Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: 4080 territory, or more with an overclock

With our testing complete, the RTX 5070 Ti does enough to earn a recommendation. In short, you're getting a 16 percent improvement over the RTX 4070 Ti for $50 less - in theory - or a more measly seven percent advantage over the 4070 Ti Super. Add on frame generation and a few other niceties like DisplayPort 2.1, and the value proposition has at least improved over the last-gen card... though it's clear that the revised design and GDDR7 don't account for anywhere near the sort of gen-on-gen boost you get from a more substantial change, such as a shift to a new process process node.

In terms of our table of overall performance from 17 games tested, it's no surprise to see the 5090, 4090 and 5080 at the top across all resolutions. There's not much to divide the 4080 Super, 4080 and 5070 Ti too, with the outgoing 4070 Ti Super being no slouch either. It's interesting to note that even at 1080p, the close grouping of products around the 5070 Ti remains in place - it's only really the 4090 and 5090 that lose ground.

If we assume that MSRP still means something, the next two tables show how the dollar per frame metrics pan out at 4K and 1440p. This shows how value has scaled over time based on how each of these cards performs now compared to their original asking prices - obviously 7900 XT in particular underwent a series of highly welcome price-cuts, but here we are. 5070 Ti leads in both 4K and 1440p testing, meaning the RTX 3080 has finally been overhauled, though it's still pretty much the best value champion of the modern era.

In common with RTX 5080, we're looking at another upwards bump in pure performance terms, though this time the gap between the new card and its older counterpart is much tighter, so who would I recommend this product to? Well, depending on resolution, you're looking at anything from a 31 to 33 percent general uplift in performance against the classic RTX 3080. Combined with the extra memory and the features of DLSS 4, I'd consider that the kind of threshold that's worth an upgrade, especially as you'll be able to more easily migrate into the full RT path tracing experience on a number of games which will prove more challenging on 3080-class hardware.

In terms of recommendations, the same applies if you have any of the higher end RDNA 2 cards, like 6800 XT, for example. Similarly, if you're still on a Turing-class 20 series card, you'll see a gigantic improvement here from the likes of 2080, 2070 Super and even 2080 Ti.

The question is, of course, whether the value calculations we've made are actually applicable. Nvidia sent over a list of cards promised to be at MSRP in the US and UK - which we've duly reproduced on our "where to buy RTX 5070 Ti" page - but we won't know until launch day how accessible they'll be.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Analysis

• Introduction
• RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Cyberpunk 2077
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
• RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Game benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077
• Game benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
• Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• DLSS 4 and Path Tracing: Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2
• Conclusions, value and recommendations [This Page]