NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 review: Basically a 4070 Ti that’s better at 4K

The $ 549 RTX 5070 excels at 1440p gaming, and it does a decent job at 4K.

With just 12 GB of RAM , it’s also not nearly as future-proof as the 5070 Ti.

The new card has a 33 percent memory bandwidth advantage, but it would have been nice to see more RAM .

The 5070 comes in $ 50 cheaper than the original launch price.

The RTX 5070 is best-suited to 1440p gaming, just like the 4070 .

But it's more capable if you don't mind the interpolated frames from DLSS 4's multi-frame generation.

Without DLSS, the 5070 crawled along at just 15 fps in 4 K without DLSS .

The 5070 lagged behind the RTX 4070 Ti in 3DMark 's TimeSpy Extreme and Speedway tests.

It's limited by having only 12 GB of VRAM , and without the magic of DLSS AI upscaling, its performance isn't that much different than the 4070 Ti. In the end, the 5070 feels a bit like a missed opportunity to deliver a truly performant card for close to $500 . Instead, it's more of the same, with a healthy dose of AI ..