Is it worth upgrading?
A newer card winning every row of a comparison table does not make it worth buying. This works out how much faster it actually is at your resolution, what that improvement costs per percentage point, and whether a cheaper card would get you most of the way there.
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RTX 3080 Ti → RX 9070 XT at 1440p
Worth considering
Marginal- Performance gain
- +28.6%
- Estimated, native
- Measured cross-check
- Not tested
- Upgrade cost
- $599
- Price of the new card
- Cost per 1% gained
- $20.9
What you gain
- In favour: Estimated 28.6% more performance at 1440p.
- In favour: Estimated frame rate moves from roughly 90-125 FPS to 115-165 FPS.
- In favour: 4 GB more memory.
- In favour: 29.3% stronger in ray-traced workloads.
- In favour: Adds FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (driver-level), FSR 4.
- In favour: Works out at about $20.9 per percentage point of performance gained.
The two cards side by side
| Measure | RTX 3080 Ti | RX 9070 XT | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated FPS at 1440p | 90-125 | 115-165 | +28.6% |
| VRAM | 12 GB | 16 GB | +4 GB |
| Board power | 350 W | 304 W | -46 W |
| Ray tracing index | 41 | 53 | +29.3% |
| Price on record | $1,199 | $599 | -$600 |
| Launched | June 3, 2021 | March 6, 2025 | 3.8 years apart |
Where these numbers come from
- Performance gain: CompareYourGPU estimated index, native resolution, no upscaling.
- VRAM, board power and features: manufacturer specifications.
- Prices: launch MSRP. CompareYourGPU holds no verified street price for these cards, so the cost per percentage point is a reference figure rather than what you would pay today.
- The cost of the upgrade is the price of the new card. CompareYourGPU does not model what your current card might sell for.