AMD or NVIDIA: PC Upgrade

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Azzanation said:

JRPGfan said:

The type of memory doesn't matter at all.... only the size (because you can run into situations where your then limited by amount of ram).

The 5070ti does use alot less power.
If you care about using like ~80watts less when gaming, yes that is a valid argument.
The thing is, the 600$ for the AMD card, vs the ~1300$ current price for the Nvidia card....
means it will take awhile before the power consumption differnce earns itself back.

Like how long would you need to play a game for 80watts to cost like 700$ ?
Years?

Well GDDR7 will be faster Ram which will mean you won't need asmuch. But I do like the sound of 16gigs over 12gigs.

Yeah I understand to make up the power output would take awhile but that could also lead to the Nvidia card running cooler meaning it most likely have a longer life span ontop of being cheaper to run. It's still a neat advantage.

GDDR7 is faster, yet it's on 192bit bus, unlike 9070XT that has 256bit bus. But indeed, in the end 5070 somewhat edges 9070XT in memory speed with 672 vs 640 Gb/s.

As for temperature, they are about the same for GPU, but 9070XT runs quite a bit hotter on VRAM - 85 on average, vs sub 70 for 5070.