Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti vs AMD Radeon 9070 XT: Massive 52 Game Benchmark

[Hecate91]

You having to hack fsr 4 means that amd doesn't officially support it cause they don't care. Nvidia does support it on their 2018 entry level gpus. Sotp ignoring the elephant in the room.

Yet the goalposts were constantly being moved that AMD apparently doesn't care, and were somehow purposely blocking FSR on RDNA3 because you could just use optiscaler.
Testing so that a feature works on older GPU's where performance is less than the architecture it was first designed for takes time to validate so the feature works enough for a full launch.

So consoles apparently also use rdna3, cause rdna 3 isn't getting it either. Great excuse.

AMD drivers have been significantly worse, major stuttering in new games (forza horizon), blue screens, the cables catching fire (sapphire Asrock etc.) it's been a disaster of a release.

The best part of dlss 4.5 is the upscaler which works on entry level 2018 gpus. But it doesn't work on 2023 amd flagship. Let's keep ignoring the elephant in the room

Consoles use RDNA2 architecture with a few RDNA3 features, it isn't the same GPU architecture as a desktop GPU.

Game stuttering in forza horizon is a forza horizon issue, which is just one reason why I don't buy games on release, but people still won't learn and would rather be paying beta testers.

And you mean Nvidia's defective connector, that does melt at 300W loads because the connector lacks load balancing, and doesn't have durable enough pins to prevent GPU connector side loss of contact.

Lets stop ignoring the elephant in the room, DLSS4.5 is a software package, you keep picking and choosing what is important to support your bias, while bashing on AMD for the same thing.

 

[Strawman]

I'm saying that I can, not that I should. I tried using the example of emulating ARM on X86 as an example. In many cases, trying to run DLSS4.5 on a 20 or 30 series card leads to a decrease in performance, not an increase. Yeah, it runs and if that's what you want to call support because you overpaid for Jensen's Kool-aid, go ahead and keep drinking.

AMD has admitted to what I said above about Nvidia. they can make it run, but since RDNA 3 doesn't have the instructions in it to run FSR4 properly, it can lead to a decrease in performance.

Then release it on time and let the user decide. Unless an rtx 2060,a 299$ card from 2018 can run it better than the 7900xtx, a 1k$ card from 2023, something is off here

 

[Strawman]

Yet the goalposts were constantly being moved that AMD apparently doesn't care, and were somehow purposely blocking FSR on RDNA3 because you could just use optiscaler.
Testing so that a feature works on older GPU's where performance is less than the architecture it was first designed for takes time to validate so the feature works enough for a full launch.

Consoles use RDNA2 architecture with a few RDNA3 features, it isn't the same GPU architecture as a desktop GPU.

Game stuttering in forza horizon is a forza horizon issue, which is just one reason why I don't buy games on release, but people still won't learn and would rather be paying beta testers.

And you mean Nvidia's defective connector, that does melt at 300W loads because the connector lacks load balancing, and doesn't have durable enough pins to prevent GPU connector side loss of contact.

Lets stop ignoring the elephant in the room, DLSS4.5 is a software package, you keep picking and choosing what is important to support your bias, while bashing on AMD for the same thing.

AMDs defective connectors burning cards left and right, oh boy.

I'm basing amd cause the first time they managed to make a good upscaler they locked it to their new gpus. That's deplorable and if Nvidia had done that you'd be outraged, so cut the bs.

 

[yRaz]

Then release it on time and let the user decide. Unless an rtx 2060,a 299$ card from 2018 can run it better than the 7900xtx, a 1k$ card from 2023, something is off here

You're the only person I ever met that has argued that making a product perform worse means it is well supported

AMDs defective connectors burning cards left and right, oh boy.

I'm basing amd cause the first time they managed to make a good upscaler they locked it to their new gpus. That's deplorable and if Nvidia had done that you'd be outraged, so cut the bs.

That connector is an ATX standard and was co developed by Intel, Foxconn and Supermicro. AMD had nothing to do with the 8pin PCIe connector. And it worked fine for over a decade while Nvidia used it.....

 

[Strawman]

You're the only person I ever met that has argued that making a product perform worse means it is well supported

Doesn't make it slower, you are just making things up to avoid the elephant in the room. You are basically saying amd didn't port fsr4 for the good of the user. Okay, then why are they doing it now? Lol

That connector is an ATX standard and was co developed by Intel, Foxconn and Supermicro. AMD had nothing to do with the 8pin PCIe connector. And it worked fine for over a decade while Nvidia used it.....

