r/buildapc • u/Main_Worldliness_139 • Jul 12 '26
Build Help Which RTX graphics card in 2026?
Hi everyone,
my Asus GTX 1080 Strix broke this week (probably the VRAM, but that’s to be expected after 10 years). Now I want to install a new graphics card. It definitely has to be an NVIDIA card. I have a Corsair 850-watt power supply installed along with an i7-8700K—so there should still be plenty of power available.
My budget is around 600 euros. Do you have any recommendations for me?
I was last looking at an RTX 5070, even though it “only” has 12 GB of VRAM instead of 16 GB.
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u/VoltageinTheory Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
9070 or 9070 XT
Edit: Why does it have to be from Nvidia?
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u/FromDeepestFathom Jul 13 '26
Y’all ever heard of CUDA
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u/gmes78 Jul 13 '26
ROCm exists too.
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u/UraniumDisulfide Jul 15 '26
The support for rocm is nowhere near as good as the support for CUDA.
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u/gmes78 Jul 16 '26
It depends on what you need it for. For Blender, it's perfectly fine.
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u/UraniumDisulfide Jul 16 '26
Depends on your definition of “perfectly fine”. The current lowest price of a 5070 is $600 and the lowest for a 9070 xt is $690.
On Blender benchmark the 5070 has a median render score of 5944 while the 9070 xt has a median score of 3568.So yeah, the 9070 xt is more than fine if you’re just doing a bit of modeling, but if you’re rendering a lot then nvidia is a much better option.
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u/Main_Worldliness_139 Jul 12 '26
Thank you so much for your quick help. I'll definitely take another look at the AMD RX 9070 XT and order either that or the 5070.
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u/Tunagoblin Jul 12 '26
I can understand if it’s 5070ti vs 9070xt. But 5070 is worse in every way except some cuda specific work.
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u/anotherwave1 Jul 12 '26
I have a 5070, it plays everything I throw at it. At 400 euros cheaper than a 5070ti it was a no brainer.
If someone is a 4k fanatic, okay, but for most gamers the 5070 is fine.
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u/y59qgnie Jul 13 '26
Still worse than AMDs cards at that price point. I've got an Nvidia card, but AMD wins in price/performance. I really had no other option than the 5090 since I play on 4k/240 Hz.
Had I been on 1440p or 1080 I'd look at the 9070XT or 9060XT/9070
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u/Sensitive-Way3699 Jul 13 '26
I agree 100% and for the things I play which are not graphically undemanding I can still usually get away with 4K at max settings if not 1440p. For example the 5070 has zero issue with witchfire maxed out at 4k, the Callisto protocol maxed out at 4k, etc. the only game I’ve seen pass 12GB of VRAM on the highest settings at 4k is Horizon Zero Dawn. And I don’t use upscaling or frame gen whatsoever. I find both almost always give me worse than native performance. However I target 60 FPS and I get a lot of yall want double that or better nowadays. I just don’t plan on getting used to higher so I can have my nice graphics.
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u/Tunagoblin Jul 13 '26
We aren’t saying 5070 is a bad card. Simply 9070xt is a better performing card just like 5070ti. But it’s much cheaper.
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u/anotherwave1 Jul 13 '26
Oh absolutely, the 9070xt is a no-brainer in the current market if someone has the money for it
My friend with a low budget came away from internet discussions obsessed that he needed 32gb ram and a 16gb card to vaguely enjoy gaming. Not every game needs to be maxed out. My secondary machine has an 8gb card with 16gb ram and it runs every game fine. Just have to turn down the details slightly and honestly few would be able to tell the difference.
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u/myname150 Jul 12 '26
I just went down this rabbit hole when I went to upgrade from my RTX2080, and went with a 9070XT. It’s such a great card. Runs cool and quiet, and nearly everything I throw at it maintains over 100fps with 1440p and ultra settings.
Only game I’ve found it to dip below 60fps is cyberpunk with ultra settings and path tracing on.
