equal more performance. And You will have better driver support with a 5070 and all of Nvidia's features. and while it is only 12gb of Vram, it is faster and will give you more performace.

[CatTNT]

Performance wise, it's absolutely worth it. If you're going to play on low/medium settings, 12GB at 1440p should be fine for a while. If you're gonna crank your settings up, its fine for now, but probably won't last for long. Modern games are using 10GB+ of VRAM at 1080p high/ultra settings. Although it's the game's fault for being atrociously optimized, devs show no sign of getting any better at making games anytime soon. So expect worse optimization 


https://www.techpowerup.com/review/palit-geforce-rtx-5070-gamingpro-oc/34.html

[starsmine]

if the 9070 was actually priced correctly, that one. 
Otherwise the RTX 5070. VRAM is not currently an issue, but in 3-4 years yes it will be. But I suspect at that point you can make the decision to upgrade the GPU or get a zen 6 x3D chip, or both, idk. 

[RockstarArthur]

5070 hands down. Am a 4070 super user and I can confidently tell you that VRAM won't be an issue for several years even at 4k as long as you use DLSS transformer and dial down few settings here and there.

[JonS77]

Everytime I see a question like this, I'm reminded of how the entire tech media have failed their audience in favor of clicks, views, and fandom surfing . This should be such easily accessible information that people shouldn't have to post and ask about it but here we are. And it is understandable because I can see exactly why people would be confused trying to find an answer to this on their own.

 

As others have said, 5070 of course.

[Dedayog]

7 hours ago, Landvader07 said:

I would say get the 5070 because it is faster. even though the 7800 xt has more vram. More vram does not always equal more performance. And You will have better driver support with a 5070 and all of Nvidia's features. and while it is only 12gb of Vram, it is faster and will give you more performace.

Also,new dlss is supposed to lower vram needs by 20% per Nvidia.  12gb is more than fine 

 

I'd get the 5070 as well.

[djhancenl]

My my.  My little brother bought a 3090 when the prices where sky high. He needed it for his new job so his boss put some money down for him. They paid 2400 euro (3k $) in 2023. 

today i got a brand new 7800xt for 420 euro (490 dollar). Old skool lan party, next to each other, my 5800x, 7800xt custom build i've made for 1400$. Outperforming his 7000$ dream machine from 2 years ago (Intel crap + nvidia luxury brat card). 

Even when we tried some topaz video ai (directml) or forge stable diffusion (zluda) i was pretty close in performance.  Ow i love how AMD has made this great comeback. 

to be on topic. The 5070 seems like the only great deal nvidia has to offer. And for 150/200 dollar that seems like a good choice. A little faster, a little less vram (if you dont do llm/stable it's ok)  
 

 

But the 7800 is a GEM. really surprised me.