I was shopping around for cards relatively recently so I have looked up some data on power consumption of these cards. 9070xts that rival 5070 tis are typically OC models in 350W territory. However these numbers aren’t all that useful as they are only maximums. Real consumption will vary heavily from game to game and even setting to setting. For example in cyberpunk at 1440p with almost max settings with RT (but no path tracing) my 5070 ti is showing its consumption to be around 180W, if I turn on DLSS5 it goes to around 250W, still a bit from the 300W limit. I only saw it hitting the limit in furmark, but that is designed to do that. I’d expect similar behaviour from other cards, including AMD.

Considering that computer graphics have always been full of tricks any new tech should be judged based on what it achieves and at what cost first and foremost instead of being dismissed solely on how it works. So far I’ve only tried the leaked version in stalker 2 and I also think that it has potential but currently there are graphical artifacts, also there are instances of characters looking noticeably different and the fps hit is not particularly small either. For the record I am using 5070 ti and running the game at 1440p native/ DLAA.

I’d expect it to not run at all, no? Otherwise why are we not seeing ddr5 only mobo/CPU compatible ddr4 sticks?

Even local only (which you know won’t be the case here) is an issue. It still allows one to record stuff that one shouldn’t.