NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: Bad Start, decent GPU

I'm a little too late for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which means sales. The context can be summarized in this way: Ah. Um. Errrrrrrr.

No, early life was not friendly to the RTX 5070 Ti. Inadequate shares and the lack of a founder edition produced by Nvidia, in contrast to those of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, have the chances of one with the intended £ 729 / $ 749 RRP To find pretty nada, lowered. Not to mention how some models with a lack of render output units are sent and the performance may affect. It is a sad start that, through the fact that the RTX 5070 Ti is really a bad graphics card, made it all the more unhappy.

If I were, I would probably hold a basic price model – the thing I tested, Zotacs GeForce RTX 5070 TI AMP Extreme Infinity, increases to £ 910 930, whereby styling is something. Decepticons lunch box 'for my taste. But within all this mass there is a GPU that eats both Max. 1440p alive and the strict of 4K.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: 4K benchmarks

To show what I mean, we return to the RPS test rig that I have just updated with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D (which the Intel Core i9-13900K take). For the second time in 2025, this kills the comparative value of all previous GPU benchmark results -you are welcome! -But the 9800x3D should prove to be a better option in good time, especially for the 1080p and 1440p tests, in which the i9-13900K defeat the most convenient. Anyway, look, diagrams:

In addition to the RTX 4070 Ti in relatively faster games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus, the RTX 5070 Ti also holds its head in tricky, such as Cyberpunk 2077 F1 24. The latter and is more or less neck and neck in assassins Creed Mirage.

I didn't have a practical RTX 4070 Ti to test with the new Rig, although I was extra -digit upgrades for frame rate in previous tests compared to the RTX 4070 Ti, I would be surprised Horizons banned west. The RTX 5070 Ti is also liable to the VRAM upgrades of the last super version and goes one step further by changing its 16 GB of 256-bit memory to GDDR7. In any case for 4K, in other words.

The RTX 5070 Ti is also more flexible with its frame generation. The usual disclaimers apply: Nvidia's AI increase frames increase the input delay instead of cutting them. But this is more accessible with the new model than on the RTX 4070 Ti – with UPSCaling, the RTX 5070 Ti can manage the playable frame rates with Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 from the toughest settings, including the path tracking.

Obviously, 4x MFG puts visual smoothness beyond everything that RTX 4070 Ti can hope. However, what is more important is that the older GPU drops out of 30 fps, which means that it is not suitable for executing this caliber of quality settings without frame. The RTX 5070 Ti is.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Rating: 1440p benchmarks

The RTX 5070 Ti also makes sense as a luxury -1440p driver. Although none of his predecessors were missing here, the new GPU still achieved some considerable profits, with Horizon West and Total War: Warhammer III in particular. There also seems to be a lot of headroom for more pixel-heavy ultraWide resolutions such as 3440×1440.

Without the additional stretch of 4K, the RTX 5070 Ti can also start with these difficult path tracking and radiation tracking effects. Let's take Alan Wake 2: The RTX 4070 Ti can be played here and has an average of 45 fps with the help of DLSS universities at a quality level, but the 55fps of the RTX 5070 Ti is visible slicker and a little reaction rapid in the hand. Then MFG appears again to win the number game.

The only real cause of a break here – not that you may Get on Ebuyer right now and hurry to an RTX 5070 Ti purchase – it is worth waiting for the incoming RTX 5070, possibly as well as the AMD Radeon 9070 XT. The RTX 5070 Ti can obviously pension its way to 1440, although the proximity to the RTX 5080 also asks me whether it may be more of a “budget” Quad HD monitors. We will see.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Rating: 1080p benchmarks

In contrast to the RTX 5080, I suspect that at least there could be some crazy souls that would look at an RTX 5070 Ti for Humble 1080p. Here is a graphic to show how silly it would be:

It is not the case that the RTX 5070 Ti stops being faster that you do under 120 FPS or so. In particular, if you do not have the type of high-end monitor, the update rate of which is sufficient to keep up with the framework output.

There are certainly much more efficient graphics cards for 1080p, whereby the RTX 5070 Ti is classified for 300 W Max power supply and requires at least 700 W PSU. 750W, in the case of this Zotac model, although at least there is no energy pig: I took it to 253W, well in front of the official maximum while I carried out an intensive Cyberpunk 2077 session. I will also admit that an upward trend of the Goliath dimensions is the cooling capacity, whereby the GPU temperature only reaches 54 ° C under load. This is positive for modern graphics card standards. The high-tech dual-aaxial fan design of the RTX 5080 Founders Edition Cooler could only keep its lid at 65 ° C.

For £ 729 you can get the RTX 5070 Ti as another usable, albeit rarely exciting Nvidia GPU. However, as we have seen, the problem is that you have about as much chance to get this card for £ 729 as you do to buy Alexandra Palace for a tenner. And if the actual prices are so close to the entry level of the RTX 5080 – which has a start -up edition with all its own share shortage that is at least sold Theoretically For under a grand – then it is fair to ask questions. Questions like “Why should I not just get the 5080?” And “How, Nvidia, did you forget what happened in 2020?”

While the RTX 5080 becomes harder at PSUS and does not offer much meaningful extra -oomp at 1440p, it is a general future proofed with a pronounced 4K advantage that can be enjoyed today. With saner prices, the RTX 5070 Ti would still be more a crowdpleaser, but there are clearly some kinks that have to work before it is seriously worth it.

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This review is based on a retail unit provided by the manufacturer.