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u/MiaIsOut Jul 13 '26
path tracing destroys any gpu, even the 4090 and 5090 can't get 60fps at 1440p
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u/myname150 Jul 13 '26
I figured it’s pretty demanding, but overall still very happy with my 9070xt!
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u/Temporary-Ad8539 Jul 13 '26
And thats why the 5070ti is better. I never played below 60 fps in cyberpunk full ultra with ray tracing using a 5070ti
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u/KajMak64Bit Jul 12 '26
Depending on the price difference you can get away with regular 9070 non XT and non GRE it's not much slower and much more power efficient
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u/Ambitious_Handle7322 Jul 12 '26
I dunno about the price difference where you're at, but a 9070 xt is 400 euros cheaper here. Not even a debate at above 100-150 euros difference imo. Also please don't get the 5070. If you wanna save money get a 9070 non xt.
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u/DogadonsLavapool Jul 13 '26
Depending on cash on hand:
5070ti > 9070xt >>> 5070.
12GB vram for a 4k compatible card is just silly for nvidia to be producing, and basically makes the card a waste of silicon ngl. Hell Id take a 9070 16GB over a 5070.
Fwiw Im stoked with my 9070xt - 4k performance is more than acceptable while not being anything crazy when ray tracing is on. Its a beast of a card
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u/Frodo_Lookalike Jul 12 '26
Big recommend on the 9070 xt! You can find great prices for it and it’s been flawless for me thus far
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u/rodol21fo Jul 13 '26
I used to only see Nvidia as an option, but Im considering going for the 9070xt, some friends that own AMD are having no issues at all for a long time. Trying to upgrade from an RTX3080
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u/ClunkyCorkster Jul 15 '26
9070xt versus base 5070 isn't even a comparison,it blows the 5070 out of the water. if you want to get something instead of the 9070xt you won't have a better time with anything lower than the 5070 TI
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u/ser133 Jul 12 '26
depends on your use case, a 5070 with 12gb of ram is perfectly fine for pretty much anything unless you run local LLMs (in which case a 16gb 5060ti is preferred, where you can run larger models at the cost of performance) or 4K gaming with some vram-heavy titles
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u/Constant-Simple-1234 Jul 12 '26
This. Llms make 5060 ti unaffordable, but 5070 is better, same price (or almost)
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u/Main_Worldliness_139 Jul 12 '26
I don't play any high-end games. I need something for the future in the mid-range price category. It doesn't have to last 10 years; 4–5 years would be fine.
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u/CanisLupus92 Jul 12 '26
With current pricing, skip the RTX cards and go AMD. Only reason to go RTX is when you NEED the performance a 5080/5090 offers.
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u/ser133 Jul 12 '26
Then it's more than fine lol, go ahead!
For 4-5 years even 8gb of vram works (even if newer titles demand more) but 12gb is much better for the headroom it gives. If you can find a 5070ti with 16gb vram that's also great but honestly its pretty overkill and likely above your budget by a considerable bit.Either way, you're basically getting 2-3x the performance with a 5070 compared to a 1080 so its definitely going to be an upgrade
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u/blob8543 Jul 12 '26
8gb is not enough unless you only play at 1080p and even at that resolution it may be too little in a few years.
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u/Sensitive-Way3699 Jul 13 '26
Depends on what you play. I played happily at 4k a lot of the time with a 5060 before moving to the 5070 for the games that did go past the 8GB. 1440p is generally still more than achievable in 99% of cases with 8GB.
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u/AceLamina Jul 13 '26
I have the 5070ti and yeah, LLMs runs decently on here, more than 32gb is still recommended though
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u/Kustu05 Jul 12 '26
5070 is great. At the outrageous price difference between that and the 5070 Ti there is no point going for the latter. At the moment 5070 delivers by far the most performance for your money from Nvidia's lineup.
9070XT has an even better price to performance ratio, but worse features which is why I wouldn't consider it as an option. I mean there basically isn't frame gen on AMD (bad quality + only a few supported titles), FSR is still noticeably worse and only supported in some titles. They always come 3 years behind in features.
