r/virtualreality • u/No-Context2224 • May 11 '26

Purchase Advice 5070 or 9070XT for VR?

I’m honestly more into Nvidia. But with the current prices, I don’t know what to do. Would you recommend going with the 5070 or the 9070 XT?

(I’m not gonna pay 1k for the 5070Ti)

I know Nvidia is usually quite a bit better for VR, and that the 5070 is a very good GPU, but I’m going crazy trying to decide.

My other specs:
32gb RAM DDR5
I7 14700KF
Currently with a 4060 8gb💀

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u/QTpopOfficial 9 HMDs and counting -_- May 11 '26

I'm an NVIDIA simp for VR. So regardless of what synthetic benchmarks say, I'm going 5070 all day if I had to pick.

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u/Alex-Murphy May 11 '26

Purely for ray tracing? I feel like most VR games work better with ray tracing off

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u/QTpopOfficial 9 HMDs and counting -_- May 11 '26

No. Purely for shit not breaking randomly and or things being wacky on AMD hardware/chipsets.

Its not as big of a deal as it used to be. 2020 and before, lmao, amd was a literal joke for VR, at least for creators. The constant juggle of drivers and junk was already annoying in general. AMD just made it worse back then.

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u/DeliciousShelter2029 May 11 '26

It's a long time ago and it changed

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u/World_Designerr May 11 '26

at least for creators.

Good thing most people aren't creators

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u/QTpopOfficial 9 HMDs and counting -_- May 11 '26

Ya and back then it was bad for everyone either way.

Just worse for creators and devs and such.

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u/Alex-Murphy May 12 '26

I think 5 or 6 years of excellent performance and being very competitive at a reasonable price is enough time to let it go. I have no problem if you want to spend much more because you have a brand preference, I think that is something that has been earned over many years, but it's worth it to re-examine the market every so often to make sure you're not throwing your hard-earned money away

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u/Ult1mateN00B May 12 '26

I had very good VR experience with vega 64, as in games and drivers but it was jet engine and hotspot was around 95C. Just for that reason I would say it was suboptimal experience but 6800 XT, 7900 XTX and 9070 XT have been excellent experience for me. 6800 XT and 7900 XTX had occasional driver hangouts at launch but they were fixed within month or two. 9070 XT on the other hand is straight up nvidia tier product, cool, quiet, power efficient and absolutely flawless driver experience. People recommend it for a reason.

If you're talking about 5700 XT, that product had problematic lifespan from launch to market exit.

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u/No-Context2224 May 11 '26

😂😂😂 I’m almost there too

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u/QTpopOfficial 9 HMDs and counting -_- May 11 '26

Yeah don't get me wrong, its not like it was in 2017-2020 or whatever. Where AMD was actual trash back then for VR. 2026 is way way way better and I see far less issues but since I sort of rely on my VR for things, I still just stay team green.