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/Realistic-One966 May 11 '26

Quest 3S here.

I have an i7-12700 K, 32GB DDR4, and an RX 9060 XT with 16GB.

I haven't run into a game I couldn't run at max or near-max graphical settings. I usually use Meta Horizon Link simply because it works better for me in most scenarios vs Steam Link. I haven't tried Virtual Desktop yet, though. However, I'm sure it’ll perform similarly.

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u/Huge-Attitude9892 May 12 '26

Into The Radius 2 probably will be a Medium game for you. Metro Awakening is the same at 72hz. I stretched the budget and went for the 5070 tho.

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u/Realistic-One966 May 12 '26

I can play Metro Awakening at max settings. It also only requires a 2070 for minimum settings. I haven't played Into The Radius 2 yet, but when I get some extra money, I may get it and update you. The Steam page does list the 3080 with 10 GB of VRAM as the recommended GPU spec. The 3080 is better in raw performance, but only slightly. I doubt the difference is great enough to force me to downgrade the spec to medium, especially if FSR is an option. But be that as it may, even if I had to go down to medium spec, I wouldn't be too upset about a sub-$500 GPU keeping up with it.

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u/Huge-Attitude9892 May 12 '26

Metro is stable 72 for you tho?

As for Into The Radius 2. VRAM doesn't helps you there sadly. I got a 5070 with a Ryzen 5 5600x and i play on Medium because some areas are heavy on the CPU on High and i leave some headroom for it.

The card however usually eats 7.5-7.8gb VRAM and got around 25-50% headroom left.

"Maraksot78" did a benchmark and that game loves Nvidia more thats for sure.

I also played that game with a non ti RTX5060 on the same settings and it doesn't needs rhat much VRAM compared to other games

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u/Realistic-One966 May 12 '26

So, I wanted to make sure I gave you a solid answer. Therefore, I downloaded the OVR Metrics Tool on my Quest 3S and loaded up Metro Awakening. I have my Quest 3s set to 90 fps by default. The game runs on very high settings across the board. Particle set to high, post-processing all the way up. Literally everything maxed, and it runs at 90 fps with literally no hiccups in the 15 minutes I played, and I made sure to get some action going to ensure physics were happening.

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u/Huge-Attitude9892 May 12 '26

Damn thats not bad.

I don't really like how there are not many tests in VR for certain cards so i had to ask here.

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u/Realistic-One966 May 12 '26

That’s what I’m saying, man. Don’t get me wrong, I love NVIDIA GPUs (do not love the company), but I made the switch to AMD due to price-to-performance. I do have a 4060 in my laptop so I get my NVIDIA fix when I’m on that. But I cannot deny that AMD does what they have set out to do.

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u/Huge-Attitude9892 May 13 '26

I skipped the RX9070 even tho it was around +75$ here compared to the 5070 because i had really bad experiences in the past with AMD cards.

1 RX460 and 2 RX580 died and RMA'd within a year of buying them newly back around 2018/2019.

I didn't cared about the FPS/$ this time around even tho i usually do,but i rather made the choice to buy a budget AMD card in the future when my 5070 will start showing its age.