Conclusion
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (PRIME-RTX5070TI-16G) is a brand new video card from ASUS in their PRIME series of graphics cards with an MSRP of $749. The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti heralds the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Blackwell-powered GPU in the GeForce RTX 50 Series lineup announced at CES 2025. Recently, the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 was launched at an MSRP of $1,999, and the GeForce RTX 5080 was launched at an MSRP of $999.
The new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti brings Blackwell performance and features down to the $749 price point for MSRP models such as the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti features DLSS 4 features and 16GB of GDDR7. The new ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is ASUS’s mainstream consumer graphics line, with a minimalistic design, no RGB, and custom cooling. ASUS offers both a stock reference clocked version (Reviewed: PRIME-RTX5070TI-16G) and will also offer an OC model with a factory overclock. ASUS will also offer a TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti also in a stock reference clock and OC model.
Performance
In our review today we put the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti up against its brethren from the previous generation, notably the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. These two video cards operate at the stock reference clocks for a 4070 Ti SUPER and 4070 Ti, but since they are custom cards with custom cooling and power they do run at a fairly high out-of-box real-world in-game GPU frequency boost. We also had the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT in for comparison as well.
Though the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti was discontinued in place of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti at a lower price point of $749, it was important to include it since it did exist. There might be many gamers who purchased one and want to know what the uplift is with the new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in comparison. We feel though, that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the natural predecessor most people will be interested in, as it is what the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should have been all along from the beginning, and they were priced the same at $749, therefore the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is the true successor to that one.
Then to the performance you all really want to know, how much faster is the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti over the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER? Well, it depends on the game really, because there were some alright results, and then there were some not-so-good ones. I guess generally we can say we saw between an 11-13% performance improvement upon the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER? But you really need to dig down more granular, because there were some lower and some higher.
In raster performance: Alan Wake 2 11%, Black Myth Wukong 13%, Cyberpunk 2077 9%, Dying Light 2 16%, F1 24 3%, Horizon Forbidden West 7%, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 6%, Kingdom Come Deliverance II 13%, Stalker 2 7%, Star Wars Outlaws 6%.
If we take an average of those percentages, then in raster the average uplift of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is 9%. The highest peak was 16%, the lowest valley was 3%.
In Ray Tracing performance: Alan Wake 2 13%, Black Myth Wukong 14%, Cyberpunk 2077 11%, Dying Light 2 15%, F1 24 5%, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 13%, Star Wars Outlaws 4%.
If we take an average of those percentages, then in Ray Tracing the average uplift of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is 11%. The highest peak was 15%, the lowest valley was 4%.
It does seem that Ray Tracing performance is providing a higher advantage compared to raster, indicating stronger Ray Tracing performance on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti does perform faster than the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in games but won’t blow your socks off, though it is more significant compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti by comparison. Some games will be more exciting in performance, some not as much. We do feel 16GB of VRAM, at least, is appropriate at the $749 price point, thank goodness for that.
Overclocking
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti supports ASUS’s GPU Tweak III software program. This program worked great for us and properly supported the video card allowing a very large Power Target increase of 16%. It also allowed us to increase Voltage, GPU Boost, and Memory with Enhanced Ranges. It also has hardware monitoring and fan speed control and fan curve support.
With the high Power Target increase, we found the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti to be an incredible overclocker, allowing for a very high overclock without needing to increase voltage. This brought the overclock up to 3.2GHz-3.3GHz from the already excellent stock boost clock on the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti boosts very high out-of-the-box to begin with, though it is clocked at 2452MHz thanks to GPU Boost our card boosted up to 2820MHz on its own, averaging 2813MHz while gaming. This was a great start, and with some simple tweaking, we managed 3.2GHz easily. The memory side of things also overclocked very well, boosting from 28Gbps up to 32Gbps increasing the memory bandwidth to 1TB/s.
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti remained very cool with this overclock as well. We did set an 80% fan speed, but realistically we could have gotten away with a lower 70% fan speed for overclocking. We noted that automatically the fans hit 60% on their own, without overclocking, so they do run above 50% while gaming. Increasing them to 70% won’t be too loud, but at 80% or above you will notice the noise, though it won’t be annoying, they aren’t super loud.
We noticed a direct performance-to-power improvement from overclocking, meaning we got about a 9% performance increase from overclocking and about the same power increase. At 9% more performance, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti was more competitive with the uplift over the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER.
Final Points
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is a well-built video card from ASUS. We like the minimalistic design of the PRIME series, it is both classy and sleek and just gets the job done in terms of design. It doesn’t have RGB or LED lighting, and it doesn’t need it. With the blacked-out shroud and lettering, and sleek curves it offers an appealing design that will match well in any case design or color scheme.
The video card is built well and very solid. With a full backplate for protection, the card is rigid and also cooled very well. The video card features a design that cools the front and back, and the three fans do a great job at cooling very quietly, even at higher fan speed operation. The size of the video card is also appealing and should allow it to fit into smaller cases with ease.
We found that it cooled the GPU and memory well. We even found that it can overclock very well, though there is a TUF Gaming series, the PRIME can handle its own with overclocking. We were easily able to push the GPU clock up past 3.2GHz with it, and if we wanted the option we could increase the Voltage and the cooling seems able to take that on, though you will be running much higher fan speeds with Voltage pushed up. It is nice to have those options though, and it’s great to see that we can do this even with the PRIME card.
The important part is the MSRP, this is a $749 MSRP video card, and you really want to stay within this range with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. If this card is available in stock, and at $749, it can provide a decent upgrade from generations of the GeForce RTX 30 series, and down the generations. If you currently have a GeForce RTX 40 series, it would only be an upgrade from a lower tier such as the RTX 4060. If you are in the market for a new GPU at the $749 price point, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is a great option offering that just gives you that right balance of what you need out of a video card at this price range.