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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: Content Creation, Professional Apps, and AI
Modern GPUs like the RTX 5070 Ti aren't just about gaming. They're used for video encoding and professional applications, and increasingly, they're being used for AI. We've revamped our professional and AI test suite to give a more detailed look at the various GPUs. We'll start with the AI benchmarks, as those tend to be more important for a wider range of users.
Procyon has multiple AI tests, and we've run the AI Vision benchmark along with two different Stable Diffusion image generation tests. The tests have several variants available that are all determined to be roughly equivalent (in output) by UL: OpenVINO (Intel), TensorRT (Nvidia), and DirectML (for everything, but mostly AMD). There are also options for FP32, FP16, and INT8 data types, which can give different results. We tested the available options and used the best result for each GPU.
Unfortunately, Procyon needs to be updated to work on the RTX 50-series GPUs, so we'll skip commenting on these tests for now. The 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 all fail to run any of the TensorRT workloads we've tried. Nvidia is aware of the problem, but we're not sure how long it will take for a fix to become available.
ML Commons' MLPerf Client 0.5 test suite does AI text generation in response to a variety of inputs. There are four different tests, all using the LLaMa 2 7B model, and the benchmark measures the time to first token (how fast a response starts appearing) and the tokens per second after the first token. These are combined using a geometric mean for the overall scores, which we report here.
While AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all ML Commons partners and were involved with creating and validating the benchmark, it doesn't seem to be quite as vendor-agnostic as we would like. AMD and Nvidia GPUs only have a DirectML execution path, while Intel has both DirectML and OpenVINO as options. Intel's Arc GPUs score quite a bit higher with OpenVINO than with DirectML.
The RTX 5070 Ti delivers a good result here, beating the previous generation RTX 4080 Super as well as the 4070 Ti Super and 4070 Ti. It's 17% faster than the 4070 Ti Super, and 45% faster than the 4070 Ti. MLPerf doesn't use FP4 for these tests, so the additional memory bandwidth from the GDDR7 likely helps performance quite a bit.
AMD's 7900 XTX takes longer on the time to first token, but after that delay it does reasonably well; the 5070 Ti ends up being 15% faster, however.
We'll have some additional SPECworkstation 4.0 results below, but there's an AI inference test composed of ResNet50 and SuperResolution workloads that runs on GPUs (and potentially NPUs, though we haven't tested that). We calculate the geometric mean of the four results given in inferences per second, which isn't an official SPEC score but it's more useful for our purposes.
The RTX 5070 Ti again edges past the RTX 4080 Super in this test, and it leads the 4070 Ti Super by 18% and the 4070 Ti by 30%. That's on the higher end of the performance leads we saw in our gaming benchmarks. It's also 30% faster than the 7900 XTX.
For our professional application tests, we'll start with Blender Benchmark 4.3.0, which has support for Nvidia Optix, Intel OneAPI, and AMD HIP libraries. Those aren't necessarily equivalent in terms of the level of optimizations, but each represents the fastest way to run Blender on a particular GPU at present.
The RTX 5070 Ti only offers modest improvements over the previous generation. It's 8% faster than the 4070 Ti Super and 23% faster than the vanilla 4070 Ti. AMD's 7900 XTX falls quite a bit behind here, with the 5070 Ti delivering 84% higher performance in Blender.
SPECworkstation 4.0 has two other test suites that are of interest in terms of GPU performance. The first is the video transcoding test using HandBrake, a measure of the video engines on the different GPUs and something that can be useful for content creation work. We use the average of the 4K to 4K and 4K to 1080p scores. Note that this only evaluates speed of encoding, not image fidelity.
The RTX 5070 Ti has the same video encoding block as the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, so performance should be the same. And it is. Minor differences in clock speeds as well as run to run variations can account for the ~1% difference between the Blackwell GPUs. There's a minor improvement in performance compared to the 40-series cards as well, while AMD's 7900 XTX delivers the highest speed. However, our previous GPU encoding testing also showed that AMD had lower image fidelity.
Our final professional app tests consist of SPECworkstation 4.0's viewport graphics suite. This is basically the same tests as SPECviewperf 2020, only updated to the latest versions. (Also, Siemen's NX isn't part of the suite.) There are seven individual application tests, and we've combined the scores from each into an unofficial overall score using a geometric mean.
The RTX 5070 Ti falls behind everything except the RTX 4070 Ti models this time. Curiously, the 4070 Ti even manages to beat the 4070 Ti Super, which shouldn't normally occur. AMD's drivers for its consumer cards tend to be more friendly toward these professional applications, which is why the 7900 XTX claims top honors.
These AI and professional tests are ultimately just one aspect of GPU performance, and if you only care about gaming they shouldn't exert much influence on your choice of GPU. That's especially true of the professional tests. AI could become something useful even for gaming, maybe, but higher Blender performance will only matter if you're actually using Blender for 3D modeling.
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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. -
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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. -
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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 $50 cheaper.
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YSCCC LMAO, a proper high end GPU and struggles to find points to be listed in the Pros:Reply
Pros+
Good balance of performance and price - Price... seriously? we all know that nobody will be getting it near MSRP, maybe as bad as Ampere where MSRP didn't exist till release of Ada +
16GB VRAM and 256-bit interface - Which will be not enough for most titles really soon above 1440p+
Latest Nvidia architecture and features - Which bring... MFG? and....?
At this point of time I think the now cheaper 7900XTX with 24 GB of Vram, the old 4080 super and the 7900XT 20GB will be the real proper high end card... at least if we don't turn on the RT we can be gaming without FG for a year or so longer -
JayGau All the tech channels on YouTube are saying that this card will not be sold at 750$. 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