Guy above me just called it an nvidia connector though. So he is wrong, thanks.

 

[yRaz]

Doesn't make it slower, you are just making things up to avoid the elephant in the room. You are basically saying amd didn't port fsr4 for the good of the user. Okay, then why are they doing it now? Lol

Guy above me just called it an nvidia connector though. So he is wrong, thanks.

The 12pin is the Nvidia connector, you said the AMD connector was catching fire left and right, which it is not....

Now I don't get what is difficult for you to understand here. Nvidia enabled DLSS4.5 on hardware that can't run it and it leads to a decrease in performance. The whole point of upscaling is to increase performance. So when talking about this elephant, what purpose would it serve to enable a feature for AMD that decreases performance and image quality? If AMD did what Nvidia did, you'd be screaming about dumb they are and they can't do anything right.

 

[Hecate91]

Then release it on time and let the user decide. Unless an rtx 2060,a 299$ card from 2018 can run it better than the 7900xtx, a 1k$ card from 2023, something is off here

The 2060 barely runs upscaling, so that makes no sense.
As for something being released on time, who cares, the only ones still complaining about it are the Nvidia users.

AMDs defective connectors burning cards left and right, oh boy.

I'm basing amd cause the first time they managed to make a good upscaler they locked it to their new gpus. That's deplorable and if Nvidia had done that you'd be outraged, so cut the bs.

The 12vhpwr connector was developed by PCI-SIG in collaboration with Nvidia and Dell, AMD had nothing to do with the burning prone 12vhpwr connector. Obviously with how massive of a company Nvidia is, they must've had some influence on how the connector was designed, with form over function to fit their FE cards.

Let's talk about the 12VHPWR connector....

Nvidia is doing the same thing, MFG and dynamic MFG isn't supported on the RTX 40 series, imagine spending piles money on a 4090,only to be told you can't use a feature on a powerful GPU and you're supposed to just trust the jacketman (most Nvidia users do since in their eyes their beloved AI company can do no wrong) because their features are a fully walled garden with no chance that any features get leaked.

 

[Strawman]

The 12pin is the Nvidia connector, you said the AMD connector was catching fire left and right, which it is not....

Now I don't get what is difficult for you to understand here. Nvidia enabled DLSS4.5 on hardware that can't run it and it leads to a decrease in performance. The whole point of upscaling is to increase performance. So when talking about this elephant, what purpose would it serve to enable a feature for AMD that decreases performance and image quality? If AMD did what Nvidia did, you'd be screaming about dumb they are and they can't do anything right.

But amd is bring fsr 4 to rdna 2. So clearly they are *****s right?

 

[Strawman]

The 2060 barely runs upscaling, so that makes no sense.
As for something being released on time, who cares, the only ones still complaining about it are the Nvidia users.

The 12vhpwr connector was developed by PCI-SIG in collaboration with Nvidia and Dell, AMD had nothing to do with the burning prone 12vhpwr connector. Obviously with how massive of a company Nvidia is, they must've had some influence on how the connector was designed, with form over function to fit their FE cards.

Let's talk about the 12VHPWR connector....

Nvidia is doing the same thing, MFG and dynamic MFG isn't supported on the RTX 40 series, imagine spending piles money on a 4090,only to be told you can't use a feature on a powerful GPU and you're supposed to just trust the jacketman (most Nvidia users do since in their eyes their beloved AI company can do no wrong) because their features are a fully walled garden with no chance that any features get leaked.

The 2060 runs upscaling perfectly fine. Actually it runs upscaling better than amds 2023 flagship, lol.

You are supposed to trust Lisa su when she moves your gpu to the garbage bin with end of line drivers after 2 years and outdated upscalers while people that invested in nvidia got the best upscaler on their 2018 gpu. Imagine someone buying a 7900xtx for 1200$ and end up having a worse upscaler than a 2018 300$ nvidia gpu. Horrible. No wonder they are at 3% marketshare.

 

[Rapob]

I stopped there because I knew you were brainwashed.

Nvidia and AMD basically have the same product on the shelves and one is about 30% more expensive than the other. You need to be delusional to even imply there is a clear win between the two because there isn't. At least, you don't need to worry about that 12VHPWR connector or Nvidia releasing drivers wrote by AI entirely.

