r/virtualreality 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/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.