French retailer suggests Nvidia will launch the RTX 5070 Ti on February 20

The Asus RTX 5070 Ti Prime OC graphics card
(Image credit: Asus)

Nvidia's upcoming RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is scheduled for release later this month, indicates French retailer Top Achat (h/t VideoCard). According to an MSI RTX 5070 Ti product listing, the latest Nvidia mid-range GPU will be available for purchase starting February 20 at 3PM CET.

Notably, the launch date coincides with similar product listings spotted last month on the European retailer Proshop, further reinforcing the likelihood of a February 20 AIB product release.

(Image credit: Topachat)

The RTX 5070 Ti's launch follows the January 30 debut of Nvidia's higher-end RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 models. The RTX 5090 has been praised for its impressive 4K gaming performance. However, concerns have emerged regarding its high power consumption. Additionally, the first legitimate report of a melted power cable on the RTX 5090 recently surfaced on Reddit, raising safety concerns.

Meanwhile, the RTX 5080 has been recognized as a well-balanced high-end GPU, offering solid performance while maintaining reasonable power efficiency. While it presents a compelling upgrade for those with older GPUs, its performance gains over its predecessor models are considered modest. Both the new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 have a significant Achilles Heel, though - insufficient supplies at launch have led to a predictably grim cycle of rising prices, scalping, and bundling.

As a quick refresher, the RTX 5070 Ti is built on the GB203-300 graphics processor, featuring 8,960 CUDA cores, 280 texture mapping units, and 128 render output units. It comes equipped with 16GB of GDDR7 memory operating on a 256-bit bus, delivering a memory bandwidth of 896 GB/s. Designed with a total board power (TBP) of 300W, the RTX 5070 Ti will be available with either a single 16-pin PCIe Gen 5 power connector, but some AIBs might furnish dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

During the product launch in January, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed that the non-Ti version of the RTX 5070 would deliver the same performance as an RTX 4090. By that logic, the RTX 5070 Ti should be even faster, but reviews of the RTX 5090 and 5080 have completely taken the polish off such expectations.

The suggested MSRP for the RTX 5070 Ti, according to Nvidia, is $749—$50 less than its predecessors, the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super. However, since there is no Founder's Edition variant, customers will have to rely on board partners that are expected to apply their own premiums, potentially pushing prices between $800 to $1,000. Additionally, scalpers and resellers may drive up pricing even further, making availability a key concern at launch.

Kunal Khullar
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Kunal Khullar is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware.  He is a long time technology journalist and reviewer specializing in PC components and peripherals, and welcomes any and every question around building a PC.

  • VizzieTheViz
    So another paper launch of a product that’s hardly any better than the product it’s replacing. Can’t wait!
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  • acadia11
    How about they actually launch 5090 and 5080 and we talk after.
    Reply
  • hannibal
    acadia11 said:
    How about they actually launch 5090 and 5080 and we talk after.

    As soon as all orders for lucrative AI GPUs are full filled... 2027?
    ;)
    Reply
  • throughfire
    acadia11 said:
    How about they actually launch 5090 and 5080 and we talk after.
    I don't know, personally I hardly care too much about the 5090 and 5080 launch. Too expensive for me (and most of my clients). I'm way more interested in the 5070 Ti and below. Wish they would just launch the whole series together.
    Reply
  • acadia11
    hannibal said:
    As soon as all orders for lucrative AI GPUs are full filled... 2027?
    ;)
    I see you are an extreme optimist! That soon!
    Reply
  • DS426
    Sadly, they need to be launched as we're running out of Radeon 7900's and 7800's.
    LOL.
    Reply
  • Shiznizzle
    This is great. Nvidia dont even have enough chips to make 5090's but are now pushing the "consumer grade" GPU's that rely, in part, on failed flagship chips?

    Not all lower class GPU chips are pristine fully functioning chips. They can also be chips with failed modules from a higher tier with enough capability turned off to meet the conditions of the lower GPU's. Chips are binned for that reason.....you are a 5090, you suck and are missing half the working cuda cores but meet the specs to be a 5060,.....you are good enough for a 5080....

    But they dont even have failed 5090's or we would be seeing the lower GPU's.

    %99.9 this will be another marketing exercise/paper launch.

    Nvida is going to lose market share if AMD can pull off a good launch with product to buy this time, that is good value/price/performance.
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