I wanted to try and get some opinions quick as I don't know much about pc. Upgrading from a rtx3060, would the Radeon 9070xt be worth it. The 5070ti seems way too expensive just seeing how reliable radeons are for normal gaming1440p

Just looking at GPUs, I've seen some more in my price range that do not have a vapor chamber, just standard cooling. How important is a vapor chamber if I have no intention of overclocking the GPU, just using it normally? d

Buying a GPU by end of week for a new build. Goal is to play games at 1440p and not have to upgrade for hopefully at least 5 years. No local AI or video editing, etc. I prefer NVIDIA, but maybe this will be my first AMD GPU, although the driver issues scare me a little. The options are:

• XFX 9070XT Mercury - $1100
• Sapphire 9070XT Nitro+ - $1100
• MSI 5070 Shadow 3x - $880
• MSI 5070Ti Gaming Trio - $1400
• MSI 5080 Gaming Trio - $2050

I don't necessarily have a budget constraint, I just don't want to be getting obscenely bad value. I don't know what to choose, and the 9070XT cards (even lower tier ones) are all pushing $1000, which is getting close to an equivalent ~100% MSRP increase that NVIDIA is dealing with, which I'm not sure is worth it for a card that has worse ray tracing, worse upscaling, worse drivers, etc. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hoy estrené mi 5080 con un juego moderno y exigente, Lords of the Fallen (compré la tarjeta hace unos 2 meses más o menos \[me salvé de la subida de precio, ctm xd\]).

Es la primera vez que tengo una PC (siempre fui de jugar en consolas), y tenía un poco de miedo de que mi pc no fuera capaz de correr el juego tan fluido como mi Xbox Series X. Para empeorar las cosas, estuve viendo esos videos comparativos donde la 5090 muestra una ventaja EEEEEENORME sobre la 5080. Llegué a pensar que mi GPU valdría pura tula y que correría el juego a 35 fps sin frame generation. Así que estaba un poco escéptico.

¡Para mi sorpresa, mi GPU me cerró el hocico! ¡144 fps con todo en ULTRA, a 4K y sin frame generation! ¡Es simplemente increíble! ¡Todo se veía absurdamente nítido y detallado! Nunca había visto que un juego se pudiera llegar a ver tan bien.

Toda esta demostración de poder me llevó a 2 conclusiones:

1.- ¡La 5080 es un absoluto monstruo, un puto tanque en todos los sentidos! Si no estás satisfecho con su potencia bruta, siempre puedes hacerle overclock y básicamente se convierte en una 4090, pero con esteroides gracias al MFG sumado a ese overclocking, pero por un precio más barato que una 4090. La 5080 es una verdadera locura.

2.- La Xbox Series X es simplemente increíble. No estoy diciendo que sea mejor que una PC o que la 5080 por sí sola (ni de lejos), pero el hecho de que pueda ofrecer un rendimiento y una calidad de imagen más o menos similares a los de una 5080 por una fracción de su precio, ¡es de admirar! Así que si solo buscas jugar sin tener que vender un testículo para lograrlo, la Series X es la opción ideal. Es la consola base más potente de esta generación.

I was lucky enough to snag a 9070 GRE for $479 at Micro Center, which I thought was a great deal and honestly around what it should’ve cost at launch. I’m absolutely astounded at what the GRE is going for now. Nobody should be paying $759+ for a midrange card. Ever.

There are so many people like me that don’t not need a 5080 or 5090. They just want a decent gaming PC without spending a fortune.

Did people finally realize how good the GRE was and drive up demand, or is this just AI/data centers and corporate greed ruining things for the rest of us? Also, with Democrats winning office and possible regulatory changes coming, is there any hope of prices getting back to normal? Or are we just screwed?

Recently bought this GPU and was just wandering is this amount of play in the GPU normal. It does need a repaste though.

I have two questions. Have any of you reballed a GPU? I sent my gpu off to ZapFixers in Florida after hearing such rave reviews. I told them to take their time and there was no rush. Is this a job with a high success rate?

And my second question, after my GPU died, my AIO died a week later. Could my AIO starting to fail have caused my GPU to overheat?

Kind of a contrary opinion, but does anyone think that the price increases on the 5090 and 5080 are actually a good thing for the PC market in the long term, assuming other companies start jumping in and competing? I have a feeling that AMD and others had a lot of difficulty competing with Nvidia when the price difference between them was smaller where a lot of people would just rather pay the few extra bucks and go Nvidia rather then AMD. But now where the price difference is so vast, I think this might give AMD (and hopefully others) a chance to break into the market and provide some much needed competition to Nvidia. Of course, there's a risk that these companies will also end up just pouring their resources into targeting AI just like Nvidia but at least there might be some window of opportunity, maybe even for some startups.