Power and Temp
Power
The TGP of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is 300W. According to our power testing, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC pulls 278.4W Board Power according to GPU-Z. This is a lower board power number than a previous custom partner video card we reviewed. The answer is simple, the Voltage on the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC appears to be lower, thus demanding less power and overall heat generation. We’ll show the GPU-Z screenshots below to show the default Voltage, but this means that overall the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC is very efficient in terms of power utilization.
At 278.4W the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC demands the least amount of power while gaming, 2% less than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 4% less than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. We know the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC performs much faster than those cards, so the fact that it pulls it off at a lower power usage, is great.
When we overclocked the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC the power increased to just 303.8W, again keeping it well constrained. The power increase was just 9%, and this tracks with the performance improvements we also experienced from the overclock, in fact, we had some higher performance improvements in fact around 10-11% with the overclock.
Temperature
Looking at the temperature, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC runs incredibly cool! We really cannot stress how cool this card runs, partly due to the lower Voltage at default, but also just the incredible cooling that MSI has integrated on this video card. At default, it reached the highest peak of just 57.3c, keeping it under 60c is amazing. What’s more amazing is that even when overclocked, that temp still stayed under 60c! This is also with the fans set to “auto”, we do not have a custom fan curve set or a custom speed, this is all on automatic fan speeds! I mean, this graph just really speaks for itself.
We also wanted to look at the memory temperature. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC wins again with the lowest memory temperatures, even overclocked.
GPU-Z and HWiNFO64 Screenshots
Take note that at default (left) the GPU Voltage is 1.0200V. This is lower than a previously reviewed RTX 5070 Ti which had a default GPU Voltage of 1.0550V. This shows that the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC is running at a lower Voltage by default, thus meaning it is not near its TDP, and has a lot of power headroom, and also runs cooler. When we overclocked it (right) the Voltage automatically increased max to 1.0250V slightly automatically. Depending on the game settings, we also saw the Voltage decrease further with the overclock, down to 1.0150V (very right).
We also saw the fan speeds run at just 40% at default, and then when overclocked and left to “auto” they rose maximum of up to 45%, keeping the sound profile very low. The bottom line is that even overclocked, the card is not maxing out the 116% TDP we have applied, there’s still power headroom on this video card, we are literally limited by the silicon lottery here.