Can the 5070 Ti offer a big upgrade over the 4070 Ti?

The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is the next big graphics card launch for this new-generation of Blackwell GPUs. But despite early hyperbolic claims from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the new 50-series cards, disappointing results from the RTX 5080 suggest the 5070 Ti could fall well behind expectations.

The review embargo for these new cards doesn’t drop until late-February, so we won’t know for sure how these cards match up until then. But in the meantime, we can look at Nvidia’s own graphs and specifications to get an idea of just how powerful the new RTX 5070 Ti will be, and how it will compare to its last-generation counterpart.

Pricing and availability

The RTX 5070 Ti is slated to go on sale on February 20, with a suggested retail price of $750. If the launch stock numbers and pricing of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are anything to go by, though, the 5070 Ti price is likely to be far higher around launch, and stock levels may be very low.

The RTX 4070 Ti launched in January 2023 priced at $800. It was replaced by the RTX 4070 Ti Super in January 2024, which is marginally faster and was initially priced the same. However, after the launch of the RTX 50-series new stock of the 4070 Ti Super has all but disappeared, and its second-hand price at the time of writing, is close to $1,000.

Specs

The RTX 5070 Ti represents a modest upgrade over the 4070 Ti in raw specifications. It has just under 17% more CUDA cores, RT cores, and tensor cores, which should improve general performance in ray traced and rasterized games, with some additional oomph when enabling DLSS. There’s more and faster memory, too, although in 2025, 16GB for an enthusiast-grade graphics card increasingly feels like a limitation.

The higher overall memory bandwidth is encouraging, though, even if it all comes at the light cost of an additional 15W of power — somewhat showcasing Blackwell’s efficiency.

Performance

Until we test the new 5070 Ti ourselves and the review embargo is lifted, we can’t say for sure just how well the new card will perform compared to its predecessor, or its slightly-faster Super successor. The RTX 5080 was only marginally faster than the 4080 Super, though, so we aren’t expecting huge jumps in performance when the new multi-frame generation feature is enabled.

For now, all we have to go on are Nvidia’s performance claims of how the 5070 Ti will do. As you might expect, there are some monstrous claims about its capabilities — over two times performance in Black Myth: Wukong! However, that’s when using DLSS 4 in performanc mode, with multi frame generation enabled.

For a more realistic idea of what the raw power of the card actually is, look to the left of the above graph. In Far Cry 6, with no DLSS applied, we see maybe a 30% improvement. And that’s with ray tracing enabled, which we know the new card will have a specific additional advantage of, thanks to its newer RT cores.

Wait and see… for the RX 9070

The RTX 5070 Ti isn’t here yet and we just don’t know how good it will be, yet. However, if the RTX 50-series cards we’ve tested so far are any indication, and Nvidia’s own numbers are anything to go by, the performance uplift for the 5070 Ti is unlikely to be large. Indeed, over the 4070 Ti Super, it may be negligible. The addition of DLSS 4 and multi frame generation is great, but it’s not going to make it worth upgrading from the 40-series.

The pricing and stock is strong, then the 5070 Ti is likely to be a decent card to buy if you’re running an older 20-series or 30-series GPU and want better 1440p ray tracing performance, but for anyone else, it’s probably best to wait and see. Not just what the RTX 5070 Ti can do, but what the AMD RX 9070 and 9070 XT can offer in competition when they debut in March. It’s not so long to wait.