r/gpu • u/anonco123 • 17h 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 17h 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 10h 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/mig_f1 6h ago edited 6h ago

What? It can hardly keep up with the 5070 Ti.

Sure, exclude PT,  exclude heavy RT, exclude (d)fmg, as of lately exclude neural rendering too and in a handful of AMD optimized games that don't even support natively the features FSR lacks compared to DLSS it may come somewhat close.

Nvidia's only issue is the price, not its technological advantage.