Sony is not using Nvidia features beside a couple of PC offerings, that they are abandoning altogether to focus on their games on the console. PSSR 2 and FSR 4 are basically going to take over because they are Open Source and Nvidia is abandoning gaming, and it kind of already did because game developers are focusing on console. There is basically no games that are done exclusively for PC anymore, they are all just ported.

Nvidia dominate gaming GPUs still, just because AMD got slightly more marketshare and Nvidia don't care much about putting actual dGPU sales in their financial reports does not mean they abandoned gaming, Nvidia outsells AMD in dGPU's with extreme ease. Nvidia makes billions on gaming GPUs. Far more than AMD. AMD did not even make 1 billion in revenue on gaming GPUs in 2025. Go have a look at their financial report. Nvidia made 12-15 times more than AMD in 2025 in terms of gaming GPUs (desktop + mobile)

You are the brainwashed one, relying on native res gaming in 2026 without knowing anything about new hardware. I bet you use a dated AMD GPU. You are clueless about these new technologies. You have zero experience with it. You are in denial because you can't use it - You can't afford to upgrade.

DLAA beats native, literally shits on native. DLAA always looks far better than native. DLSS is freaking native, with enhancements like top tier AA and sharpening applied. Even DLSS on Quality / Ultra Quality looks better than native, while delivering vastly higher fps.

DLDSR beats native too and works vastly better than AMD VSR with a lower perf hit.

Plenty of ways to make "native" look even better.

I laugh when I see people on dated hardware claim native is the way to go. Sadly their dated crap hardware can't do native in newer demanding games anyway. Hardware is obsolete for high/ultra settings after a few years.

Your hardware is dated and old, you hate new hardware because you can't afford it, that is reality for you. Now go work instead of complain. Make dime like me. Then you might be able to afford new and shiny hardware too.

Stop trying to polish a piece of crap.

You can ramble all day, people like you, uses old dated hardware and refuses to accept reality. All because of no experience with it. Denial is the easy route when you can't afford the good stuff anyway.

 

[Rudyduu]

Yes it's true, as you can see 5070 Ti wins here, and has option for better features with alot more support in the actual games.

9070 XT might be better value, especially when looking at rasterization only, yet many people don't care about just raster these days. They want the entire package to be good:

DLSS/DLAA continues to beat FSR/FSR Native in both quality and game support.

Frame Gen, Nvidia wins very easily. Less issues, less input lag, less smearing, works much better overall. Even Smooth Motion beats AFMF, less artifacts and less issues.

ShadowPlay beats ReLive, better quality, lower perf hit.

Reflex beats Anti Lag (or should we call it FSR Latency Reduction) = Less input lag on the Nvidia side.

DLDSR beats VSR, as the perf hit is lower on the Nvidia side due to AI cores doing magic. DLSS/DLAA can even be used on top. FSR can't do that. This makes sense to to for many. Take a silly 1080p monitor. Enable DLDSR to get downscaled 4K/UHD, apply DLSS and your perf hit will be low while making native 1080p look plain bad.

Nvidia still have better RT (and especially Path Tracing) perf. FG/MFG and Upscaling is very important here as well, so this is a Win/Win/Win for Nvidia. Typically you combine them all.

What people pay for on the Nvidia side, is features and actual game support of these.

I would pick 5070 Ti over 9070 XT any day of the week if price is the same or close.

Only if 9070 XT is 25% cheaper, preferably more, it will make sense to me. That is current pricing pretty much.

9070 XT is not a bad card, but it is not high-end by any means. Neither is 5070 Ti. These offerings are upper mid-end at best.

My 4 year old 4090 beats both with ease and just continues to impress me.

AMD cancelled the bigger RDNA 4 SKU sadly. 9070 XT is a 5070 Ti counter, and still loses overall. For the price, 9070 XT still makes sense for many but NO-ONE would pick 9070 XT if they were offered to pick a FREE CARD between these two.

FSR 3.1 was pure garbage and still is. FSR 4.x is decent but DLSS 4.x is still the superior upscaler and DLAA also beats FSR Native. Anyone who claims otherwise has no clue and is biased. I have tried them both multiple times.

DLSS 1 and FSR 1 was trash. Pure garbage.
With DLSS 2, people began using it. That is 6 years ago and it just kept improving since.
FSR 4 is vastly better than FSR 2/3 luckily, yet DLSS 4 is the superior option.

Looking at the whole picture, features included, is the reason many buy Nvidia still. Many don't care about paying 10-20% more for better support. Most don't look at just rasterization performance these days.

