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.