The GPU Madness Has Come to This: 9070 XT vs. 5060 Ti 16GB

Consider moving to the UK or Europe in general. If you have skills that are in demand then life can be fairly good over here. I suspect it's going to get a lot worse in the US in the coming years.

I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.
 
I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.
No that’s all right wing propaganda bullshit, if anything it’s the same as it is in America where Christians are the ones forcing their beliefs on people and committing crimes based on religion.
 
I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.
I'm afraid that's absolute BS. People are of course welcome to worship whatever gods they please but my guess would be that 90% of people are atheists.
 
AMD CPU's have gotten up to Intel levels of quality and performance, but the GPU's just are not there. DLSS technology trounces FSR in every aspect, and AMD will always forever be a far away 2nd unless they actually innovate for themselves and not just copy what nVidia does.
You obviously don't read much news from tech industry... AMD has innovated, they went a different route with upscaling and it didn't work out very well. AMD has also been stronger with VRAM capacity versus Nvidia, especially lately. AMD developed a tetrahedral cage approach since BVH can use up to 80GB of memory when using ray tracing due to having to process each unique vertex position. Using the tetrahedral cage method, BVH memory is reduced to 1.7 GB. Testing was performed on a Radeon RX 9070XT at 1080p.

AMD has gone from being on the cusp of bankruptcy in 2015 to exceeding Intel in features, performance and efficiency. Intel is bleeding marketshare on all fronts against AMD. It would be nice if they invested more innovation into the GPU side, but most of that is going towards AI Enterprise class accelerators for the big tech companies throwing money at them.

 
@SteveWalton Hahaha I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek intro to your article. Reddit IS the authority on all things, after all! Perhaps all the awkwardly unnecessary profanity is the magic ingredient? ;)

I think you should hang on to your dollarydoos for now...
 
I only pay $80/month and only have a $2000 out of pocket deductible. My job pays the other $360/month for me for free. As the other user said, get a better job. 🤡🙄🤣
Again depends on health conditions and circumstances. If you or a family member has to have ongoing medication it goes up.

Still $3000 more than me a year bud
 
Neither of those cards are relevant for me.
I'm still pretty happy with my 7900 XT. It is of course a generation older, but when toying with a local LLM I do suspect the 20 GB vram does bring a little extra headroom. Gaming is also okay, even though I run a 5K monitor - it likely helps that I can make do with less than hundreds of frames per second ;-)

My point really, is that of you're in need for a new graphics card it may be worth it to widen your search to include the previous generation.


PS. If things suck in the US it may be worth considering to relocate, it may be easier than you think and most of Western Europe speaks English.
 
Depends because a phone will do what you need for 5+ years and some hold their value quite well
they dont hold their value . there is a substantial drop the first 3 years then it slows down. but so many phones on the market used that none hold value. any phone I considered prices were rock bottom in 3 years from msrp. 1/3 price and less. you wont see if you try selling at a high price because the next guy wants to upgrade and will sell lower.

phones are overpriced and under deliver
 
they dont hold their value . there is a substantial drop the first 3 years then it slows down. but so many phones on the market used that none hold value. any phone I considered prices were rock bottom in 3 years from msrp. 1/3 price and less. you wont see if you try selling at a high price because the next guy wants to upgrade and will sell lower.

phones are overpriced and under deliver
The same goes for all electronics outside of exceptional circumstances? The 15 Pro for example still 500 and the models after it drop above 100 a year. The 17 pro is still at 1,000
 
I will never forget what happened to my flagman AMD card years ago. It stopped working accurately a month after warranty expired. And since I had a lot of green cards, I know I can rely on them. None of them failed me. Is this worth paying more for? Well, for someone keeping the card a lot longer than 3 years, it definitely is. AMD should offer longer warranties for their GPUs. Then, some of us might consider choosing them. It makes no difference for me which brand runs AI better, a reliability however is the top priority for me.
 
I will never forget what happened to my flagman AMD card years ago. It stopped working accurately a month after warranty expired. And since I had a lot of green cards, I know I can rely on them. None of them failed me. Is this worth paying more for? Well, for someone keeping the card a lot longer than 3 years, it definitely is. AMD should offer longer warranties for their GPUs. Then, some of us might consider choosing them. It makes no difference for me which brand runs AI better, a reliability however is the top priority for me.
That would be on the AIB not AMD. I’ve had multiple Nvidia cards have issues or be DOA. Just luck of the draw
 
The "Nvidia is better than AMD for AI" statement is overrated. If you're not already stuck in an existing pipeline with strong hardware and software-related requirements, you should consider all available options.

I found my AMD GPUs actually really good for local AI use through LM Studio.
 
The same goes for all electronics outside of exceptional circumstances? The 15 Pro for example still 500 and the models after it drop above 100 a year. The 17 pro is still at 1,000
havent touched iphones since 4s so not sure. im now looking for a privacy phone so theres that.
 
I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.

That is completely divorced from reality. It's just alt right rage-bait. I live in Germany and there's none of that going on, despite the very significant Muslim population.
 
I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.
Go out in the world man. I heard that the US of A are experiencing a zombie apocalypse, a contagious canibalistic epidemic. It was on the twitter...for reals.
 
Now if only they compared equal cards like the 9060 XT. Coming from someone that own plenty of both... 🙄
I think the point is, you can get a lot more performance from an equivalently priced AMD card that has superior performance. The internet is replete with comparisons of 9060 XT versus 5060 Ti, but when factoring cost, you can get a lot more performance for your dollar with AMD. The disparity is so bad that it negates whatever software/hardware advantage Nvidia had (DLSS, ray tracing capabilities, etc.) versus an equivalent card, such as a 9060 XT.
 
I don't want to get political, but I always heard Islam is taking over Europe. Various youtube videos show how Islam is slowly and gradually over taking parts of Europe and some individuals are even forcing Sharia upon people there of which they have no right.
Sharia law is not taking over. Muslims seem to be friendly folks, which may contribute to more and more being involved in politics and positions of leadership. Holding on to old, inaccurate, false and dehumanizing tropes about any group of people is wrong. Perhaps you should read up on Sharia law, you might find it isn't nearly the hideous monster that you have been duped to believe.
 
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