Our ASUS 5070 Ti board is quite simple, with three fans, a plastic chassis and a standard heatsink. You can choose between an efficient and silent BIOS mode, which only changes the aggressiveness of the fans. The 2.5-slot design makes it small enough for small form factor cases, although I noticed that it’s actually slightly larger than the RTX 5090 Founders card.
The 5070 Ti can also be easily adapted to multiple gaming platforms without the need to upgrade the power supply. Maximum power consumption is 300 watts, compared to 360 watts for the 5080 and 575 watts for the 5090. This means the 5070 Ti can easily run on an 850 watt power supply without having to upgrade to a massive 1000 watt unit.
However, the special feature of this GPU is that it fully supports multi-frame rendering in DLSS 4, NVIDIA’s AI enhancement technology. This allows the GPU to generate up to 3 frames in real time using AI for each frame rendered. This also allows NVIDIA to claim that the 5070 can match the speed of the $1,599 RTX 4090. While you could argue that these images are simply “faked” to make the benchmarks look better, our time with the RTX 5070 Ti and 5090 showed that they actually delivered a smoother gaming experience.
In addition to multi-frame generation, other features in DLSS 4 are also carried over to previous NVIDIA cards. As I noted in my review of the 5090: “The RTX 40 cards will be more efficient at generating frames, while the RTX 30 and 20 cards will also see an update to the Transformer AI models used for ray reconstruction (leading to more robust ray tracing), super resolution (higher quality textures) and deep learning (DLAA).
Used: a powerful GPU for 4K gaming
First things first: the RTX 5070 Ti is only slightly faster than the 4070 and 4070 Ti in most benchmarks. The new card is 17 percent faster than the 4070 Ti in the 3DMark Timespy Extreme test and 21 percent faster than the 4070 Ti Super in the Speedway test. When it comes to computing and rendering tasks alone, the difference is even smaller: In the Geekbench 6 GPU benchmark test, the 5070 Ti scored just 8 percent more than the 4070 Ti.
But of course actual game performance is more important than benchmarks. And if you’re playing something that supports DLSS 4, you’ll definitely notice some improvements. Dragon Age: Guardian of the Veil it maintained a steady 200 fps at 4K with 4x multi-frame rendering, ray tracing and maximum graphics settings. On the 4070 Ti I typically saw between 90fps and 100fps with the same graphics settings and DLSS 3.5 single frame rendering.
I can’t quite say that gaming was twice as smooth on my 32-inch Alienware QD OLED display, but in the hours I tested it, it felt really silky smooth. These images did not appear to exhibit any strange scaling artifacts. WHERE. It’s also worth noting that the RTX 5090 reaches 240 fps dragon time with the same graphics settings. Maybe my CPU was holding me back a bit (I’m running a Ryzen 9 7900X), but the 5070 Ti’s performance remained remarkably similar despite being a much cheaper GPU.
Cyberpunk 2077 It also ran like a dream at 4K in overdrive ray tracing mode with multi-frame rendering, averaging 150 fps. That’s well below the 5090’s astonishing 250 fps, but still impressive for a game that brought powerful platformers to their knees. cyberpunk It also reached 230 frames per second in 1440p with the same settings, which also fits perfectly on 4K screens.
For games without DLSS 4, e.g infinite haloThe 5070 Ti still showed solid performance, averaging 140 fps with maximum graphics and ray tracing. By comparison, the 5090 averaged 180 fps. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a 240Hz 4K display, I’m willing to bet that even the most demanding gamers will be happy with the speed of the 5070 Ti. But even if frame rate is more important to you than resolution, you’ve come to the right place. I saw 220 frames per second. infinite halo at 1440p and 320 fps at 1080p.
The ASUS 5070 Ti normally reaches a temperature of 30-35°C at idle and quickly reaches 65°C under load. The fan design is not as advanced as that of the 5090 Founder card, but still manages to cool the card below 40°C in about 15 seconds.
Should you buy the RTX 5070 Ti?
Simply put, the RTX 5070 Ti handled almost everything I threw at it, and I didn’t miss the 5090 much (bragging aside). Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to test the RTX 5080 yet, but given its high cost, I still can’t recommend it to anyone.
The real question for gamers right now is: do they need the RTX 5070 Ti’s 16GB VRAM and higher CUDA numbers? If you want to play in 4K most of the time, it’s worth having more than 12GB of RAM than the 5070. Games are getting more complex every year, so it probably won’t be long before you need 16GB of VRAM to comfortably play 4K games. But if you live at 1440p, 12GB will probably be enough for the next few years.
The multiframe generation of DLSS 4 is the biggest draw of NVIDIA 50 series cards and is especially suitable for 4K gaming. So if you’re happy with your 40-series GPU and don’t need to push a 240Hz 4K display to its limits, there’s no reason to upgrade. For owners of the 30 and 20 series, however, the patience will be worth it.
As I said before, it’s worth waiting a few months to see how prices stabilize. If you have a chance to get the RTX 5070 Ti for $750, take it. But at $900 and up, it’s much less attractive. At this point, you’re simply too close to the 5090’s $1,000 MSRP.
We’re still waiting to see how AMD’s upcoming RDNA 4 Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs will perform, but they’re positioned as direct competitors to the 5070 and 5070 Ti. This year, AMD is finally offering DLSS-style AI-based scaling, so the gap between its cards and NVIDIA’s may be smaller than usual. But NVIDIA also has a significant lead, and it will likely be a while before AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames technology can keep up with multi-frame generation.
Bottom line: A great 4K card… if you can get it for nearly $750
It appealed to me in a way I didn’t expect. I knew it would be a bit faster than the 4070 Ti Super, but the addition of multi-frame rendering makes it a much more capable 4K card as well. And it’s significantly more scalable than the 5070, as it has 16GB of VRAM like the 5080.
While I think the $549 5070 is still the most exciting addition to NVIDIA’s new family, for sensible enthusiasts it’s nice to see something in between the $1,000 5090. And yes, it’s still weird to call a $750 graphics card “reasonable.”
