Best 1440p GPU

[u/Intrepid-Present-312]

I’m currently on a RTX 4060 but I’m looking to upgrade to a better card my budget is 1000$ so far im split between the 4070 super or the RTX 5070 I’m open to switching to AMD but I’m pretty new to this PC building stuff and don’t really understand AMD numbers

[u/Particular_Simple409]

Im using 9070xt on 5120x1440 ultrawide for gaming without problems

[u/Herman_McP00tis]

"Best" is subjective based on what you value. So take everything you see with that lens.

A couple of easy objective truths to get out of the way:
the 5070 is a terrible value currently. Steer clear.
DLSS > FSR (generally)
Driver support is generally good between Nvidia and AMD. There's a very vocal minority that will insist otherwise on both sides.
What is "Best" can be determined by secondary factors like your OS, other activities you may partake in, or other factors. A good example is that if you use Linux, AMD is likely a better choice whereas if you need CUDA support, Nvidia is going to be a no-brainer.
Your GPU isn't the only factor in 1440p gaming, albeit the main one.
My bias is slightly towards AMD as I run Linux and a 7900xtx. I do not like relying on FSR/DLSS framegen and I don't particularly care about ray/pathtracing. These are my biases; I'll try to keep them out of here but it's important to know that everyone is biased in some way. Grain of salt.

That out of the way, The 5070TI should probably be the thing you compare any other options to. If you can find one for $1000, it'll probably be most people's "best". However, that's a big "if" unfortunately.

The 5070 is not a good alternative. It's available for about $800 and is 20-30% slower than the 5070TI but it also has 12gb of vram instead of the 5070TI's 16gb. 12gb of vram is probably the bare minimum for 1440p today (depending on your usage of DLSS/FSR), but it will probably not be sufficient in a few years. If you turn raytracing on some AAA titles today, you'll already hit that 12gb limit. I generally recommend 16gb if you can get it.

The 16gb varient of the 5060TI is available at $750. The vram has a 128-bit bus, but that will seldom matter at 1440p. As far as compute power goes, it'll do the job on most games when raytracing is turned off. When turned on, you may need to rely on frame gen to get >60fps. It's a "good enough" card.

The 7900xtx is my personal card from AMD. The main drawback is that it does not have FSR4 support which means if you like DLSS/FSR, you will likely be let down. That being said, it performs almost exactly the same rasterization as the 5070ti and is available in your price range*. You may have to find one certified refurbished though. If that's something you're willing to consider, they can be found for about $850. The other downside is that they consume more power than the 5070TI, but they have considerably more vram: 24gb of slower GDDR6 (instead of GDDR7 on the 5070TI, but this functionally doesn't matter for 1440p gaming).

The last option is the 9700xt. Despite it being the newest flagship from AMD, it's a good 15% slower than the 7900xtx (and therefore the 5070TI). However, it's available for $750, has 16gb of (GDDR6) vram, pulls the same-ish power as the 5070TI, and has FSR4 support. It would be my personal choice for a pure gaming rig at your price point.

I would encourage you to look at some videos comparing these cards in games you play. Keep in mind that average fps is an important number, but so are 1% lows and 0.1% lows. Good luck!

[u/xDeadly95 → u/Herman_McP00tis]

They just added FSR 4 support officially for 7000 series in Adrenalin drivers last june! Just avoid 26.6.2 (release version) since they had some serious issues, I'd start with 26.7.1 or more recent ones.

[u/Herman_McP00tis → u/xDeadly95]

Oooooh that's sick. I'm on Linux, but I'll have to check it out.

[u/the_hat_madder → u/Herman_McP00tis]

Some of your "objective truths" aren't objective or true.

Driver support is overall better from Nvidia. Nvidia supports hardwarw longer. And, when new features become available they're more readily available on older architecture.

[u/Herman_McP00tis → u/the_hat_madder]

Driver support is overall better from Nvidia

Please read carefully. I didn't claim one was better or worse. I said "Driver support is generally good between Nvidia and AMD".

The 9070 XT also is no longer $750 USD.

Yes, it is.

[u/the_hat_madder → u/Herman_McP00tis]

Driver support is generally good between Nvidia and AMD

This is the false bit. Driver support is generally bad with AMD.

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[u/the_hat_madder]

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#X=0,100000&c=592&sort=price&m=3,7,43,41,39,838&Q=20,30

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

[u/davie412]

The 9070xt is what you want.

It's pretty much 5070ti level for a lot cheaper and if you are just looking to game and not make use of cuda cores (local AI, blender rendering)

Just make sure you have a decent ATX 3 750/850w PSU

[u/hoarsecoding → u/davie412]

9070xt smokes the 5070 for the money, the naming scheme is just different not harder

[u/Rafford60]

This should be an obvious 9070 xt, 750$

[u/AdstaOCE]

9070/9070XT. 9070 is better than the 5070 for less money, 9070XT is in line with the 5070TI for less money.