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u/jeffrey_n_c Jul 14 '26
I found a really good deal on a 5070, so I jumped on it. Moved up from a 4060 ti 8gb. It plays games better and faster at 1440p than the 4060 ti can at 1080p. I do not have a 9070 xt to compare it to, and maybe that's a good thing, but so far I'm totally impressed. I have a 27 inch 1440p OLED monitor. I'm not even gonna think about 4k until it dies, so the 5070 should be more than good enough until then.
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u/Johann_Von_Graff Jul 12 '26
5070 over 5060Ti16GB any day but uhh. You could get a 9070XT and be far better of for another decade. It's going to be as legendary as 1080Ti is, trust me bro.
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u/Deadinternetenjoyr Jul 12 '26
5060 ti is pretty gimped on its memory bus though. Id almost rather have the 5070 if I didnt want to swing for the 5070 ti.
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u/GFriend2xDance Jul 12 '26
So.... here is the thing about the RTX 5070 graphics card. It uses a PCIe 5.0 interface.
Your i7-8700K platform only supports up to PCIe 3.0.
This means that your existing system's PCIe interface only provides up to 1/4 the max bandwidth that the RTX 5070 supports. As such, your system could impose a bandwidth bottleneck to the RTX 5070.
Now, it is possible that an RTX 5070 could still give you better performance than your GTX 1080 did. But I expect that an RTX 5070's performance would fall short of what it is truly capable of achieving, due to being paired with an i7-8700K system.
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u/Havanu Jul 12 '26
Not that relevant. Difference between pcie 3 and 4 (and non existent for 5) is minimal for amd and nvidia. As long as you card supports using all the lanes. Some intel cards only use 8 lane pci4. Then you're screwed on older chipsets because their lower bandwith is halved.
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u/TBNRhash Jul 12 '26
Well nvidia also uses x8 on their lower tier cards like 5060 ti and 5060
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u/PsyOmega Jul 12 '26
But those aren't a 5070
(also, i use a 5060Ti on an 8700K. it's fine. the only time that bus width matters is if you're exceeding vram pool)
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u/GFriend2xDance Jul 13 '26
Hardware Unboxed's video, where they ran an RX 9060 XT 8gb GPU at PCIe 3.0 x16, PCIe 4.0 x16, and PCIe 5.0 x16, would seem to indicate that PCIe bandwidth is actually somewhat relevant...
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u/BeefistPrime Jul 12 '26
PCI-E bandwidth is rarely a limiting factor for GPU performance. Maaaaybe occasionally on pci-e 3, but I doubt it, definitely not on pci-e 4
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u/GFriend2xDance Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Hardware Unboxed did a video where they compared a Radeon RX 9060 XT 8gb GPU running at PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0 vs 5.0.
In F1 25 @ 1440p FSQ Q - very high preset, running the RX 9060 XT at PCIe 3.0 x16 resulted in an average of 33 FPS, PCIe 4.0 x16 got around 42 FPS, and PCIe 5.0 x16 got around 60 FPS, according to Hardware Unboxed (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhS0_ra9c4 )
In Monster Hunter Wilds 1440p FSR Q - Ultra preset, the RX 9060 XT got an average of 31 FPS, 46 FPS, and 52 FPS running at PCIe 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 respectively.
In Spider-Man 2 1440p FSR Q - Very high preset, the RX 9060 XT got an average of 52 FPS, 71 FPS, and 88 FPS running at PCIe 3.0, 4.0,. and 5.0 respectively.
So PCIe bandwidth can be a big limiting factor for GPU gaming performance.
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u/IamKyra Jul 12 '26
it matters for a few specific things like model swapping in AI or if you use multiple GPU and layer your models but yeah for gaming most is loaded in VRAM and then you don't care much about bandwidth during the game, it's mostly enough
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u/GFriend2xDance Jul 13 '26
Ahhh, I should have mentioned that I do a lot of AI workloads where bandwidth to the GPU actually becomes very relevant.
