Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition Review: Just OK

Nvidia’s 50 Series releases are chugging close along, adjacent though things haven’t precisely been smooth. The apical extremity of the bid has shown awesome 4K performance, but uncovering 1 successful banal for adjacent to MSRP requires progressive effort oregon plentifulness of patience.

At conscionable $549, the RTX 5070 is presently the slightest costly graphics paper successful the 50 Series to beryllium officially announced. It tin grip 1080p gaming conscionable fine, but it struggles to support up astatine 1440p, and particularly with high-refresh-rate monitors becoming much common. It's a bully size, but I’d urge redeeming up for the much costly GPUs, oregon looking astatine erstwhile generations.

Compact Shape

This caller paper is noticeably smaller than the RTX 5080 FE (8/10, WIRED Recommends) and RTX 5090 FE (7/10, WIRED Recommends), rising conscionable hardly supra the apical of the PCIe plate, with a existent two-slot width and a magnitude that’s a afloat 62 millimeters (2.4 inches) shorter. It’s besides smaller than the Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti (8/10, WIRED Recommends), which uses a much accepted cooler setup. While the larger cards would acceptable successful astir builds, the RTX 5070 should person nary issues uncovering its mode into adjacent the astir compact cases.

It’s a shame these Founders Editions aren’t an unlimited offering, due to the fact that I deliberation this procreation is rather nice. I’m a large instrumentality of the design, which has an understated look that feels truly premium. I’m not a instrumentality of brightly lit cards with designs that can’t beryllium matched to different parts, and I deliberation the Founders Edition cards volition look close astatine location successful astir immoderate case.

Like the different 50 Series cards, the RTX 5070 FE uses the caller 12V-2x6 connector, and includes a braided nylon adapter for your existing PSU. You should lone request a 650-watt powerfulness proviso for this card, down from 750 watts for the 5070 Ti, which volition erstwhile again payment tiny and fund strategy builders.

Gaming Performance

I’ve dug into the effects of multiframe procreation successful the different reviews, the RTX 5090 FE successful particular, truthful for this reappraisal I focused connected show with the diagnostic turned off. If you’re trying to guarantee creaseless performance, the other frames per 2nd (fps) it provides volition astir apt beryllium worthy it for this paper much than the others.