The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti marks the third entry for the Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs, which Nvidia officially unveiled at CES 2025 in early January. It takes over from both the original RTX 4070 Ti as well as the newer RTX 4070 Ti Super, with the latter having replaced the 4070 Ti last January. The 5070 Ti looks better against the 4070 Ti, while it's more of an incremental upgrade from the 4070 Ti Super. The good news is that its MSRP is also $50 cheaper than the launch prices on the 4070 Ti / Super cards, coming in at $749. Faster, cheaper, and new features is a great way to make it onto our list of the best graphics cards — assuming there's sufficient supply, which remains to be seen.
RTX 5070 Ti offers a decent step up from the original 4070 Ti, but compared to the 4070 Ti Super, it looks extremely similar. They both have the same number of transistors and die size, using the same TSMC 4N process node. The transistor counts aren't necessarily 100% accurate, as they're more of a rough estimate, but it does suggest that the architectural changes may not be that significant. It's also possible some things were dropped or simplified to make room for new features. What those things might be is more difficult to pin down.
Getting back to the specs, total compute performance looks basically the same as the 4070 Ti Super: 44 TFLOPS FP32 and 352–353 TFLOPS FP16 on the tensor cores. Clock speeds are also lower, on paper, with the 5070 Ti. As usual, however, Nvidia's stated boost clocks are quite conservative estimates, and most of the games we tested ran at much higher speeds.
Memory speed and bandwidth are both quite a bit higher with the 5070 Ti. It's 33% faster than the 4070 Ti Super in speed and bandwidth and 78% higher in bandwidth compared to the 4070 Ti, thanks to having a 33% wider interface. And, of course, it also offers 33% more VRAM capacity than the 4070 Ti.
No need to camp out. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti launches on Feb. 20, but Best Buy tells PCMag it’ll only be selling the products online — not in stores.
Interested customers can expect Best Buy and Newegg to start offering the graphics card as early as 6 a.m. PST on Thursday, according to an earlier post from Nvidia.
But in some bad news, it looks like the starting price for the RTX 5070 Ti has increased by over $100 when it was supposed to start at $749. Best Buy’s own site currently lists 10 different models, and all range in price from $869 to as high as $999.
Only Micro Center and Newegg are listing an RTX 5070 Ti model from Asus for $749. Nvidia is also refraining from releasing a Founders Edition RTX 5070 Ti, which always sells at the starting price.
The high costs might be due to Trump's 10% tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods. Still, the lack of any RTX 5070 Ti units at $749 is already causing many reviewers to slam the GPU as too pricey, especially since the more powerful RTX 5080 starts at $999.
The only problem is that both the RTX 5080 and 5090 have been selling out instantly, including at Best Buy, which has been offering the GPUs through online-only sales. There’s no word on when Best Buy will start selling the products at physical stores. But Micro Center locations will carry the RTX 5070 ti in stores on launch day.
Written by Icey Ye from AIChipLink.
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