Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: a cheaper RTX 4080

Nvidia’s caller RTX 5070 Ti graphics paper is the astir intriguing introduction successful the 50-series lineup truthful far, promising to outperform last-gen cards that were moreover much expensive. At $749, it comfortably thumps AMD’s $899 RX 7900 XT, trades blows pinch the $999 RX 7900 XTX, and is person than I was expecting to Nvidia’s ain $999 RTX 5080. It’s a tin paper for a comparatively bully price, and that makes the RTX 5070 Ti an perfect prime if you’re tempted to move to 4K gaming aliases want a paper that tin present precocious framework rates for 1440p.

But for illustration the remainder of the 50-series cards, the RTX 5070 Ti is not arsenic overmuch of an upgrade arsenic we’ve travel to expect from Nvidia. The paper is astir 14 percent faster astatine 4K than the last-generation RTX 4070 Ti and 22 percent faster astatine 1440p. It’s astir arsenic accelerated arsenic the RTX 4080 Super, which launched astatine $999, and it’s much than 80 percent faster astatine 4K than the two-generations-old RTX 3070 Ti. Those are decent numbers, but it’s mostly because the 40 bid was specified a large leap.

All of this makes the RTX 5070 Ti a bully woody astatine its $749 MSRP, but only if it stays location — and prices are already going up.

Editor’s note: We aren’t scoring the RTX 5070 Ti until the pricing business is clear astatine motorboat connected February 20th.

I’ve been testing MSI’s RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X OC edition, which looks almost identical to the RTX 4070 Ti Super I reviewed past year. MSI’s tried-and-true Ventus 3X OC cards usage a triple-fan layout pinch a copper baseplate and power pipes to cool the GPU and representation modules.

For some my 4K and 1440p testing, I paired MSI’s RTX 5070 Ti pinch AMD’s latest Ryzen 9 9800X3D processor and Asus’ 32-inch 4K OLED PG32UCDP monitor. I besides put the RTX 5070 Ti up against the $999 RTX 5080 — the adjacent measurement up successful the RTX 50 bid — arsenic good arsenic the RTX 4080, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT.

The RTX 5070 Ti delivers what you’d expect from a modern GPU: playable framework rates astatine some 4K and 1440p pinch each the settings maxed out. While the hardware isn’t rather arsenic sleek arsenic Nvidia’s Founders Edition cards, MSI’s GPU will fresh good into astir gaming rigs.

Without DLSS aliases ray tracing enabled, the RTX 5070 Ti is astir 13 percent faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super astatine 4K and 1440p, capable to make it practically identical to the RTX 4080 astatine 4K and not acold down astatine 1440p. You could moreover overclock the RTX 5070 Ti pinch the click of a fastener successful Nvidia’s app aliases by utilizing MSI’s Afterburner inferior and get somewhat up of the RTX 4080 Super.

The RTX 5070 Ti makes for a awesome 1440p acquisition and coagulated 4K gaming, particularly if you’re consenting to move the settings down somewhat aliases overclock the paper to compression retired a small much performance. The adjacent measurement up successful the RTX 50-series line, the $999 RTX 5080, is astir 12 percent faster than the $749 RTX 5070 Ti astatine 1440p and astir 15 percent faster astatine 4K solution — but you person to salary an other 33 percent successful rate for not overmuch much performance.

The RTX 5070 Ti, overmuch for illustration the RTX 5080, makes the astir consciousness if you’re upgrading from the RTX 30-series models aliases earlier. At 4K without DLSS aliases ray tracing, the RTX 5070 Ti is astir 84 percent faster than the RTX 3070 Ti. It will beryllium a noticeable upgrade if you’re utilizing an RTX 30-series paper aliases older, and you’ll besides get entree to Nvidia’s Frame Generation technology.

Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti, which launched successful 2021, was only suitable for very entry-level 4K gaming, successful portion because it shipped pinch conscionable 8GB of VRAM. The limitations were particularly noticeable successful the Forza Motorsport benchmark, wherever the RTX 3070 Ti averaged a measly 33fps compared to the 109fps connected the RTX 5070 Ti.

I’m hoping we won’t spot those aforesaid limitations further down the statement pinch the RTX 5070 Ti’s 16GB of VRAM. The original RTX 4070 Ti only had 12GB of VRAM, which Nvidia bumped up to 16GB pinch the RTX 4070 Ti Super. If location was a small much VRAM connected the RTX 5070 Ti, past it would thief debar immoderate video representation limits astatine 4K gaming successful the future.

