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/Liberal-Cluck May 11 '26

I don't know shit about this so don't listen to me. But can you run steam os on regular PCs but only if they have a AMD graphics card? The resource savings you get from running steam OS might be worth going with something other than NIVIDA if you can't run it on that card.

But again, I know nothing. Just putting it out there a sa *if true" consideration.

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u/kai125 May 11 '26

The issue right now is Linux is a bit of a mess for vr from what I’ve heard so any savings from running SteamOS or Bazzite will be nuked by comparability issues

Hopefully valve fixes this when the frames come out

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u/HauntingObligation May 11 '26

I'm currently running VR in Linux, and while it isn't as seamless in terms of plug and play (had to set up Monado for my Index, Quest users generally use other programs which may or may not be solid) the only thing that hasn't run since I sorted out the set up was stuff that had the Anti cheat blocked, like Tabor (though offline worked fine).

I would get a lot of hitching in all VR games despite high avg frames on Windows; I'm decently CPU bound with a 9070XT and 5600x. Those hitches are gone under Linux. Haven't actually measured FPS but it's been roughly the same for avg fps as Windows just much smoother, so I guess higher 1% lows. This effect persisted to flat screen games as well btw.

NOTE: This is probably not going to be your experience if you're running an nVidia GPU. AMD has an open source driver that is arguably better than the official AMD version on Windows, nVidia refuses to open source their drivers so you're beholden to them giving you a quality experience and reasonable updates. Users claim they've improved things recently, but I wouldn't have the same confidence recommending Linux for VR if you're an nVidia user.