Since prices have settled a bit and drivers matured, this is the question. If YOU were shopping for a GPU in this price segment right now for 1440P and the occasional 2160P resolution, what would be your choice and why?
I would honestly go for the 4070ti, unless you suspect Vram will be a limiting factor in 2 years or so. You can make up your own mind regarding that
Emulation also fares better on Nvidia hardware from my personal experience, go Nvidia if you like Yuzu, Rpcs3 etc
It also lacks driver features like DLDSR or Reflex or better per app V-sync settings
You also get some features, that I really like, such as Moonlight for streaming which works surprisingly well, and RTX video super resolution, which works really well on 1080p sourced animated movies or media (Anything studio ghibli upscaled to 4k). I main a 6800xt but still go back to my 3070 for all the other features I have listed
No I am being serious, the problem with terms like stable and polished is that they don't really mean anything without something concrete. In what way would a 4070ti be more polished and stable than a 7900XT when it comes to drivers.
I do have a 7900XT, what did I miss, everything works fine.
A recent example would be Persona 4 Golden on gamepass crashing on my 6800xt and not on the nvidia counterpart. Another example would be cemu glitches and rare (very rare) instability or bugs when emulating on Yuzu. I never noticed them on Nvidia hardware
To this day I cant fix V-sync issues when playing Disco Elysium on steam, and no matter what I do, I get screen tear which is also a well documented issue.
4070ti
Pros.
DLSS
Efficiency
RT performance especially in games like CP2077, Witcher 3 NG.
Cons.
12GB vram is miniscule for a 800+ gpu
Poor scaling as resolution goes up
7900XT
Pros
20GB of vram
Very good raster performance at all resolution
Less driver overhead in some games especially with weaker cpus
Cons.
FSR still sucks in my book
AMD is always late adding new features as of late
This would be a pretty difficult decision for me if I was limited to spending $800 max I've never really liked the 4070ti since launch due to how much nvidia cut it down for a 800+ usd product on the otherhand even though I generally like the 7900XT better I hate FSR and would be bummed to be stuck using it in scenarios that the 7900XT didn't have enough juice which for my use case would be many.
I think if I was dead set on an amd card I would much prefer the 7900XTX it's typically 20% faster doesn't consume significantly more power and in rasterizaion can go toe to toe and even best the much more expensive 4080. I don't think there is any scenario I'd feel good about buying a 4070ti unless I got a crazy good deal on it compared to the 7900XT.
This is by far one of the best breakdowns ive seen. Minus the emulation glitches and grievences I mentioned earlier
In terms of what I like about AMD, their Adrenaline UI is a lot better, no logins needed
But one thing people dont mention is a Tendency for AMD driver being overwritten by windows, which I had to change Registry values to stop
I have also really enjoyed DLDSR even on a 4k panel on older games. I like my 6800xt but there is a lack of feature parity that is undeniable.
There's also some shortcomings that still exist in the AMD hardware but they are becoming increasingly minor, such as lack of 4:2:2 video acceleration, but it's not the end of the world.
True, I actually was annoyed at that but minor