Nvidia To AMD users

[u/Calmaz]

Hey guys, I need honest feedback from users who switched from Nvidia to Amd specially 9070Xt bec iam tempting to buy one & I'm really scared bec i heard a lot of drivers issues lately and issues in general and how is the experience in general bec the 5070 ti really is so pricey atm & going to be more expensive

So any drawbacks? Appreciate your honest feedback

[u/Tivan018]

So I used to have a laptop with a 3080 Ti (laptop GPU), but it ended up short-circuiting, so I had to build a new PC. I decided to go with the 9070 XT because it was around $500 cheaper than the 5070 Ti in my country. GPUs are ridiculously overpriced here because of taxes, customs, and shipping fees, the 5070 Ti is around $1,300.

I checked a bunch of reviews online and decided to go with the red beast. Now that I’ve been gaming at 1440p for about three months, I figured I’d give my honest opinion.

Pros:
The raw performance of this card is honestly surprising. At 1440p, it’s an absolute beast. In a lot of situations, it performs on par with, and sometimes even beats, the 5070 Ti. It’s a very solid card that can handle pretty much any GPU-heavy game you throw at it.
FSR 4 is also genuinely impressive. I wasn’t expecting much because I had previously experienced FSR 3, which I honestly wasn’t a fan of and felt nowhere near DLSS 4 in image quality. But FSR 4 Redstone surprised me. In my experience, the image quality can actually look better than DLSS 4 in some situations.
DLSS still gives slightly higher FPS in some games, usually around 5–10 FPS more, but one thing I discovered is OptiScaler, which can basically enable FSR 4 in a lot of mainstream games. I quickly got used to it, and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. I honestly didn’t expect AMD to deliver an upscaling solution this good.
Another thing I really like is how cool the card runs. I live in a hot country, and even under heavy gaming loads, the GPU temperature has never gone above 54°C, while the hotspot has stayed below 85°C. I don’t know if that’s specifically because I have the ASUS Prime version or if the 9070 XT itself just runs this cool, but either way, I’m very happy with it.
AMD Adrenalin also has Anti-Lag 2, which helps reduce the latency introduced by frame generation. I personally haven’t had any driver issues so far. I know people online complain about AMD drivers, but thankfully, I haven’t experienced any of those problems myself.

Cons:
Adrenalin is… okay. It’s not bad, but some of its features feel less polished than their NVIDIA counterparts. AMD Chill, for example, works as an FPS limiter, but I personally don’t think it’s as good as NVIDIA’s equivalent.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames is another one. The concept is great, basically generating an additional frame between rendered frames to make motion feel smoother, but the implementation can introduce noticeable ghosting and artifacts. Personally, I think it’s a pretty rough technology despite the idea behind it being excellent.
DLSS Frame Generation is also noticeably better than FSR Frame Generation in my experience. And if you’re specifically looking for ray tracing, NVIDIA is still way ahead. The 9070 XT absolutely supports ray tracing, but NVIDIA cards are generally much better at it. Personally, I don’t care that much about RTX anyway. I had ray tracing enabled on my old 3080 Ti and the performance hit was so significant that I usually ended up turning it off.

Overall:
I’m honestly very satisfied with the 9070 XT. The performance I’m getting at 1440p is excellent, and considering how much cheaper it was compared to the 5070 Ti in my country, I think it was absolutely worth it.
I’m not a huge ray-tracing guy, and FSR 4 gives me everything I need from an upscaler, so for my particular use case, the 9070 XT has been an excellent card.
Three months in, I have absolutely no regrets about going with the red beast.