Nvidia confirms GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for February 20, beats 4080 Super in OpenCL benchmark

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Highly anticipated: Official announcements from Nvidia and AMD have set the stage for a mid-range GPU showdown in late February and early March. While technical specifications and release details for AMD's upcoming graphics cards are still forthcoming, Nvidia has fully revealed its plans for the RTX 5070 Ti and 5070. Expect TechSpot's review of the 5070 Ti once the review embargo lifts next week, on February 19.

Nvidia has confirmed that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20, followed by the RTX 5070 on March 5. Although the specs for both GPUs seem underwhelming, a recent Geekbench leak suggests the 5070 Ti may perform better than expected.

While Nvidia's latest flagship, the RTX 5090, can significantly outpace its predecessor, performance gains appear to diminish further down the product stack. Our review of the RTX 5080 found at best a 30% improvement over the 4080, and the 5070 Ti's performance boost over its predecessor may fall within the 10-20% range.

Nvidia's own benchmarks for the RTX 50 series primarily highlight multi-frame generation, a feature that interpolates frames to double, triple, or even quadruple perceived frame rates. We thoroughly tested DLSS 4 frame-gen recently, and while these "fake frames" often look convincing in motion, there's a slight latency cost that makes them impractical for multiplayer gaming. As a result, the feature is most useful for single-player titles on high-refresh-rate displays (240Hz or higher).

Despite skepticism surrounding the 5070 Ti's specs, its Geekbench debut offers some hope for potential buyers of the $749, 16GB GPU.

Its OpenCL score of 248,739 surpasses the 4080 Super's average of 247,099 and comes within 5% of the 5080's 259,152. However, readers should note that the 4080 Super and 5080 scores are based on at least five tests, while the 5070 Ti has only posted a single result as of this writing. Additional testing may reveal the initial result to be an optimistic outlier.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang infamously claimed that multi-frame generation can make the RTX 5070 feel like a 4090

Meanwhile, recent leaks suggest that the RTX 5070's March 5 release date was a last-minute delay in response to AMD's plan to launch its Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs in early March.

The standard RX 9070 may undercut the 5070's $549 starting price. Hopefully, Nvidia will use the extra time to build additional stock and avoid the supply issues that have so far plagued the RTX 5080 and 5090 launches.

Additionally, the mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 are rumored to debut in March at $419 and $329, respectively. While the 5060 Ti is expected to have both 8GB and 16GB variants, the 5060 will continue Nvidia's frustrating policy of limiting mainstream users to 8GB of VRAM.

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Nvidia confirms GeForce RTX 5070 Ti for February 20, beats 4080 Super in OpenCL benchmark

 
It's been a while since the last time I'm so hyped up about the mid range GPU war like this time. I'm simply eager to see how AMD will trade blows with NVIDIA this time, considering they have changed their strategy to release new GPUs. I believe that the market is kinda desperate for a new 5700xt
 
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This is a case of both "no one cares" and "they'll sell out in the first day". meanwhile, the rumor mill has it that businesses have been stocking 9070's up since December so that AMD has enough supply for release.

Frankly, I'm really excited for the 9070XT. I haven't done a build in awhile, I'm still on a 6700XT and while that's "fine" for my needs, it is starting to show it's age. And since I'm on Linux, nVidia is out until they get their driver situation together. I start back to work in about a month and expect to get laid off again around the end of December so I'm not really worried about price and availability until then.
 
Nvidia won't make the 5070 TI 5% slower than the 5080. Even -10% seems optimistic.

Prelaunch, I predicted 20% differences between the 50 cards (excluding 5090) but the 5080 improvement was so small that either the 5070 TI will have an equally small improvement or they will squeeze that difference to closer to 15%.
 
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Folks say the 5070Ti - based on specs - is looking to be about as fast over the 4070Ti as the 5080 is over the 4080. A whole whooping 5-10% gain!

You go Nvidia! Way to rock it!

If that holds true, it means the 5070Ti is about as fast as the 4080.
If it holds true that the 9700XT is about as fast as the 4080 and is priced $150 under the 5070Ti then then 9700XT should sell well.
 
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ScottSoapbox said:
While I agree with you from a historical GPU prices point of view, I would add this counter point: the PS5 Pro is $700. Console prices and 70 series cards are often close. Now I suppose one could say the 70 cards are upper midrange, but a point worth mentioning.
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I will add one counter point to that, consoles are often sold at a loss because they make up their costs from games and services once they lock you into their ecosystem.