These cards aren't designed for ray traced gaming. They just aren't powerful enough to run RT in most games at high settings/resolutions at what would be considered playable rates. If you are turning down settings to get to 60fps what's the point? I'd much rather game at 120fps with high settings without RT than barely getting to 60fps with RT.

They aren't the same price, and no one is giving them away for free. Your 4090 doesn't matter at all in this conversation, I don't know why you brought it up. You can't buy them new right now and certainly not for $1000-$1200. What's the point in bringing up the card you do own when it's not either of the ones in this article?

Stop fanboying for any company, they don't care about you or any of us.

I won't care about RT until turning it on doesn't significantly affect framerates.

I don't care about FSR or DLSS or frame gen. Not using them introduces zero extra lag.

I'm not paying more for features I don't care about especially when the performance is so close. Nvidia shouldn't have jacked up their prices and I'm not going to reward them for doing so.

 

[Rudyduu]

You are the brainwashed one...

I laugh when I see people on dated hardware claim native is the way to go. Sadly their dated crap hardware can't do native in newer demanding games anyway...

Your hardware is dated and old, you hate new hardware because you can't afford it, that is reality for you. Now go work instead of complain. Make dime like me. Then you might be able to afford new and shiny hardware too...

Stop trying to polish a piece of crap...

You can ramble all day, people like you, uses old dated hardware and refuses to accept reality. All because of no experience with it. Denial is the easy route when you can't afford the good stuff anyway...

What hardware am I running? How can you just assume you are better than anyone else? Seriously listen to yourself. No one wants to be around people like this. Who are you to tell people what they should spend their money on?

 

[Rapob]

These cards aren't designed for ray traced gaming. They just aren't powerful enough to run RT in most games at high settings/resolutions at what would be considered playable rates. If you are turning down settings to get to 60fps what's the point? I'd much rather game at 120fps with high settings without RT than barely getting to 60fps with RT.

They aren't the same price, and no one is giving them away for free. Your 4090 doesn't matter at all in this conversation, I don't know why you brought it up. You can't buy them new right now and certainly not for $1000-$1200. What's the point in bringing up the card you do own when it's not either of the ones in this article?

Stop fanboying for any company, they don't care about you or any of us.

I won't care about RT until turning it on doesn't significantly affect framerates.

I don't care about FSR or DLSS or frame gen. Not using them introduces zero extra lag.

I'm not paying more for features I don't care about especially when the performance is so close. Nvidia shouldn't have jacked up their prices and I'm not going to reward them for doing so.

I bring up my 4090 because its better than anything from 5000 series except 5090

5080 is a joke really. 5070 Ti is better value but still not good, a mid-end solution. 5080 should have had 20-24GB VRAM from day one, then it would be decent.

DLSS don't add input lag, stop being stupid, we have known this for years, higher fps = lower input lag.

You are not paying. Full stop. This is the reason, you can't afford new and shiny hardware so you hate on new tech. Nvidia RTX is a massive succes, mostly because of DLSS/DLAA/DLDSR/Reflex/FG/MFG not because of stupid RT and Path Tracing and RT/PT don't work anyway, if upscaling and FG is crap, which on AMD, it is.

FSR 4 on RDNA 4 is the only upscaling on the AMD side worth using but its still worse than DLSS 4. When it comes to FG, AMD is years behind. Downsampling (DLDSR vs VSR) = AMD years behind.

I don't fanboy at all. I just bring up reality. You don't want to accept reality. Not my fault.

 

[Rapob]

What hardware am I running? How can you just assume you are better than anyone else? Seriously listen to yourself. No one wants to be around people like this. Who are you to tell people what they should spend their money on?

I don't claim I am better than anyone, I claim Nvidia features are great, because I have access to them and actual experiene with them.

You people that can't use them, won't accept that they are good, huge difference. You deny reality. Stop whining please.

 

[Strawman]

Still on a 4090? This crap is old now, 5090 or gtfo

 

[Rudyduu]

Nope. PT is becoming mainstream with big titles now and you can forget that with an AMD card. I literally switched from AMD to NVIDIA because of path tracing and I don't play games anymore that don't at the very least have RTGI. And no, certain things cannot be done in raster, no matter what you do.

And NVIDIA literally last year showcased their Zorah demo which was rendered entirely with primary rays even in path tracing. No raster was used whatsoever. So raster will die within the next few years, I would expect. Not vanish completely, but for AAA it will no longer be relevant. We see that already now as many games come with mandatory ray tracing because it saves so much time and cost. Raster is legacy, it's old, it looks **** and it can die for all I care.

