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.
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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.
