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January saw the launch of both the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, but today the 50 series rollout continues with the RTX 5070 Ti. Targeting a £729/$749 MSRP, this new GPU is the natural successor to the RTX 4070 Ti Super, but just how much of a generational improvement is on offer? We test rasterisation performance, ray tracing, DLSS 4, power, efficiency and more to find out…
Set to launch at retail tomorrow, February 20th, the RTX 5070 Ti is the most affordable RTX 50 series GPU yet – though it is still an extremely expensive purchase! Remember the days when the xx70 class cost about £300?
It's also worth clarifying that there's no Founders Edition for the RTX 5070 Ti, as was the case with both the RTX 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super. Instead, Nvidia sent us the MSI Ventus 3X OC model, a card we are told should land at the MSRP.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:47 RTX 5070 Ti specs
01:46 Test setup
02:52 Alan Wake 2
03:19 Black Myth: Wukong
03:46 Cyberpunk 2077
04:12 Final Fantasy XVI
04:37 Forza Horizon 5
05:00 Ghost of Tsushima
05:21 Horizon Forbidden West
05:47 The Last of Us Part 1
06:06 Plague Tale: Requiem
06:31 Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
06:52 Starfield
07:14 Total War: Warhammer III
07:54 12-game average results
09:09 Cost per frame analysis
10:48 RT Alan Wake II
11:21 RT Black Myth: Wukong
11:45 RT Cyberpunk 2077
12:06 RT F1 24
12:27 RT Ratchet & Clank
12:50 RT Returnal
13:10 RT Shadow of the Tomb Raider
13:36 RT Star Wars Outlaws
14:01 RT 8-game average
14:59 DLSS 4 – Multi Frame Generation
17:51 AI & productivity benchmarks
19:15 MSI Ventus 3X design
19:52 12VHPWR temperatures and cable current
21:19 Thermals and acoustics
21:56 Power draw and efficiency
23:31 Overclocking
24:21 Closing thoughts
| RTX 5090 | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | RTX 4070 Ti Super | RTX 4070 Ti | |
| Process | TSMC N4 | TSMC N4 | TSMC N4 | TSMC N4 | TSMC N4 |
| SMs | 170 | 84 | 70 | 66 | 60 |
| CUDA Cores | 21760 | 10752 | 8960 | 8448 | 7680 |
| Tensor Cores | 680 | 336 | 280 | 264 | 240 |
| RT Cores | 170 | 84 | 70 | 66 | 60 |
| Texture Units | 680 | 336 | 280 | 264 | 240 |
| ROPs | 176 | 112 | 96 | 96 | 80 |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2407 MHz | 2617 MHz | 2452 MHz | 2610 MHz | 2610 MHz |
| Memory Data Rate | 28 Gbps | 30 Gbps | 28 Gbps | 21 Gbps | 21 Gbps |
| L2 Cache | 98304 KB | 65536 KB | 49152 KB | 49152 KB | 49152 KB |
| Total Video Memory | 32GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR6X | 12GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Interface | 512-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1792 GB/Sec | 960 GB/Sec | 896 GB/Sec | 672 GB/Sec | 504 GB/Sec |
| TGP | 575W | 360W | 300W | 285W | 285W |
First, a quick spec recap. Whereas the RTX 5080 is a full implementation of the GB203 die (378mm2), RTX 5070 Ti is cut down across the board. Comprised of six Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs), each holds up to eight Texture Processing Clusters (TPCs), with a total of 35. Each TPC is home to two Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), giving us 84, and each SM still holds 128 CUDA Cores, meaning the RTX 5070 Ti has a total of 8960 shaders. We also find 70 RT cores, 280 Tensor cores, 280 Texture Units, and 96 ROPs.
This time around, however, there's no node-shrink, and GB203 remains fabricated on TSMC's N4 node, as per the RTX 40 series. As such, rated clock speed has not stepped forwards this generation, with the RTX 5070 Ti rated at 2452MHz, which is actually lower than the 2610MHz boost of the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super.
The memory configuration is almost identical to the RTX 5080. That means we find 16GB of GDDR7 memory, but it's clocked slightly slower, at 28Gbps, and that puts total memory bandwidth at 896 GB/s, a 33% increase over the RTX 4070 Ti Super. L2 cache still comes in at 49MB.
Lastly, the RTX 5070 Ti features a 300W TGP. This is something we focus on closely in this review, using our enhanced GPU power testing methodology, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.
