NVIDIA GeForce 5070 Ti review: A ‘sensible’ 4K powerhouse for $749

Honestly, it’s hard to remember simpler video card shopping days, where GPUs are well outpaced manufacturers’ price increases before crypto enthusiasts, supply chain issues and pandemic demand. Ideally, I want to tell you that the $549 RTX 5070 from Nvidia and the $749 RTX 5070 TI are more reasonable alternatives $2,000 RTX 5090 and $1,000 5080. But card manufacturers and retailers have pushed the RTX 5070 price higher, far beyond these MSRPs. Our auditing unit, ASUS 5070 TI Prime, is currently on sale Best Buy $900 and Newegg $750 (We will see how long it lasts). Of course, both stores are out of stock.

While I can’t guarantee the actual cost of any RTX 5070 TI card, I can say: they will certainly be more stable than the RTX 5080 and 5090’s 4K performers. But if you don’t try hard to upgrade, it’s worth waiting for months to stabilize inventory and price.

hardware

Depending on its specifications and (promising) price, the RTX 5070 TI currently offers the best balance between performance and value in the NVIDIA lineup. It has 8,960 CUDA cores and 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, which is well below the 10,752 CUDA cores of 5080, but at least these cards have the same amount of memory. The cheap 5070 only requires 12GB of VRAM, which can be a problem when gaming in 4K.

Our Asus 5070 Ti card is fairly undescriptive, with three fans, a plastic frame and a standard radiator design. You can choose between performance and quiet BIOS mode, which only changes the motivation of your fans. Its 2.5-slot design makes it small enough for the small factor case, although I noticed that it is actually a little bigger than the RTX 5090 Founder Card.

The 5070 TI can also be easily placed in more gaming rigs without power upgrades. It has a peak attraction of 300 watts compared to the 360W of the 5080 and the 575W of the 5090. This means the 5070 TI should be able to run comfortably with the 850W PSU without having to leap to a huge 1,000W unit.

What really makes this GPU unique, though, is that it fully supports multi-frame power generation in DLSS 4, NVIDIA’s AI upgrade technology. This allows the GPU to render to each frame in real time, and can generate up to 3 frames using AI. It also lets NVIDIA claim that the 5070 matches the $1,599 RTX 4090 speed. While you can say that these frameworks are just “fake” to make the benchmark look better, my time with the RTX 5070 TI and 5090 shows that they are indeed ahead of the pack. Get a smoother gaming experience.

Except for the multi-frame generation, other DLSS 4 The function can also be dripped into early NVIDIA cards. As I pointed out in the 5090 comment: “The single-frame generation of the RTX 40 cards will be more efficient, while the RTX 30 and 20 cards will also see upgrades to the AI ​​transformer model for ray reconstruction (resulting in more stable ray tracing ), super resolution (higher quality textures) and deep learning anti-reduction (DLAA).

In use: Capable 4K gaming GPU

First thing first: In most benchmarks, the RTX 5070 TI is only slightly faster than the 4070 and 4070 TIs. In the 3DMark Timepy Extreme test, the new card leads 17% over the 4070 TI, 21% faster than the 4070 Ti Super in the Speedway Batch. The difference is even smaller in original computing and rendering tasks: the 5070 TI is 8% higher than the 4070 TI in the Geekbench 6 GPU benchmark.

But, of course, actual gaming performance is more important than benchmarks. And if you support DLSS 4, you’ll definitely notice some improvements. Dragon Age: Veil Maintained a steady 200fps in 4K with 4x multi-frame generation, ray tracing and graphics settings maximization, on 4070 Ti I usually see single frames with the same graphics settings and DLSS 3.5 between 90fps and 100fps generate.

Now, I can’t actually say that the game looks smooth on my Alienware 32-inch QD-Oled display, but it certainly looks silky in the few hours I’ve tested it. No strange upgrades to artifacts, those frameworks feel Real. It is also worth noting that the RTX 5090 is Dragon Age Have the same graphic settings. Maybe my CPU put it back a little bit (I’m running the Ryzen 9 7900X), but the 5070 TI’s performance is still very close, while being a much cheaper GPU.

Cyberpunk 2077 In Ray Tracing Overdrive mode, the ray effect with multi-frame Gen is dreamlike, reaching an average of 150fps. This is well below the stunning 250fps number of 5090, but it’s still impressive for the game used to bring a powerful rig to the knee. Sepunk It also reaches 230fps With the same settings in 1440p, it can also be beautifully upgraded to a 4K screen.

For games without DLSS 4, Halo infinitethe 5070 Ti is still a solid performer, reaching an average of 140fps and has the largest graphics and ray tracing. By comparison, the 5090 averaged 180fps. Even if you are lucky enough to have a 240Hz 4K monitor, I bet that the speed is good even when it is required for gamers. However, if you care more about frame rate than resolution, it will still allow you to override. I saw 220fps Halo infinite 320fps at 1440p and 1080p.

The Asus 5070 Ti is usually idle between 30C and 35C and quickly reaches 65C under load. Its fan array is not like 5090 Founder Cardbut it still manages to lower it to below 40 degrees Celsius in about 15 seconds.

Should you buy the RTX 5070 TI?

In short, the RTX 5070 TI handles almost everything I throw, but I don’t find myself too much of the 5090 (besides bragging rights). Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to test the RTX 5080, but given its high cost, this is still something I recommend to anyone.

The real question for gamers now is: Do you need 16GB VRAM and higher CUDA counts for the RTX 5070 TI? If your goal is playing in 4K most of your time, it’s more than just the 12GB of RAM from the 5070s. Games are getting more and more complicated every year, so you actually need 16GB of VRAM to play 4K games comfortably. But if you live 1440p, 12GB may be enough in the next few years.

The multi-frame Gen of DLSS 4 is the biggest attraction of the NVIDIA 50 series cards and is most useful for 4K gaming. So if you’re happy with a 40-Series GPU and don’t need to push the 4K 240Hz display to the limit, there’s not much reason to upgrade. But for owners of 30 and 20 series, your patience will pay off.

As I mentioned before, it’s still worth waiting for a few months to see how the price is priced. If you are lucky enough to rate the RTX 5070 TI for $750. But this is eye-catching at $900 or more. By then you’re too close to the $1,000 MSRP of $5090.

We are still waiting to see what AMD is coming soon RDNA 4 Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT GPU Will perform, but they are positioned as direct competitors to the 5070 and 5070 TI. AMD will finally have a DLSS-like AI-powered upgrade this year, so its cards may differ less from Nvidia than usual. But Nvidia also has a dramatic start, which may take some time AMD’s fluid motion frame Catch up with the multi-frame generation technology.

Summary: A great 4K card…if you can get close to $750

this RTX 5070 TI Win my victory in a way I didn’t expect. I know this will be a little faster than the 4070 Ti Super, but with the addition of multiple frames, it’s also a powerful 4K card. And it’s definitely more futuristic than the 5070, as it has 16GB of VRAM, like the 5080.

While I think $549 5070 is still the most interesting entry for Nvidia’s new family, it’s nice to see that there are wise fans between this and $5090 of $1,000. Yes, it’s still weird to call the $750 video card “Sexible”.