I upgraded from 3080 to 9070 XT and couldn’t be more happier.

• FSR 4 is as good as DLSS, with Mesa 25.2, ProtonGE and OptiScaler it’s easy to use in most games needing FSR, officially supported or not.
• 16G VRAM means never be anxious about 10GB limit again.
• No issues on Linux at all, Wayland just works, game performance is as good as Windows, Steam Big Picture is smooth.
• HDR, VRR just works. (HDR needs gamescope or ProtonGE with two environments variables, both works perfectly.)
• LACT is easy for tweaking the GPU.
• Setting 70% power limit to 9070 XT makes the GPU mostly silent, and still much better performance than 3080.

A 3080 10gb is 69-71% the performance of a 9070 xt, so you’d see a pretty big jump in raw fps. For ray tracing, the 3080 is 60-76% the performance, so a similar increase there. It’s also worth keeping in mind these numbers are from the 9070xt launch, and other benchmarks have found the performance increased over time (nearly 10% iirc), so this is probably a lowball of the difference.

It’s also a much quieter card in general, though this depends a lot on the specific variant of each card you have.

I’m in the same boat with a 3080 10gb and I was really itching to snag one when the 9070xt first dropped, but personally I decided to be patient and wait for AMD’s next gen to grab an 80 class gpu (I run 4K so kinda need it).

I have the 9070 XT, and im very happy with it. Its slow with Raytracing, but in return you dont have to deal with the horrible nvidia drivers, everything “just works”. HDR videos and things like that also work, I havent tried HDR games yet though. I dont use upscaling much, because the card is performant enough to not need it, but FSR4 should arrive for many more games soon.

What was important to me was that its a very silent card and that it has a very low power consumption on standby, perhaps the lowest Ive seen on linux. However, keep in mind that its not a top of the line flagship card, AMD skipped those this generation. Its basically a more silent, cooler running 7900XTX. If you want to wait, the next generation will probably be a straight upgrade from your card, but its years off from now. hope that helps

I have a 3080 TI and a another rig with a RX 7900 XTX and the difference is night and day, on Linux AMD works like magic. I love it.

I was running a 3080 10gb and was hitting performance issues 1440p on graphical intensive games specifically Cyberpunk. Vram usage was maxing out. 10gb of vram nowadays is not enough.

I was considering grabbing a 9070xt when it first came out. But due to stock/availability, I ended up picking up a 7900xtx on sale and I’m glad I did. 24gb of vram is awesome. It’s so nice to have the open source AMD drivers baked into Linux - no need to download the Nvidia drivers separately.

I don’t miss dlss, not a huge fan of fake frames anyways. The 7900xtx is powerful enough that I don’t really need fsr on most games. Cyberpunk was the only game I had to use FSR Native AA with frame gen which ran at 100fps and looked great. I was reaching 21gb of vram in Cyberpunk with a bunch of mods

The 9070xt is definitely worth it if you are currently maxing out your vram. The 7900xtx performs about the same with the 9070xt having a bit better raytracing.

Switch if you want the extra features, but if it’s working for you now, there isn’t an inherent danger in it becoming more problematic over time. At least not for a few years knowing Nvidia.

Also, the DLSS support is a combo of things: the Nvidia Linux driver supporting it for your model, the specific Mesa drivers supporting it for that model, the Proton layer supporting it for that game, and the developer of the game actually supporting it. Work your way up from the bottom of that chain starting with the game devs to find out which pieces don’t support it.

Might want to check into HDR support on your preferred flavor of Linux, it is one are that seems to be lagging behind.