This just isn't true. Most gamers don't have a video card powerful enough to play games with RT/PT turned on without reducing quality settings and playing at 1080p.

It's not mainstream it's an option people can turn on. "Zorah Demo" is not a game it's a demo.

I bring up my 4090 because its better than anything from 5000 series except 5090

DLSS don't add input lag, stop being stupid, we have known this for years, higher fps = lower input lag.

You are not paying. Full stop. This is the reason, you can't afford new and shiny hardware so you hate on new tech. Nvidia RTX is a massive succes...

I don't fanboy at all. I just bring up reality. You don't want to accept reality. Not my fault.

Why did you bring up owning a 4090, again? What was the point you were trying to make?

You don't know me, you have no idea what I can afford, how could you possibly think you know?

I don't claim I am better than anyone, I claim Nvidia features are great, because I have access to them and actual experiene with them.

You people that can't use them, won't accept that they are good, huge difference. You deny reality. Stop whining please.

"because I have access to them and actual experiene with them." What's that supposed to mean?

"You people that can't use them" What are you trying to say?

Who is whining?

Still on a 4090? This crap is old now, 5090 or gtfo

They aren't working hard enough to afford it, I guess. They haven't accepted they are good and a huge difference, they can't handle that reality.

 

[freakleacher]

Obvously, 1080 Ti is almost 10 years old and GTX lineup is pretty much dead at this point. Nvidia have full focus on RTX.

I had 1080 Ti too, 6-7 years ago. Even then it felt slow, and I upgraded to RTX 3080 back in 2020. Massive leap and full support for DLSS/DLAA. One of the biggest upgrades ever.

9070 XT is obviously a night vs day upgrade over a dated 1080 Ti. I still see people claim 1080 Ti is a beast in 2026, they must have no clue about new hardware because it is dirt slow and has zero support for the features that makes Nvidia truly good these days, DLSS/DLAA/DLDSR/Reflex/etc.

Yes it's true, as you can see 5070 Ti wins here, and has option for better features with alot more support in the actual games.

9070 XT might be better value, especially when looking at rasterization only, yet many people don't care about just raster these days. They want the entire package to be good:

DLSS/DLAA continues to beat FSR/FSR Native in both quality and game support.

Frame Gen, Nvidia wins very easily. Less issues, less input lag, less smearing, works much better overall. Even Smooth Motion beats AFMF, less artifacts and less issues.

ShadowPlay beats ReLive, better quality, lower perf hit.

Reflex beats Anti Lag (or should we call it FSR Latency Reduction) = Less input lag on the Nvidia side.

DLDSR beats VSR, as the perf hit is lower on the Nvidia side due to AI cores doing magic. DLSS/DLAA can even be used on top. FSR can't do that. This makes sense to to for many. Take a silly 1080p monitor. Enable DLDSR to get downscaled 4K/UHD, apply DLSS and your perf hit will be low while making native 1080p look plain bad.

Nvidia still have better RT (and especially Path Tracing) perf. FG/MFG and Upscaling is very important here as well, so this is a Win/Win/Win for Nvidia. Typically you combine them all.

What people pay for on the Nvidia side, is features and actual game support of these.

I would pick 5070 Ti over 9070 XT any day of the week if price is the same or close.

Only if 9070 XT is 25% cheaper, preferably more, it will make sense to me. That is current pricing pretty much.

9070 XT is not a bad card, but it is not high-end by any means. Neither is 5070 Ti. These offerings are upper mid-end at best.

My 4 year old 4090 beats both with ease and just continues to impress me.

AMD cancelled the bigger RDNA 4 SKU sadly. 9070 XT is a 5070 Ti counter, and still loses overall. For the price, 9070 XT still makes sense for many but NO-ONE would pick 9070 XT if they were offered to pick a FREE CARD between these two.

FSR 3.1 was pure garbage and still is. FSR 4.x is decent but DLSS 4.x is still the superior upscaler and DLAA also beats FSR Native. Anyone who claims otherwise has no clue and is biased. I have tried them both multiple times.

DLSS 1 and FSR 1 was trash. Pure garbage.
With DLSS 2, people began using it. That is 6 years ago and it just kept improving since.
FSR 4 is vastly better than FSR 2/3 luckily, yet DLSS 4 is the superior option.

