Digital Foundry: Why We Recommend Buying a GPU Now

Just as google throws their TPU into the ring, possibly negating half the need for GPUs in AI

Sit tight, crash coming sooner rather than later. Then I'll make them beg for my business.
There's still the manufacturing capacity limit. If Google's chip is a hit, they will buy more TSMC wafers to make them and this will results in less Nvidia GPU wafers.
 
ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070 12GB GDDR7, is that a good card for my system? I have a MSI X470 Motherboard, a Ryzen 5700x, 32GB of ram, Windows 10, a 750 watt PSU I think, a big Coolermaster case, but Im not sure it'll fit in my PCI slot.. And also I dont know if I need to upgrade anything else in my case. Or my windows? Right now I have a 3070 Gigabyte Gaming OC 8GB. It's still serving me fine, in 2560x1440 I get about 100 FPS in Arc Raiders, when using DLSS Transformer model and all settings on High, RTGI is at medium.

Or a 5070ti??
Spend a bit more for the Ti with 16GB VRAM and performance if you have the budget. Will last you significantly longer if you plan to keep it. Even now games can go over 12GB easily at 4K high settings.

Or get a 9700XT which has better raster to cost ratio. AMD cards generally have less CPU overhead than Nvidia's which will better suit your Zen 3 CPU.
 
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