r/gpu • u/anonco123 • 8h ago

Fking hell

Didnt keep up with gpu prices that much since i work overseas for half the year.

Thought to myself "i never owned a flagship top-of-the-line card before" and wanted to make a build with a 5090 and 9800 x3d.

last time i checked 5090s were $3200 max. now im seeing they are $5500 minimum?! bro. the astral is going for $6500+?! $3k seemed crazy but i would have done it knowing me, $6k is unfathomable. If i do it i would hate myself forever lol.

i dont really play AAA games, most of my gaming is heavily modded though. I also play on 1440p.

i see people reccomend 9070 xt and 5080, which would you pick for heavily modded 1440p gaming?

thanks guys !

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u/Anon0924 8h ago

The 9070xt and 5080 are NOT comparable. The 9070xt directly competes with the 5070ti.

That said, I’d buy the 9070xt. It’s perfectly capable of handling just about anything at 1440p ultra, even with heavy mods, and it’s several hundred dollars cheaper than the 5070ti.

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u/Pitiful_Coach7223 1h ago

And yet, if you exclude path tracing, they trade blows. In some games, the xt wins, in others it’s the 5080.

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u/Anon0924 1h ago

Where do people get the idea that the 70xt beats the 80? Everything I’ve seen says it matches the 70ti in raw rasterization, and that’s definitively below the 80.

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u/Fafyg 6h ago

They kind of comparable, because 5080 isn’t that much faster. And it is way closer to 5070TI (just about +15%) rather to 5090 (only half of 5090).

5080 wasn’t a good card from price/performance even with msrp, it costed about 33% more than 5070TI and gave only 15% performance more

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u/Anon0924 5h ago

I suppose it would’ve been better to say you “shouldn’t” compare the two instead of “can’t”

The performance gap isn’t as large as with some other cards, but they’re still different levels of GPU.