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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti Test Setup
We've revamped our test suite and our test PC, wiping the slate clean and requiring new benchmarks for every graphics card we want to have in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. That will take time, and as with the 5090 and 5080 reviews, we don't have a ton of cards in this review. We've added the RX 7900 XT as well, but for now, we've got mostly Nvidia cards.
The Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs also bring some new technologies that require separate testing. Chief among these (for gamers) is the new DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation (MFG). That requires new benchmarking methods, and we want to spend some additional time with some DLSS 4-enabled games to get a better idea of how they look and feel. As with DLSS 3 frame generation, MFG isn't a magic bullet that makes everything faster and better. It adds latency, and the experience also depends on the GPU, game, settings, and monitor you're using.
MFG can potentially double the number of AI-generated frames (DLSS 4 can generate 1, 2, or 3 depending on the setting you select), smoothing out the appearance on your display. However, user input gets sampled only on the rendered frames, so MFG in 4X mode running at "160 FPS" would only be sampling the mouse and keyboard at 40 FPS. Our experience so far is that there's a minimum FPS that's needed for MFG to feel playable, and a higher level FPS where it starts to feel smooth and responsive.
Our GPU test PC has an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, the fastest current CPU for gaming purposes. (We also tested the RTX 5090 on our old 13900K test bed, so check the prior review for those results. Suffice it to say that, at 4K, things are much closer than at 1080p.) We also have 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory from G.Skill with AMD EXPO timing enabled (CL30) on an ASRock X670E Taichi motherboard.
We're running Windows 11 24H2, with the latest drivers at the time of testing. We used AMD's 24.12.1 drivers, Nvidia's preview 571.86 drivers for the RTX 5090, 4090, and 4080 Super, slightly newer 572.02 drivers for the RTX 5080, and 572.43 preview drivers for the 5070 Ti, 4070 Ti, and 4070 Ti Super. (We also retested a few things on the 5090/5080 using these drivers, like 3DMark's DXR feature test that was previously running poorly.)
At some point in the coming days, once the new GPU launches have calmed down a bit, we'll see about retesting all of the new 50-series GPUs with up-to-date drivers. We anticipate optimizations and tuning will help the 50-series quite a bit in the next couple of months.
Our PC is hooked up to an MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED display, which supports G-Sync and Adaptive-Sync, allowing us to properly experience the higher frame rates that GPUs like the 5080 and 5090 can deliver (especially with MFG). Most games won't get anywhere close to the 240Hz limit of the monitor at 4K when rendering at native resolution, which is where framegen and MFG can be useful.
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
ASRock Taichi X670E
G.Skill TridentZ5 Neo 2x16GB DDR5-6000 CL28
Crucial T700 4TB
Cooler Master ML280 Mirror
Corsair HX1500i
GRAPHICS CARDS
Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition
Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition
Asus RTX 5070 Ti Prime
Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition
Asus RTX 4070 Ti Super TUF Gaming
Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti Gaming
AMD RX 7900 XTX (MBA reference card)
AMD RX 7900 XT (MBA reference card)
The new GPU test suite consists of 22 games. We're still looking at some potential changes and additions, but this is where we're at for now. Six of the games in our standard test suite have RT support enabled. The remaining 16 games are run in pure rasterization mode. However, with cards like the RTX 5080 and 5090, we'll be looking at supplemental testing using some of the most demanding games that feature full RT / "path tracing" support. (That testing is still ongoing, but check page six.)
All 22 games are tested without any upscaling or frame generation as our baseline. Again, we plan to do additional investigations into things like DLSS 2/3/4 and framegen/MFG, but that's separate from the primary testing. There are noticeable differences between the image quality of DLSS, FSR, and XeSS, as well as differences in how much they can affect performance, which is why we're not using any of them for our baseline measurements.
All games are tested using 1080p 'medium' settings (the specifics vary by game and are noted in the chart headers), along with 1080p, 1440p, and 4K 'ultra' settings. This provides a good overview of performance in a variety of situations. Depending on the GPU, some of those settings don't make as much sense as others, but seeing how fast cards like the RTX 5080 run at 1080p can be enlightening. (As with our 5090 initial testing, 1080p performance seems to hit bottlenecks on the 5080 that are lower than what we see on the previous generation, likely due to driver immaturity for the new Blackwell architecture.)
Our OS has all the latest updates applied. We're also using Nvidia's PCAT v2 (Power Capture and Analysis Tool) hardware, which means we can grab real power use, GPU clocks, and more during our gaming benchmarks. We'll cover those results on page eight.
Finally, because GPUs aren't purely for gaming these days, we run some professional and AI application tests. We've previously tested Stable Diffusion, using various custom scripts, but to level the playing field and hopefully make things a bit more manageable (AI is a fast moving field!), we're turning to standardized benchmarks. We use Procyon and run the AI Vision test as well as the Stable Diffusion 1.5 and XL tests; MLPerf Client 0.5 preview for AI text generation; SPECworkstation 4.0 for Handbrake transcoding, AI inference, and professional applications; 3DMark DXR Feature Test to check raw hardware RT performance; and finally Blender Benchmark 4.3.0 for professional 3D rendering.
At present, Procyon does not work on the Blackwell GPUs due to an older and apparently outdated TensorRT framework.
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Jame5 Basing any performance/$ valuation on this card at MSRP is foolish. There is no FE to anchor it to MSRP. The cards released to the press are slated to be sold $150 above MSRP.Reply
So why even discuss the card as a decent value at $749 when it will cost 20% more than that at launch?
