Sales of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will begin tomorrow, February 20. And today, specialized media and bloggers have published reviews of the models, which will be offered at a recommended price of $749. Given the high demand and the fact that the new product will not be released in the reference Founders Edition, the card is unlikely to be available for a long time at the recommended price. In Western stores, its cost, depending on the manufacturer, reaches $1000.
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The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is based on the GB203-200 graphics processor. The chip contains 45.6 billion transistors and is manufactured using TSMC’s 5nm process technology. It includes 8960 CUDA cores, 280 texture units, 128 rasterization units, 70 SM units, 280 tensor cores, and 70 RT cores. The declared base frequency of the GPU is 2300 MHz, and the boost frequency of the chip is 2452 MHz. The card received 16 GB of GDDR7 memory with a speed of 28 Gbps per contact, support for a 256-bit bus, and a bandwidth of 896 GB/s. The declared power consumption of the new product is 300 W, but custom models may consume more.
MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X OC PCB. Image source: TechPowerUp
TechSpot’s tests show that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is on average about 6.4% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti in games at Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) without ray tracing and scaling technologies, and only 3.1% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super in the same conditions. At the same time, the new product is 3.6% slower than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and about 6-8% slower than the RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4080.
In traditional, non-ray-traced rendering at 1440p (2560 x 1440 pixels), the new RTX 5070 Ti was just 7% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super and 8% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, but was 12% slower than the RTX 5080, according to TechSpot.
At 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) resolution, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti was 11% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super, 14% faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, and 13% slower than the RTX 5080.
TechPowerUp’s tests generally confirmed TechSpot’s results, although they showed a slightly better picture for the RTX 5070 Ti. The new product demonstrated performance on par with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, being up to 13% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti at 1080p, up to 24% at 1440p, and up to 22% at 4K. Both reviewers used Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors and 32 GB of RAM (DDR5-6000 for TechSpot, DDR5-6200 for TechPowerUp) in their test systems. In both cases, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X OC graphics card with additional factory GPU overclocking was used as the test subject.
One of the key advantages of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, as well as the entire GeForce RTX 5000 series of graphics cards, is the support of the multi-frame generator (MFG), which, with the help of AI, can generate up to three additional frames for each rendered frame. In turn, previous-generation cards can only offer the generation of one additional frame. MFG significantly increases FPS, but its operation depends on game developers – MFG support requires integration directly into the game itself.
Operation of the multiframe generator
According to TechPowerUp, the RTX 5070 Ti delivers up to 49% better ray tracing performance than the RTX 4070 Ti. On one hand, this can be explained by the increased number of RT cores in the new graphics card. Another reason is the use of 16 GB of faster GDDR7 memory, while the RTX 4070 Ti only has 12 GB of GDDR6X.
The difference in ray tracing performance between the RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 4070 Ti Super (16GB GDDR6X) is not that significant anymore, with around 15% in favor of the new-gen card. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is up to 42% slower than the RTX 5070 Ti in ray tracing.
As mentioned above, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti does not have a reference Founders Edition. However, the declared power consumption of the new product is 300 W. TechPowerUp tests showed that in games the card consumes an average of about 287 W (at least in the MSI Ventus version). The maximum power consumption was 308 W (307 W with ray tracing). At the same time, short-term power consumption spikes (20 ms) reached 348 W. Power consumption in idle is 18 W. The reviewer did not like the cooling system from MSI – it seemed loud to him.
Temperatures and noise
In its conclusion, TechPowerUp notes that with a suggested retail price of $750, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is a great choice given its performance. In fact, the RTX 5070 Ti’s suggested retail price is $50 lower than the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti at launch. According to TechSpot, the RTX 5070 Ti becomes significantly less interesting at prices above $800, which is exactly what buyers can expect for these cards in the coming months.