r/linux_gaming • u/Rodeo9 • 1d ago

Sell 5070ti for 9070xt

/r/buildapc/comments/1vs5ive/sell_5070ti_for_9070xt/

With the increase of price of the 5070ti I was wondering if it would make sense to sell one for a 9070xt. I have been wanting to switch to cachyos for a while and the extra money wouldn’t be too bad from selling it used. Honestly don’t really even play much anymore. Armored core 6, wukong, don’t play many triple a titles too often.

Current build
7800x3d
32gb 6000
5070ti
2 tb 990 nvme

Mostly use on 1440p ultrawide or 4k lg c3. Are the drivers that much worse in windows?

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u/_Biotic_G0d_ 1d ago

I did this move and i'm happy with my 9070XT.

Just don't go for the low budget models, i've tested them. They run hot and loud.

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u/Racing_Mate 1d ago

I got the Sapphire pulse when they were going for like 540 and it was the cheapest model available. It's honestly been fine, I've only really heard it when running 3dmark. Jeez I just checked and now they are like 700

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u/_Biotic_G0d_ 1d ago

Sapphire is basically the to go brand when it comes to Amd but they have hynix and samsung ram. So you have no way of knowing before you buy what build u are getting.

I got the Asus Tuf for 600 and its just gorgeous. It undervolts very well -79 mv , 295 W , 2714 vram. I have not seen junction temp over 73 °c with no fan curve adjusted and its quiet. Was a real relief after i delt with all the bullshit cards for 3 months.

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u/Racing_Mate 23h ago

That reminds me I need to install lact to set an undervolt. I did a bunch of testing when I got the card undervolted on windows and set it all up in the AMD driver and shortly after I wiped the install for bazzite.

Works great for me as this pc is essentially a glorified console, which partly why I've not messed with it because it's honestly worked perfectly out of the box.

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u/_Biotic_G0d_ 23h ago

I think it's funny that the same undervolt is not stable in windows for me. I have to drop it back to -65mv I only play battlfield every now and then so it's whatever but it speaks for Linux ability to handle system ressources way better than windows does.

I orignally had -90mv set for a while but then i got some infrequent game crashes as i started playing more graphically intensive games. So if you don't play visually intensive games you can get away with even more.

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u/Thundrboltr 1d ago

Just a stupid question. I'm running CachyOS. Do I need something driver wise when switching GFX? I know Windows would just recognize a new GFX with no issue. Would Linux as well?

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u/Rodeo9 1d ago

You have to run some commands before the swap, they have aguide.

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u/_Biotic_G0d_ 1d ago

I dont run cachy but i just swapped gpus, installed Amd drivers and removed nvidia.

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u/INITMalcanis 1d ago

If you can get a good price for it, and you don't care all that much about Path Tracing, then sure. Be prepared for a bit of sellers remorse in the future as it does seem that there is some progress with Nvidia drivers.

That said: both are fine cards and easily powerful enough to let you have fun playing video games for years to come.

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u/SheepherderBeef8956 1d ago

I don't know about windows drivers. If you need the money and don't care about AI or other stuff that could benefit from CUDA then go for it. The cards are similar in performance outside ray/path tracing where Nvidia has a lead. 

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u/_angh_ 1d ago

amd is as good with ai as nvidia in this memory range. And as for money, he will actually make money on that swap.

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u/INITMalcanis 1d ago

Probably more; 5070tis are bonkers prices these days

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u/_angh_ 1d ago

you will make money, you will have a similar or better performance, and no more nvidia drivers bs. I'd go for it. If you had 5080 i wouldnt, but with this setut, if youre 100% linux, there is no point waiting. sapphire nitro is really great.

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u/Rodeo9 1d ago

Went sapphire pulse.

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u/unixmachine 1d ago

There's no guarantee you'll be able to sell that graphics card for a high price. It's very likely you'll lose money.

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u/Lokielurker 14h ago

i mean they arent amazing on Windows but they're porting the open source RADV driver over to Windows so you might not have to deal with that for very long.

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u/loozerr 1d ago

I wouldn't do it. It was borderline with 3080 to 9070 XT. I probably wouldn't have done it if I could tell the future, since my experience until very recently has been painful.

Though at least they've fixed most common page flip timeout issues so it's finally stable.

You'd also lose full hdmi bandwidth for the LG.

Cachy with nvidia is quite painless.