*Edit to correct for the fact that it was 20% over MSRP, so $150, not $200 above. -
JarredWaltonGPU
The further down the stack you go, the less likely pricing is to be completely bonkers. RTX 5090? Yeah, it was always going to sell like hotcakes. 5080 is the step down option so it's not too surprising to see it sell out. But the 5070 Ti? I suspect it will be reasonably available at $749.Jame5 said:Basing any performance/$ valuation on this card at MSRP is foolish. There is no FE to anchor it to MSRP. The cards released to the press are slated to be sold $200 above MSRP.
So why even discuss the card as a decent value at $749 when it will cost 20% more than that at launch?
Yes, there will be $799 to $899 variants, with more bling and a modest overclock. But you don't need to buy those to get a decent card. And we've added the caveat that it's only a good card if you can find it at MSRP.
The same thing basically happened with the 40-series. 4090 and 4080 were mostly sold above MSRP. But 4070 Ti and 4070 were pretty readily available at close to MSRP. The 4070 Ti Super supply is gone now, but it was pretty easy to acquire one at MSRP since it launched a year ago. -
DRagor the 5070 Ti can get away with 16GB by virtue of costing $749
Except it will not cost 749 so it makes no sense to say it. -
Jame5
You should go check out Microcenter.JarredWaltonGPU said:The further down the stack you go, the less likely pricing is to be completely bonkers. RTX 5090? Yeah, it was always going to sell like hotcakes. 5080 is the step down option so it's not too surprising to see it sell out. But the 5070 Ti? I suspect it will be reasonably available at $749.
Yes, there will be $799 to $899 variants, with more bling and a modest overclock. But you don't need to buy those to get a decent card. And we've added the caveat that it's only a good card if you can find it at MSRP.
The same thing basically happened with the 40-series. 4090 and 4080 were mostly sold above MSRP. But 4070 Ti and 4070 were pretty readily available at close to MSRP. The 4070 Ti Super supply is gone now, but it was pretty easy to acquire one at MSRP since it launched a year ago.
They just (this morning in time for the reviews) conveniently have a sale on the Asus card that was passed to reviewers. The list price is $899. They have magically slashed it for review day today back to MSRP at $749.
It is the ONLY listing available at MSRP.
*Edit: To be clear, before that all of the available options start at $899. Your high end guess is the floor for where people are starting their profit margins. -
ingtar33
there is only one. count them one. sku at 749. it's made by PNY. no one else has one at MSRP. so your whole 3 paragraphs of nvidia glazing is pointless. because there aren't any cards availible at 750JarredWaltonGPU said:The further down the stack you go, the less likely pricing is to be completely bonkers. RTX 5090? Yeah, it was always going to sell like hotcakes. 5080 is the step down option so it's not too surprising to see it sell out. But the 5070 Ti? I suspect it will be reasonably available at $749.
Yes, there will be $799 to $899 variants, with more bling and a modest overclock. But you don't need to buy those to get a decent card. And we've added the caveat that it's only a good card if you can find it at MSRP.
The same thing basically happened with the 40-series. 4090 and 4080 were mostly sold above MSRP. But 4070 Ti and 4070 were pretty readily available at close to MSRP. The 4070 Ti Super supply is gone now, but it was pretty easy to acquire one at MSRP since it launched a year ago. -
JarredWaltonGPU
We'll see what happens tomorrow AM. Early listing are always bunk. I would not buy or recommend the 5070 Ti as an $899 or higher card, at all. Even $799 is a reach, but for a blinged out model it would be okay.Jame5 said:You should go check out Microcenter.
They just (this morning in time for the reviews) conveniently have a sale on the Asus card that was passed to reviewers. The list price is $899. They have magically slashed it for review day today back to MSRP at $749.
It is the ONLY listing available at MSRP.
The graphics card companies and retail outlets are getting greedy at launch, but give it a couple of weeks and I wager we'll see plenty of $749~$799 5070 Ti cards on Newegg. -
Gururu Thank you for the review. It's expectedly pricey, and still great performance for $250 less than next tier. Still out of my league, nVidia definitely not throwing bones yet.Reply -
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50 reviews appeared online in the last houur or whatever. The only one that reccomends this card is the one with affiliate links. Amazingi how that works.Admin said:The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti replaces the prior-generation RTX 4070 Ti and the 4070 Ti Super in the high-end segment. It offers solid performance improvements over the former but only modest gains over the Super. Thankfully, it's also $50 cheaper.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: A proper high-end GPU : Read more -
YSCCC LMAO, a proper high end GPU and struggles to find points to be listed in the Pros:Reply
Pros+
Good balance of performance and price - Price... seriously? we all know that nobody will be getting it near MSRP, maybe as bad as Ampere where MSRP didn't exist till release of Ada +
16GB VRAM and 256-bit interface - Which will be not enough for most titles really soon above 1440p+
Latest Nvidia architecture and features - Which bring... MFG? and....?
At this point of time I think the now cheaper 7900XTX with 24 GB of Vram, the old 4080 super and the 7900XT 20GB will be the real proper high end card... at least if we don't turn on the RT we can be gaming without FG for a year or so longer -
JayGau All the tech channels on YouTube are saying that this card will not be sold at 750$. Jaytwocents even slightly broke the embargo on purpose to expose this craziness. There is not FE for this GPU and AIBs are cranking up tbe prices. Stocks will be awful like the other 5000 cards so they have no reasons to sell it at MSRP. The 5080 is now sold at $1300+ (even $1600), and the 5090 at 3000$. So thinking that the 5070 Ti will magically go to 750$ in two weeks is either naive or dishonest.Reply