I think the main concern is that wages have stayed the same while prices have gone up. so for most people, $600 is still $600. They say inslfation is only up 20% since 2019 according to the fed, but realistically, inflation is closer to 50% since 2019 from the perspective of the consumer.

So we can scream inflation until we are blue in the face, but until the buying power of consumers go up, the prices are still rising relative to the amount of hours worked. If someone made $150/day, a $600 card costs 4 days work. It doesn't matter of that card would cost $450 5 years ago, the card costs 4 days work instead of 3.
 
Not enough VRAM and assuredly bad pricing.

Looks like the 5000 series is going to be a miss for me.
 
I'm realizing I'm no longer interested in the technical capabilities of products that are not actually for sale. Nvidia in particular has lost all credibility with me as far as having marketing communications that are at all matched up to products I can buy at those prices.

If I ever happen to see one available I'll figure out its price/performance at that time and that price.

 
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yRaz said:
I will add one counter point to that, consoles are often sold at a loss because they make up their costs from games and services once they lock you into their ecosystem.

I think the main concern is that wages have stayed the same while prices have gone up. so for most people, $600 is still $600. They say inslfation is only up 20% since 2019 according to the fed, but realistically, inflation is closer to 50% since 2019 from the perspective of the consumer.

So we can scream inflation until we are blue in the face, but until the buying power of consumers go up, the prices are still rising relative to the amount of hours worked. If someone made $150/day, a $600 card costs 4 days work. It doesn't matter of that card would cost $450 5 years ago, the card costs 4 days work instead of 3.
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Yeah the CPI is a lie that has been adjusted multiple times by the government over the years to show lower (hide higher) inflation in consumer products.

Consoles are sold at a loss but obviously include more than just the GPU. My point is that the price increased from the PS5 to the Pro which suggests the new hardware inside it costs more.

Hopefully, you make some amount more 5 years later. 3% raises would get you to $173/day so the card cost you 3.5 days instead of 3. But yes, inflation is killer for anyone making a normal salary. Hopefully, people realize soon the government's deficient spending is unsustainable without serious costs to the normal people because it can get a lot worse if we don't reign in the spending soon.
 
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Yeah the CPI is a lie that has been adjusted multiple times by the government over the years to show lower (hide higher) inflation in consumer products.

Consoles are sold at a loss but obviously include more than just the GPU. My point is that the price increased from the PS5 to the Pro which suggests the new hardware inside it costs more.

Hopefully, you make some amount more 5 years later. 3% raises would get you to $173/day so the card cost you 3.5 days instead of 3. But yes, inflation is killer for anyone making a normal salary. Hopefully, people realize soon the government's deficient spending is unsustainable without serious costs to the normal people because it can get a lot worse if we don't reign in the spending soon.
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Luckily for me 3% a year increase written into my salary so even if I don't get a raise, I still keep up with inflation. But we have such a hard time keeping people I end up getting closer to 6% a year and a yearly bonus to stay. And the fact that I get 3 months of PTO every year doesny hurt. But even with all that, the price of GPUs is stupid. I've picked up mill, machining and CNC as a hobby and that's far more expensive than anything PC related so I'm starting to wonder if me being stubborn on GPU prices is silly or not. I have probably spent more in the last year on tooling and equipment than I have on PC components in my 30 years as an enthusiast
 
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Cool, so RTX 6070 will be 1000 bucks and they will still call it mid tier class... woohoo.

Prices sure love to go up for these so called mid tier cards. Same for the budget options. You can imagine how much a 6060ti will be if a 6070 cost 1k. I mean 4070 almost costs that much, especially if you pick Asus. Most models hover around 700-750. I got 0 hopes about 5070 being the same price with the current scalping BS.
 
Neatfeatguy said:
Folks say the 5070Ti - based on specs - is looking to be about as fast over the 4070Ti as the 5080 is over the 4080. A whole whooping 5-10% gain!

You go Nvidia! Way to rock it!

If that holds true, it means the 5070Ti is about as fast as the 4080.
If it holds true that the 9700XT is about as fast as the 4080 and is priced $150 under the 5070Ti then then 9700XT should sell well.
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that's a lot of IFs there buddy
 
yRaz said:
Luckily for me 3% a year increase written into my salary so even if I don't get a raise, I still keep up with inflation. But we have such a hard time keeping people I end up getting closer to 6% a year and a yearly bonus to stay. And the fact that I get 3 months of PTO every year doesny hurt. But even with all that, the price of GPUs is stupid. I've picked up mill, machining and CNC as a hobby and that's far more expensive than anything PC related so I'm starting to wonder if me being stubborn on GPU prices is silly or not. I have probably spent more in the last year on tooling and equipment than I have on PC components in my 30 years as an enthusiast
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Yeah, as pointed out on a recent HUB podcast, gamers farther on in their careers is one potential source of customers for costlier GPUs.