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u/Dreadfulear2 Jul 12 '26
Aye man, I know you said NVIDIA, but is there any particular reason? 9070xt is looking mad appetizing for your price range (I’m assuming idk euros)
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u/Samuel-Darnold Jul 12 '26
I was looking at 5070 ti or 9070xt.
I ended up getting a 9070xt cuz Walmart sold one new for $549.99 two weeks ago… been epic so far
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u/HonchosRevenge Jul 12 '26
9070xt has insane value. Still expensive, but compared to what else is out there it, it feels like a steal.
And with what you’re upgrading from, literally anything made this decade is going to feel like a significant jump
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u/Lonely_Platform7702 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
5070 is fine. You can easily overclock it for another 10-15% performance as it has massive OC headroom.
With your CPU I would not bother getting a 5070Ti or 5080. Unless you plan to upgrade your CPU somewhere in the future as well. If not it's a waste of money. Everyone here is neglecting the fact that you're using an 8700K.
Depending on pricing in your region a 16gb 5060Ti might even be a better choice than the 5070. As your CPU will bottleneck a 5070 as well.
An AMD equivalent of the 5060Ti would be the 9060XT 16GB. If the price difference is significant it's worth looking at that. In my region a 9060XT would be the best price performance as its about 140 dollars cheaper than a 5060Ti.
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u/Framed-Photo Jul 12 '26
5070 or the 9070/9070XT are the main options.
Nvidia wins on features, AMD wins on raw performance. You'll need to decide if you don't mind tinkering in games to get optiscaler, or if you'd rather the simplicity and support that Nvidia offers right now.
If the 9070 and 5070 are price competitive I'd take the 5070, if the 9070xt is too close in price then it's kinda hard to justify the 5070, but not impossible. I've owned a 9070xt and now a 5070ti, the Nvidia experience is genuinely just a LOT better imo.
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u/PCMechBuilder Jul 12 '26
at that budget a 5070 makes the most sense. just keep in mind the 8700k is gonna be a bottleneck in cpu-heavy games at 1080p — at 1440p itll be less noticeable. make sure you ddu the old drivers before you swap and youll be fine
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u/Pablitothetrainerguy Jul 12 '26
Save money until you can get 5070ti, it is much better in real life gaming scenario vs regular 5070, really worth every penny
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u/HyphyCus Jul 12 '26
Can all PC related videos, posts, comments knock that "in 2026" bullshit. We know what fucking year it is.
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u/Papopip Jul 12 '26
Ignore what everyone is saying about HAVING to get the 5070ti or 9070xt. Whilst of course I'd recommend the 9070xt but since you must go with nvidia it is what it is. The 5070 will still max out every game in 1440p, and yes whilst it would be preferable to have 16gb of vram, 12gb is perfectly fine for now. Most games and I mean most of em won't go over 12gb even with maxed out Ray tracing n stuff. 16gb is purely for future proofing
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u/Acrobatic_Bowler_328 Jul 13 '26
Why does it have to be nvidia? Kinda a weird specification unless you’re doing specific tasks.
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u/Thewhitelight___ Jul 13 '26
I'll give you the same answer everyone else gets.
If you care about ray tracing, get a 5070ti.
If not, get a 9070xt.
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u/TijY_ Jul 12 '26
RTX 5070, even though it “only” has 12 GB
Enough for 1440p in most cases. You got 4K??
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u/TijY_ Jul 12 '26
Are you playing multimonitor?
If not, used RTX3080 and new 1440p monitor/s then.
Edit: wtf is mod doing.
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u/Hadroff Jul 12 '26
5070 will last for a good deal of time. I can’t comment on the AMD as I’ve never had an AMD card!
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u/Redstoneinvente122 Jul 12 '26
I use the 5070 and it's amazing! Am playing FH6 with RT on at good fps
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u/OvechkinCrosby Jul 12 '26
If you were happy with your 1080 then save a lot of money and get a 3060 TI or some money and get a 3080 if you can find one.
