Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: bad start, decent GPU

Powerful astatine 4K and 1440p alike, though its inflated motorboat pricing makes it a unfortunate of circumstance

I’m a spot precocious to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which means that this reappraisal – portion already a dismal nonaccomplishment successful the glowing robot eyes of the Internet nowness instrumentality – tin astatine slightest origin successful the discourse of the GPU’s archetypal fewer days connected sale. Said discourse tin beryllium summarised thusly: Ah. Umm. Errrrrrrr.

No, aboriginal beingness has not been benignant to the RTX 5070 Ti. Inadequate stocks and the deficiency of an Nvidia-made Founders Edition, dissimilar those of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, person chopped the chances of uncovering 1 astatine the intended £729 / $749 RRP to beauteous overmuch nada. Not to notation however immoderate models are shipping with missing render output units, perchance hurting performance. It’s a saddening start, made each the much unfortunate by the information that the RTX 5070 Ti truly isn’t a atrocious graphics paper successful itself.

If it were me, sure, I’d astir apt clasp retired for a basal terms exemplary – the 1 I’ve been testing, Zotac’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AMP Extreme Infinity, ups itself to £910 / $930, with styling that’s somewhat excessively 'Decepticon’s lunchbox' for my tastes. But wrong each that bulk is simply a GPU that tin some devour max-quality 1440p live and withstand the rigours of 4K, particularly with the assistance of the DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation (MFG) that the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super miss retired on.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: 4K benchmarks

To amusement what I mean, we instrumentality to the RPS trial rig, which I’ve conscionable updated with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (taking the spot of the Intel Core i9-13900K). For the second clip successful 2025, this kills the examination worth of each erstwhile GPU benchmark results – you’re welcome! – but the 9800X3D should beryllium the amended enactment successful time, particularly for the 1080p and 1440p tests wherever it astir comfortably beats the i9-13900K. Anyhow, look, graphs:

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In summation to thumping the RTX 4070 Ti successful comparatively faster games similar Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus, the RTX 5070 Ti besides keeps its caput overmuch amended successful tricky ones similar Cyberpunk 2077 F1 24. It’s really knocking connected the RTX 5080’s doorway successful the latter, and is much oregon little cervix and cervix successful Assassin’s Creed Mirage.

I didn’t person a useful RTX 4070 Ti Super to trial with the caller rig, though extrapolating from however it compared to the RTX 4070 Ti successful erstwhile tests, I’d beryllium amazed if you wouldn’t inactive get double-digit framerate upgrades from each of these games extracurricular Horizon Forbidden West. The RTX 5070 Ti besides sticks with the last-gen Super version’s VRAM upgrades, and goes 1 measurement further by switching its 16GB of 256-bit representation to GDDR7. Definitely capable for 4K, successful different words.

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The RTX 5070 Ti is besides much flexible with its framework generation. The accustomed disclaimers apply: Nvidia’s AI generated frames summation input lag alternatively than cutting it, truthful you should ever guarantee a unchangeable basal of traditionally rendered frames earlier trying framework gen. But that’s much attainable with the caller exemplary than it was connected the RTX 4070 Ti – with upscaling, the RTX 5070 Ti tin conscionable astir negociate playable framerates with Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2’s harshest settings, path tracing included.

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Obviously, 4x MFG puts ocular smoothness beyond thing the RTX 4070 Ti tin anticipation for. What’s arguably much important, though, is that the older GPU falls abbreviated of 30fps, meaning it’s not suitable for moving this calibre of prime settings with retired without framework gen. The RTX 5070 Ti is.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: 1440p benchmarks

The RTX 5070 Ti besides makes consciousness arsenic a luxury 1440p driver. Although neither of its predecessors were lacking here, the caller GPU inactive makes immoderate sizeable gains, with Horizon Forbidden West and Total War: Warhammer III benefitting especially. There besides looks to beryllium plentifulness of headroom for much pixel-heavy ultrawide resolutions, similar 3440x1440.

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Without the added strain of 4K, the RTX 5070 Ti tin besides truly commencement excelling with those hard way tracing and ray tracing effects. Take Alan Wake 2: the RTX 4070 Ti is plentifulness playable here, averaging 45fps with the assistance of Quality-level DLSS upscaling, but the RTX 5070 Ti’s 55fps is visibly slicker and somewhat much responsive successful the hand. Then, erstwhile again, MFG steps successful to triumph the numbers crippled decisively.

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The lone existent origin for intermission present – not that you can simply hop connected Ebuyer close present and unreserved your mode to an RTX 5070 Ti acquisition – is that it’ll beryllium worthy waiting to spot however the incoming RTX 5070 compares, perchance arsenic good arsenic the AMD Radeon 9070 XT. The RTX 5070 Ti tin evidently seashore its mode to creaseless 1440p, though its adjacent proximity to the RTX 5080 besides makes maine wonderment if it mightiness beryllium much of a 'budget' (relatively speaking) 4K contender, with cheaper alternatives making for amended worth connected Quad HD monitors. We’ll see.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: 1080p benchmarks

Unlike with the RTX 5080, I fishy determination mightiness beryllium astatine slightest immoderate maddened souls who’d see an RTX 5070 Ti for humble 1080p. Thus, here’s a graph to amusement however silly that would be:

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It’s not that the RTX 5070 Ti stops being faster than what came earlier – granted, with the assistance of possibly the astir bottleneck-avoidant CPU connected the satellite – but erstwhile you get truthful acold into the triple digits, numerical advantages cease to person the interaction that they bash beneath 120fps oregon so. Especially so, if you don’t person the benignant of high-end show whose refresh complaint is capable to support gait with the framework output.

There are surely overmuch much businesslike graphics cards for 1080p, with the RTX 5070 Ti being rated for 300W of max powerfulness drinkage and requiring astatine slightest a 700W PSU. 750W, successful the lawsuit of this Zotac model, though astatine slightest it’s not an vigor hog arsenic a substance of course: I recorded it peaking astatine 253W, good shy of its authoritative maximum, portion moving an intensive Cyberpunk 2077 session. I’ll besides concede that 1 upside to its goliath dimensions is cooling performance, with the GPU temp lone reaching 54°c nether load. That’s positively icy by modern graphics paper standards; the high-tech, dual-axial instrumentality plan of the RTX 5080 Founders Edition cooler could lone support its lid astatine 65°c.

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For £729, you could chalk up the RTX 5070 Ti arsenic different serviceable if seldom breathtaking Nvidia GPU. As we’ve seen, however, the occupation is that you person astir arsenic overmuch accidental of getting this paper for £729 arsenic you bash of buying Alexandra Palace for a tenner. And erstwhile existent prices are moving truthful adjacent to the introduction level of the RTX 5080 – which, for each its ain banal shortages, has a Founders Edition that is astatine slightest sold in mentation for nether a expansive – past it’s just to commencement asking questions. Questions similar "Why should I not conscionable get the 5080 instead?" and "How, Nvidia, did you hide what happened successful 2020?"

While the RTX 5080 goes harder connected PSUs, and doesn’t supply overmuch meaningful other oomph astatine 1440p, it is much mostly futureproofed, with a marked 4K vantage that tin beryllium enjoyed today. At saner prices, the RTX 5070 Ti would inactive beryllium much of a crowdpleaser, but determination are intelligibly immoderate kinks that request moving retired earlier it’s earnestly worthy your cash.

This reappraisal is based connected a retail portion provided by the manufacturer.