7900 XTX at $699 vs. 5080 FE at $999 — Which Should I Choose?

Posted by Equivalent-Set-5606@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 41 comments

Hi everyone,

I’m building a new PC and need some advice on choosing between the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming at $699 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition at $999 (already ordered, can cancel the purchase). Here’s my setup and usage: • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D • Monitor: 2k ultrawide 144hz • PSU: Corsair 1000W • Primary Games: World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Battlefield 6 (no frame generation needed just announced ) • Future Plans: Upgrade in 5–6 years

Thank you!

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Dorennor@reddit

5070ti/9070XT.

It is a really bad idea to buy AMD GPU pre-FDR4, imo.

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Wander715@reddit

Yeah it's really hard to recommend RDNA3 or older at this point with the poor upscaling and poor RT. An XTX would have to be like $600 or cheaper for me to even think about recommending it. It's going to age so poorly compared to RDNA4 or any decent Nvidia GPU from the last few years.

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SherLocK-55@reddit

Honestly as it stands right now the XTX is perfectly capable of running almost anything without any need of FSR, I can't think of a single title where it has struggled natively especially at 1440p, now of course the 5080 will age much better with DLSS and the more impressive RT but honestly if RT is not a concern then the XTX will be fine for another 4 or so years.

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FVTVRX@reddit

Why

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ziptofaf@reddit

Because FSR3 is a blurry shit. Here, real life comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZU0_ZVZtOA

If you are not planning to upgrade in many years then you will need to use upscaling at some point. And FSR4 looks okay, DLSS4 looks decent... but FSR3 is crap that results in artifacting and blur all over the place.

And unlike Nvidia which supports DLSS4 just fine on 30/40 series you can't use FSR4 on older cards.

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Destructo-Bear@reddit

For the life of me I cannot tell the difference between these two videos

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ziptofaf@reddit

Look at the fur. In FSR3 it glitches out as it moves, has weird sharp edges etc. In FSR4 image is stable/consistent.

Similar thing occurs here:

https://youtu.be/EZU0_ZVZtOA?t=553

Tree in FSR3 is glitchy and unstable. With FSR4 it finally stops moving.

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doppido@reddit

With any half decent GPU you won't need to upscale at 1080p

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Calm-Bid-8256@reddit

I always hear this argument.

You know what looks absolutely great and not blurry at all?

FSR4 at native. You don't have to use te upscaling if you don't want to.

I play 1440p with my 9070xt and just run native res with FSR4 enabled.

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f1rstx@reddit

you still need FSRAA or DLAA at 1080, because TAA at 1080p is absolutely awful

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doppido@reddit

Really depends on the games TAA implementation but yeah fair I guess

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Equivalent-Set-5606@reddit (OP)

Omg! Those fsr3 pictures are how my current 7900xt (that I’m also returning) looks like 😫 and I hate it! I thought it was my monitor!

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Destructo-Bear@reddit

Okay I can see it in this one thanks. I don't think I would be personally bothered by this when gaming but I can see how it would be annoying to others

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Umbramors@reddit

Most people never use it or RT. If you are playing purely solo games and like to stop and look at puddles, maybe. If you are playing something fast paced or fps games. You won’t notice.

Recently some games have decided to not include support for FSR/RT. (I.e. BF6)

I’ve got 2 rigs with a 4080 and a Saphire 7900xtx. Both run great and I’ve never turned on the frame functions.

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Dorennor@reddit

Because pre-FSR4 AMD upscalers are bad. And even with the top line GPU you will be pushed to use it. Even if you think for now that it won't happen.

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FVTVRX@reddit

I use fsr 2 and 3, and they're good to me

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XtremeCSGO@reddit

They can sometimes be slightly usable. But fsr 4 is magic compared to them

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etom21@reddit

Do you play 20+ hours a week of VRchat using a VR headset?

If not, to with a 5080.

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Equivalent-Set-5606@reddit (OP)

I barely play wow 😅, but will keep the 5080, ty!

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Proud-Suspect-4835@reddit

5080 FE Obviously.

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arsenowitch@reddit

Just received my new PC Specs: Ryzen 7800x3d Radeon 9070XT (gigabyte gaming oc) 32 ram 2tb ssd

So it looks pretty similar to your build. After playing a few games I can definitely recommend the 9070xt Switching from i7 11700 and rtx3080 10gb, I can see the performance boost 9070xt was about 250$ cheaper than 5070ti in my country

Will see how the 7800x3d performs on Ubuntu/Fedora for work

Long story short, I'd rather recommend considering 9070xt instead of 7900XTX

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aragorn18@reddit

Have you considered the RTX 5070 Ti?

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Equivalent-Set-5606@reddit (OP)

I was originally looking at the 5070 Ti MSI Trio at $849, but then considered the 5080 FE at MSRP. Now, after the BF6 announcement that it won’t use Frame Generation, I’m wondering if I really need all the extra features of the 5080. With the $300 difference, would it make more sense to go for the 7900 XTX at $699 instead for my games (WoW, LoL, BF6) and my 3440×1440 ultrawide setup?

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BigRoostie@reddit

Hey, sorry to derail, but what was this news about frame generation with BF6? I tried googling but couldn’t find what you are talking about!

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Equivalent-Set-5606@reddit (OP)

My bad, just checked and it’s “noray tracing” I thought it was the same 😅

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BigRoostie@reddit

Haha, all good! Getting rid of DLSS on BF6 would be a pretty terrible move so I was a little worried that I had missed some crazy news 😂

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f1rstx@reddit

You need FSR4/DLSS for BF6, it’s unplayable blurry mess without them

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Umbramors@reddit

No you don’t. Beta ran fine. What are you playing on?

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f1rstx@reddit

Who said anything about fps? I’m talking about default TAA, which looks simply awful. Game was almost unplayable with “No DLSS” bug that happened during week 2. I was forced to use DLDSR to fix it

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jootrnt@reddit

I got a 5070 ti and don't regret it, even tried some 4k games in my tv with dlss. Can't wait to play BF6 Ultra Wide 3440x1440 with it, I had the 4060ti during the beta and it was already good getting around 90fps at performance preset without dlss,I also have a 9800X3D so it will helps a LOT. If you can get a 5080 go for it but if you want to get the cheaper one go for the 5070 ti, you can overclock and undervolt to get more performance.

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Captn_Clutch@reddit

Think of frame generation as future proofing. You don't need it for anything now sure, but in 4 or 5 years when that rig isn't maxing everything out no problem like it is today, instead of buying a new card or building a new rig you can try switching on frame Gen and maybe get another handfull of years out of it. I'm sure this new tech will be more prevalent in games 5 years from now than it is with today's titles.

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