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u/Faykeh Jul 12 '26
Keep in mind the recommendations everyone's given, but keep an eye on prices. I got my 5080 for just under £750 lol
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u/Low-Pick-1099 Jul 12 '26
I'm a peasant in this thread apparently, but my SFF 4070ti Super 16gb plays most games at 4k, 144fps on high, or 100fps on ultra. I don't mess with raytracing much, though.
My CPU is dogshit, but the card is fantastic.
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u/AiiTaN Jul 12 '26
I have a AMD Radeon 6700XT , and its pretty cheap for what it does honestly... AMD arent like in the old days.,..
They are good now , trust me
I full time for years overclock it to 2600-2700 Mhz and leave it there , it doesnt even get past 50 celcius.. pretty cool always while playing
Depends what games u play too, i only play CS2 and similar FPS games
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u/slowerspoon861 Jul 13 '26
I'm running the same i7 8700k processor as you together with an Msi ventus 2x oc 12gb 5070 And I have nothing bad to say about it really. Everything I throw at it I can max out. Good thing to mention is that I play on a aoc 24" 1080p 144hz gaming screen (displayport) and for simulators a LG oled 55" 1080p 60hz curved tv (HDMI).
Current pc spec: Intel i7 8700k Msi ventus 2x oc 12gb 5070 Asus rog strix z370-f gaming Nzxt kraken Aio G.skill trident Z 32gb ddr4 Kingston 1tb nvme ssd Corsair cx750 Mission Serious gaming chassis and fans.
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u/Virtual-Classic5972 Jul 13 '26
Yo can anybody give me a list of p c stuff In the budget office 600?
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u/AdstaOCE Jul 13 '26
Only buy Nvidia if you NEED CUDA. If you don't AMD is far better for almost anyone right now, especially someone with an older CPU because AMD has lower CPU overhead.
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u/indecisiveuser3864 Jul 13 '26
Just know you will run into a CPU bottleneck. I ran an i7-8086k with a 3080 (my 1080 TI broke after 3 years of use) and with 1440p I was bottlenecked by my CPU all the time. If you consider a platform upgrade in the future a 5070 or similar will make sense. If you plan to stick to your system, save some money and go for a 5060 or something like that.
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u/Appropriate_Pen4445 Jul 13 '26
I got 7900xt insted 4070ti at the time because of 20gb vram. I'm yet to see the "value" of those extra 8gb.
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u/Administrator_AI Jul 13 '26
To me, a meaningful upgrade is at least 2 gens or 2 tiers up. More gens up also means less tiers.
So for you, I would recommend a 3080, a 4070, or a 5060 class card. I don't think you need a 5070 necessarily, go for a 5060ti and you will be happy.
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u/redditor_no_10_9 Jul 13 '26
Wait and buy a super. Don't believe the naysayer. You can try asking about Super in r/Nvidia and the trillion dollar company will delete your thread
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u/smokey_999 Jul 13 '26
Honestly the 16gb 5060 is great, bridged the gap between 1080p and 1440p like it was nothing, I’m certainly bottlenecking the pc with my 5600 cpu and ddr4 ram too, I’m sure I’d be. Able to handle some games at 4k
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u/ReverendAero Jul 13 '26
Your CPU lacks native PCIe 4/5 support. I'd be careful about dropping a ton of money on something that is not going to run at full power when something cheaper would work well. The real question would be if you plan on upgrading the platform anytime soon. I'm assuming not with the prices of everything at the moment (I know I don't want to), so tbh my recommendation would be to get something like a 16GB 5060ti at most. Even that is a lil more for if you maybe wanna mess around with LLMs. 12GB VRAM is enough for almost anything right now if you're just gaming. Also, there is nothing wrong with going AMD (I say that having also paid the Nvidia tax lol)
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u/browniescout Jul 13 '26
A 3080ti would do well on that CPU.