I can easily spend XX90 money on weekend racing motorcycles. And motorcycle racing is cheap compared to some of the car racing money I've seen at the track. So it all depends on your hobby on what is a "reasonable" expense.

But I'm with you on the "stubbornness" of paying too much for a GPU. I think for me it's because I've got such a steam backlog that I'm often playing games at least a few years after launch (or even remakes of games I never got to in my backlog before they remade them LOL). It's like do I really want to spend a grand for 2 new games when I have -checks steam- 765 other games (yes I have a bit of problem saying no to games on major sales).
 
ScottSoapbox said:
Yeah, as pointed out on a recent HUB podcast, gamers farther on in their careers is one potential source of customers for costlier GPUs.

I can easily spend XX90 money on weekend racing motorcycles. And motorcycle racing is cheap compared to some of the car racing money I've seen at the track. So it all depends on your hobby on what is a "reasonable" expense.

But I'm with you on the "stubbornness" of paying too much for a GPU. I think for me it's because I've got such a steam backlog that I'm often playing games at least a few years after launch (or even remakes of games I never got to in my backlog before they remade them LOL). It's like do I really want to spend a grand for 2 new games when I have -checks steam- 765 other games (yes I have a bit of problem saying no to games on major sales).
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I've been thinking about exactly this since I wrote it and I think what it really comes down to for me is that the manipulation for product pricing is so clear now that I have no desire to participate in it. It's interesting you brought up cars because I look at replacing my 1080ti a 6700xt when it died an early death and not really having any desire to upgrade from my 6700xt. A "drive it until it's dead" mentality and only upgrading when I "have" to. For the majority of the games I play, older titles, the 6700xt has no problem doing 4k with 90-120FPS. EvE online is the game I play the most and my FPS drops are CPU related, not GPU.

But if there was a problem with my car, I wouldn't care about a dented side panels, oh my headlights are getting foggy, so what? The GPUs coming out these days are built so poorly, offer so little and are trying to be sold on features that no one really asked or wants that it's fairly easy to say "no".

Like wanted a base model work truck that I know is going to get dirty and beat up. Go to a dealship and they try to sell me a $60,000 work truck with $50-60,000 worth of options. I get it that they make more money on the options, but I'm just at those prices I'm just going to run my truck into the ground and buy a used one for 1/3rd the cost of new and run that one into the ground, too.

It's like they've become disconnected as to why people are making these purchases. Gaming used to be a relatively cheap hobby. You have $500, great, you'll be playing games at 1080P medium/high no problem. And that wasn't that long ago, that was just 6-7 years ago. We're at a point now where you can't even get a "low end" GPU that'll play 1080P native for $500. Companies aren't even trying to hide it anymore, the 5070 is giving you a 4090 level of performance ofr $550(if they will even sell for that). Then AMD saw how bad the 50 series was relative to 40 series and they're probably looking at it thinking they can sell a 9070XT for $800+ now. Us all hoping that AMD was going to come in and give us a $500-600 GPU, that's not going to happen now. I honestly think market rate(Not MSRP) for the 9070XT is going to 850-900 and we'll be lucky if the 9070 is under 750. Frankly, I think the tariffs will be used as an excuse for partners to sneak in an extra 2-5% margin on their cards and blame the cost on tariffs.

But atleast for me, my newest hobby, as expensive as it may be, has the potential to make money. So while everyone sits their arguing about AMD VS nVidia and who's better, I will be peacefully out in my garage making cool stuff on my Lathe and Mill. Until I break a tap, then my garage will sound like I'm talking on comms in an xbox 360 CoD match.
 
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Despite what you read from the tech community this card will probably sell quite well at the high pricing Nvidia slap on it and it will be a success for Nvidia which means they have no reason to change any prices. If anything I think its likely that Nvidia will raise them even further.

Im so tired of it. Can we just accept that these things cost a lot of money and enjoy them for what they are - powerful GPUs. This thing will run all your games at great frame rates. It will give you AI powered upscaling and even real time ray tracing of light thats actually useable for consumers. Its ****ing awesome. Yet all I constantly hear is bitching. The prices are never coming down so why waste time and effort complaining?
 
Fantastic! The 5 cards available for the launch at MSRP worldwide will sell in a few nanoseconds. A new record!!!
What a sad joke this is, Nvidia stopped making the 4000 series cards last year arguing they need the lines to produce enough stock for the new series launch…
Yea, right.
 
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