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Jun 26, 2025 3:40 AM
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frontpage Posted by 0ne_tap • 6d ago
Jun 26, 2025 3:40 AM
ASRock Steel Legend Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
+ $13 S/H$700
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As of this post, AMD's Windows drivers and software are more stable, more user friendly, and better designed than NVIDIA's. Particularly, when it comes to setting up display resolution and color settings suitable for HDR.
The NVIDIA Control Panel hasn't seen any major revision, or design change since 2003.
Lately, NVIDIA's drivers have caused me, and other 40/50 series users, serious problems.
In addition, there are other NVIDIA problems that I, thankfully, haven't had to deal with. You know, the melting 12VHP connectors, cards shipping with missing RoPs, BS marketing, media manipulation, and blatant anti-competitive practices, Just to name a few.
So this month, for the first time in 22 years, and 11 NVIDIA GPUs, I bought AMD. In fact, I replaced a 4080 with a 9070 XT.
Yeah, the 9070 XT is a little weaker on paper, FSR4 is only 90% as good as DLSS, and it doesn't have ray reconstruction.
In trade, I no longer have to:
1. Cherry pick an older version of the GPU driver to have a stable experience.
2. Install my GPU drivers with a 3rd party program to prevent NVIDIA'S telemetry from uploading almost a GB of telemetry data in a month.
3. Deal with random game crashes caused by frame gen and DLSS.
4. Make sure the monitor I have selected as my primary display in Windows is plugged into the right most Display Port connector to avoid crashes.
5. Repair, or reinstall Windows because it refuses to boot, on a faulty driver.
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It also runs on consoles. It's vastly superior to the vintage dlss
It also runs on consoles. It's vastly superior to the vintage dlss
I had two options both gigabyte, a 9070xt for $750 or a 5070ti for $820. I went Nvidia because I haven't had one in over 20 years. I have been exclusive to ATI. Is it better than the 9070xt? Who knows, was it worth about $100 more, I don't know. I will say Oblivion Remastered looks pretty as fark with all the gimmicks on the Nvidia turned up.
As for this card. I won't buy assrock or powercolor, so $700 would be a pass. All the people talking about $600 msrp. That was a bullshit price, and everyone let the scam out of the bag with their place holder prices after the bots bought up the stock at launch. All the stores showed $750 to match the actual msrp of the 5070ti. That is what AMD wanted to sell the card for. The only reason prices have come down is because scalpers aren't moving these cards because people are scared the economy is going to crash and it's harder to part with cash to a scalper than to charge it to a credit card and make payments to a store.
This gen had a bunch of driver issues lol all seem good now though
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