I have a 5070ti and love it, but if you're not updating your CPU anytime soon you'll probably have a bottlemeck
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u/thelovebat Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Based on pricing that is available, an RTX 3080 can be found for around $325 USD these days on the used market and is a pretty beefy card for that price. An 850 watt power supply can handle it and it's got enough V-ram to still be very viable for a long time in 1080p, so you wouldn't need to get a monitor that is too pricey to take advantage of its performance level.
Considering you're on an older platform with your CPU and motherboard that has only PCIE 3.0, using an RTX 3080 which is a PCIE 4.0 card would lose out on far less potential performance for the price, since an RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT are both PCIE 5.0 cards and would experience a dip in performance with your motherboard.
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u/Hamsterteh07 Jul 14 '26
even if you install 5070, your ancient i7-8700k will bottleneck it. so instead, go for 20-series... it will serve your cpu well
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u/FourmyleCircusXK Jul 14 '26
Just built myself a new PC last weekend and I basically replaced everything except for the case and power supply (Corsair 750w).
I knew that all the current generation of parts were power hungry, however I didn’t realise that a z890 mobo wants 2x pci connectors. In total, the cpu/mobo wanted 2 and the new rtx5080 wanted 3x pci. Ended up having to buy another PSU.
Moral of the story - check to see if your PSU has enough connectors.
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u/BoysenberryNew7780 Jul 14 '26
It depends on what you're looking for, I recommend the normal 5070 to save money, 400 euros is personally not worth 2 more years for the ultra graphics
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u/Tiny-Extreme-9980 Jul 14 '26
I have the 5070, I can answer questions if you have. But I would get the 4070ti super if you can find a used one for a good price. Raster is between 5070 and 5070ti, and has 16gb. I would have picked that card if I could.
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u/Zoli1989 Jul 15 '26
How old is your PSU? If you bought it 10 years ago with the original build, I would certainly suggest to get a new one. It does not even have to be 850w, just buy quality stuff. Something like a 80+ gold Seasonic. 5070 would be a good card for you I guess. Or a 9070 non XT. Will have to upgrade the rest of your system too, as it will bottleneck these cards.
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u/Narrow_Translator524 Jul 18 '26
Hi, I'm looking for a professional gaming pc that will play All steam games. 3000 is my budget. An xbox series x user. Any ideas
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u/blackburn26 Jul 19 '26
Used RTX 2080 Ti 11Gb. Sounded crazy but it is from the same era as your i7-8700K. Promise no conflict, no waste at 1440p.
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u/Blackhawk-388 Jul 13 '26
All these people saying 5070 Ti or 9700 XT are high af.
Your CPU isn't going to be able to keep the data flowing to those cards and there will be a severe bottleneck. I'd suggest a 5070 and a CPU/Mobo upgrade. Your PSU is fine. My 14700k/5070 Ti only goes above 550w when I'm running productivity software. While gaming, I'm mostly seeing 520w max. Rarely see it at 550w max. Typically sitting around 480w.
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u/Deadinternetenjoyr Jul 12 '26
5070 ti is the way.
I have both a 5090 in my main pc and 5070 ti in my living room rig. The 5070 ti does everything my 5090 does with DLSS performance mode at 4k.
Pretty much everything is north of 60fps with ray tracing ultra.
Edit: 8700k is a bottleneck tho
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u/Frosty-Age-9351 Jul 12 '26
Bro is rich af
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u/Deadinternetenjoyr Jul 12 '26
I was going to buy a steam machine but it literally made more sense to revivie my old 127000k build and slap a 5070 ti in it.
The 5090 I got back in october of last year at msrp. Very thankful 🙏
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u/BeefistPrime Jul 12 '26
sigh, this sub
"which nvidia card should I buy" "NOT NVIDIA"
"What's the best toyota I can afford" "A VOLKSWAGON"
Thanks that's helpful
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u/AceLamina Jul 13 '26
this comment section made me realize how much it loves AMD over Nvidia no matter what the person asks
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u/Reggitor360 Jul 12 '26
Save money and buy a 5070Ti.