Introduction

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC is a premium custom design graphics card based on NVIDIA’s latest performance-segment graphics card. For the RTX 5070 Ti, the TUF Gaming line of graphics cards are positioned between the company’s SFF-Ready Prime series, and the high-end ROG Strix series. In its latest generation, the ASUS TUF Gaming carries forward its rustic industrial product styling from its past two generations. The Vented Exoskeleton is built on the idea of exposing as much of the heatsink underneath outside as possible, with the cooler shroud providing structural support. The cooler also debuts innovations such as the company’s latest Axial-Tech fans that it shares between the TUF Gaming and ROG Strix cards (albeit with slightly different impeller shape), a new phase-change thermal pad for the GPU, a moisture-resistant PCB surface treatment, and dual-BIOS.

The new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is located in a gray area between the performance and enthusiast segments. The RTX 5080 from last month was squarely enthusiast, the RTX 5070 Ti is a slightly different equation—the GPU isn’t explicitly marketed for 4K Ultra HD gaming, instead putting it in the rather broad 1440p segment that has GPUs priced $400 and above. With a starting price of $750, the RTX 5070 Ti is expected to be a lot more than a 1440p-class GPU. The RTX 5070 Ti should provide plenty of performance for 4K Ultra HD at native resolution, if you know your way around game settings, or can use features such as DLSS.

The new Blackwell graphics architecture debuts a revolutionary new technology called Neural Rendering. It brings the awesome power of generative AI directly into the graphics rendering stack, combining objects created by a generative AI model with conventional raster 3D graphics. This is possible because the GPU is able to accelerate AI models in tandem with rendering graphics, thanks to a hardware scheduling component call the AI Management Processor (AMP). NVIDIA hasn’t refreshed the foundry node on which these GPUs are built, they use the exact same NVIDIA 4N foundry node as the previous RTX 40-series, and so all performance-per-Watt improvements you see are purely a function of the architecture and the new power management technologies being introduced with it.

The new Blackwell streaming multiprocessor (SM) comes with concurrent FP32 and INT32 math capability across all its CUDA cores—on the older Ada SM, only half the cores had INT32 capability. The new shader execution reordering engine is aware of neural shaders and neural objects. The 5th Gen Tensor core comes with FP4 data format support, to increase throughput by trading in precision. The 4th generation RT core comes with even more fixed-function hardware, this time enabling Mega Geometry—a technique to increase the triangle count of ray traced objects by incorporating hierarchical techniques similar to Mega Textures.

DLSS 4 being introduced with Blackwell introduces new Transformer-based AI models replacing the convoluted neural networks (CNNs) of older generations of DLSS. These models handle super resolution (upscaling), ray-reconstruction, and frame generation. With DLSS 4, NVIDIA is introducing Multi Frame Generation (MFG), a technology with which the GPU generates up to three frames following a conventionally rendered one, effectively quadrupling framerates. It’s exclusive to Blackwell because of the new hardware flip-metering component that’s part of the Display Engine.

The RTX 5070 Ti is carved out from the same GB203 silicon powering the RTX 5080, but with 70 out of the 84 SM present on the silicon being enabled, besides 48 MB out of the 64 MB L2 cache present. This works out to 8,960 CUDA cores, 280 Tensor cores, 70 RT cores, 280 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The memory sub-system is a massive upgrade over the older RTX 4070 Ti. The memory size has been increased to 16 GB, up from 12 GB; the memory bus to 256-bit wide, from 192-bit; and the memory speed is 28 Gbps over the 21 Gbps of the RTX 4070 Ti, resulting in 896 GB/s of memory bandwidth, or a whopping 77% increase in bandwidth. The GPU needs this to run its memory-sensitive AI models.

With its default P-mode (Performance BIOS), the ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC runs the GPU at 2588 MHz boost, compared to 2452 MHz reference. There is a software-based OC mode that can drive this further up to 2610 MHz boost. ASUS is pricing the card at $1,000, a massive 33% premium over the $750 NVIDIA baseline.