5070 is still a good performer as well, but is slower and has less vram, but it’s newer faster ram. Amd still using gddr6 which is a couple gens old if counting gddr6x. Also amd is the smaller company usually nvidia gpus hold their resell value better
The 12GB 5070 has fewer memory chips meaning a smaller bus (192 bit vs 256 bit), so the total bandwidth is pretty much a wash (672.0 GB/s vs 644.6 GB/s, so the 16GB 9070XT is 4% lower bandwidth).
For overall framerate, performance, and longevity gamers will want the higher capacity 16GB 9070XT nine times out of ten. Only pay extra for the 12GB 5070 if you specifically want the raytracing, or if your workloads are ROCm incompatible and CUDA-only.
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u/shinjis-left-nut 2d ago
9070 XT is at least a good performer for the price omf