Looking at the whole picture, features included, is the reason many buy Nvidia still. Many don't care about paying 10-20% more for better support. Most don't look at just rasterization performance these days.

your 4 year old 4090 is only 20% faster woopy do but it cost 3x the price.

 

[Strawman]

They aren't working hard enough to afford it, I guess. They haven't accepted they are good and a huge difference, they can't handle that reality.

Yeah, guy pretends he is in the elite while using an 8 core chip and a 4 year old GPU, lol. Which is fine to have outdated hardware, but why pretend you are something you aren't.

 

[Rudyduu]

You are not paying. Full stop. This is the reason, you can't afford new and shiny hardware...

Really? Can't afford new and shiny hardware? Based on what evidence? Hypocritical coming from someone with a 4 year old video card, innit?

 

[Rudyduu]

The 2060 runs upscaling perfectly fine. Actually it runs upscaling better than amds 2023 flagship, lol.

You are supposed to trust Lisa su when she moves your gpu to the garbage bin with end of line drivers after 2 years and outdated upscalers while people that invested in nvidia got the best upscaler on their 2018 gpu. Imagine someone buying a 7900xtx for 1200$ and end up having a worse upscaler than a 2018 300$ nvidia gpu. Horrible. No wonder they are at 3% marketshare.

Where is your evidence a 2060 "runs upscaling" better than anything else? Do you have any actual data to back up your opinion? Does a 2060 run anything better than a 7900xtx? I don't think anything you said is true. RDNA 1 and 2 are still receiving driver support as reported by Arstechnica in November of last year in an article titled "After confusing driver release, AMD says old GPUs are still actively supported"

What does total market share have to do with the enthusiast PC market?

 

[Strawman]

Where is your evidence a 2060 "runs upscaling" better than anything else?

It supports the best upscaler on the market, and therefore - it has the best upscaler. This is logic 101 honestly.

 

[manowar51]

The author has the pricing wrong. The 5070Ti is easily available at the same price as the 5070XT and it was the day the article was published. Currently Best Buy and Walmart have them for $699. May 28th. In fact if you have $1050 you can get a 5080.

 

[DirtyDan]

Is driver and feature support not an indication of premium? What would qualify as premium to you then? Cause under my definition the 2070 is more premium than the 5700xt on every account.

Honestly, premium would include my drivers not causing fan control and overheating problems, not having a voltage cap bug hindering the card by 16%, wave of black screens, display signal losses over DisplayPort, and hard lockups when waking PCs from sleep, DLSS 4/GSYNC micro stuttering.

And thats just the drivers.

Another premium is the card cant potentially light on fire. Nothing says premium like the product not melting.

 

[SirRonWhite]

I currently have a 5080 for my gaming, and a older 7900xtx at work with a intel cpu.
I bought three 9070xt for my wife, grown daughter, and father in laws computer builds last fall. And they are- amazing. Not far from a 5080 at all, in rasterization. Maybe 10-15%.
I was setting up her Hogwartz game 4k at 120 and the 9070xt was just doing fine. fsr performance, RT low. There is a great guide on Youtube for min max the settings.

I am still sick at the low amount of Vram this generation for medium to enthusiast gpus. '7' card or '8' card with just 16 gb of vram for this gen, sad. Regardless of ram apocalypse that is just pathetic and built in obsolescence for us gamers.

I would buy the 5070ti over the 9070xt if the prices were the same or maybe $50 more. But NOT $300, that is a crazy $/perf. Which puts the 9070xt in the win column, for me at least.

fyi I got the 5080 from a coworker who was just upgrading computers, and gave it to me for $500 and some cnc bits. The whole computer. His boss was buying /furnishing him with a couple of new computers anyway.

It is a Asus prime gpu with a plug of death, I keep a worrying eye on the cable plug all the time. I benchmarked it and ran temps, it was all good. I will re-paste it at some point, and get a pcie 5.0 12v cable from my power supply manufacturer eventually, or a new psu altogether.

BUT I WOULD never pay over ... or even msrp price for a 5080. That is a sad joke.

 

[Strawman]

Honestly, premium would include my drivers not causing fan control and overheating problems, not having a voltage cap bug hindering the card by 16%, wave of black screens, display signal losses over DisplayPort, and hard lockups when waking PCs from sleep, DLSS 4/GSYNC micro stuttering.

And thats just the drivers.

Another premium is the card cant potentially light on fire. Nothing says premium like the product not melting.

No, premium is having better drivers than the competition. Which nvidia does. Period.