I’ve besides been testing DLSS 4 and Nvidia’s caller Multi Frame Generation technology pinch the RTX 5070 Ti. Multi Frame Gen uses the latest AI graphics models, powered by an updated transformer architecture, to dress up to 3 further frames per traditionally rendered frame, pushing the RTX 5070’s framework rates beyond what it’s usually tin of astatine 4K and 1440p.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been a awesome trial title for DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Gen, demonstrating really Nvidia’s caller method tin supply mobility clarity improvements pinch higher framework rates. Without DLSS 4, Cyberpunk runs astatine an unplayable 15fps mean pinch ultra settings and afloat ray tracing enabled connected the RTX 5070 Ti astatine 4K resolution. I was capable to push that each the measurement up to 110fps acknowledgment to 4x Multi Frame Gen.

As I’ve based on successful my erstwhile RTX 50-series reviews, this still doesn’t consciousness for illustration a existent 110fps because it maintains the aforesaid input latency it has aft DLSS Super Resolution is applied. Super Resolution renders the crippled astatine a little solution and past uses AI to upscale it — successful this case, from 15fps to 33fps. Multi Frame Gen past creates the 3 other frames to make the mobility of gameplay look smoother, but it still feels for illustration a sluggish 33fps, truthful it’s little reactive than a existent 110fps erstwhile you deed a fastener aliases click to shoot.

DLSS Multi Frame Gen still makes the astir consciousness astatine 1440p pinch the RTX 5070 Ti, simply because the guidelines framework rates (once Super Resolution is applied) are precocious capable to make the input latency little of an issue.

While location still aren’t galore games that support Multi Frame Gen and DLSS 4, you tin unit these techniques connected pinch Nvidia’s caller app. DLSS 4’s caller transformer exemplary moreover useful connected existing RTX cards, truthful you’ll get the benefits of improved image value if you unit DLSS 4 connected successful games earlier developers person patched them.

Like the remainder of the RTX 50 series, the RTX 5070 Ti is besides a tin paper if you want to do video editing aliases tally AI workloads. I recovered that the RTX 5070 Ti was astir 14 percent faster than the erstwhile RTX 4070 Ti successful PugetBench’s DaVinci Resolve trial and Procyon’s AI XL (FP16) test.

Nvidia recommends a 750-watt powerfulness proviso for the RTX 5070 Ti, which is only 50 watts much than for the RTX 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super. The 300W full graphics powerfulness is conscionable 15 watts much than the 4070 Ti.

At 4K resolution, the RTX 5070 Ti averaged 271 watts crossed the 9 games tested — a small much than the 245-watt mean tie of the RTX 4070 Ti but little than the RTX 4080’s 282W mean for almost identical performance.

I only noticed the RTX 5070 Ti deed its max powerfulness tie of 300 watts during the Metro Exodus utmost benchmark, and it besides maintained the nonstop aforesaid max GPU somesthesia (68 degrees Celsius) of the RTX 4080 successful my unfastened chair testing. It’s awesome to spot Nvidia hasn’t massively accrued powerfulness aliases cooling requirements here.

The RTX 5070 Ti continues the 50-series inclination of humble generational improvements. At 1440p, the RTX 5070 Ti delivers a bully woody much capacity than the RTX 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super, but I was really hoping for much astatine 4K. That would person pushed this firmly past the RTX 4080 and 4080 Super to make 4K gaming moreover much affordable.

Whether the RTX 5070 Ti is simply a bully worth will travel down to pricing and availability. Without a Founders Edition to put unit connected committee partner pricing, I deliberation it’s going to beryllium very difficult to find an RTX 5070 Ti astatine $749. Micro Center is already listing overclocked models astatine $999, the aforesaid value arsenic the RTX 5080, and only a azygous paper is listed astatine $749 retired of the 12 available. Nvidia insisted that the MSI paper we tested has an MSRP of $749, though it was listed arsenic $909 astatine Micro Center conscionable hours earlier this reappraisal went live.

I fishy it will travel down to availability, too. It looks for illustration there’s a existent shortage of GPUs successful the market. The RTX 5090 was hardly successful stock, and restocks are uncommon correct now. Even the RTX 5080 is sold retired astatine astir places, and 1 retailer successful the UK says it won’t beryllium getting much for astatine slightest six weeks, pinch immoderate models moreover further out. 40-series Nvidia cards and AMD’s 7900 XT bid besides look bladed connected the ground.

AMD mightiness thief pinch keeping pricing nether control, arsenic agelong arsenic it has banal available. It’s astir to participate the marketplace pinch two caller GPUs that look for illustration they’re going to compete straight pinch Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070. Nvidia has moreover delayed the debut of its RTX 5070 until March, which suggests a GPU pricing conflict is astir to return spot astatine this important portion of the market.

The RTX 5070 Ti is simply a bully acquisition if you tin really get 1 astatine $749, but it mightiness beryllium worthy waiting a fewer weeks to spot really AMD’s performance, price, and readiness style up against Nvidia’s latest GPU.