Overall and Final Verdict
With all of the testing out of the way, how did the RTX 5070 Ti perform and is the Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti a good option if you are looking for 5070 Ti? The Prime lineup in general is Asus’s mainstream performance line and is their lowest-end 3 fan card designs. With that, the Prime RTX 5070 Ti has a stock clock speed and is an MSRP card, designed to hit the MSRP that Nvidia set for the 5070 Ti. With that, you don’t get any fancy RGB lighting and it has a basic plastic fan shroud. They did however still slip in a nice aluminum backplate that runs the length of the card and some of the features put on all of their video cards like trying to give the GPU to PCB connection more strength with glue in all of the corners are still there. The Prime RTX 5070 Ti looks great for styling showing you don’t need any of the fancy features to look good. The simple fan shroud design has the Prime branding molded into it in a subtle way and other than a few white lines the card is mostly blacked out. I do wish however that the PCI bracket was blacked out to match. The only design issue I had with the card was with the power connection pointing directly up which can make it harder on the 12VHPWR connection, a lot of cases don’t have a lot of headroom above video cards. They did recess it down into the card, so it isn’t all bad at least. For the size of the card, I wouldn’t call it small but it is smaller than what a lot of cards will be for the RTX 5070 Ti. It is a 2-and-a-half slot thickness which helps with SFF computability.
For performance, the Prime RTX 5070 Ti trades blows with the RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER depending on the type of test. My averaged in game results had it out ahead just slightly. But as a whole DX 11 and Ray Tracing/DLSS results will have the Prime RTX 5070 Ti faster and in base DX12 tests it will fall behind the 4080. I would have liked to of seen this be at least consistently ahead of both of the RTX 4080 models. Overall that still does translate to being able to throw anything at it at 1440p and you can play at 4k in some situations. The Prime RTX 5070 Ti cooler was impressive in its noise tests, punching way above its weight class there. For cooling it did okay but Asus had an aggressive fan profile to do that, thankfully given the noise performance they could do that without it being too loud. Like with the other 50 Series cards, DLSS 4 performance was impressive and the changes Nvidia has made to DLSS have also improved the smoothness and picture when gaming with DLSS.
For pricing, as always pricing at launch is subject to change quickly. The launch MSRP of the RTX 5070 Ti and with the Prime RTX 5070 Ti tested is $749 so that is what I have to go by here. But we all know that cards at those price points are hard to come by and the more expensive overclocked cards will be what you will more often find assuming you can find them at all. We have just had tariffs that have changed GPU pricing across the board and with that I have updated our 3dMark Time Spy Extreme score per dollar chart that is above. At the MSRP the Prime RTX 5070 Ti is about as good as you can get right now for anything targeting 1440p or 4k gaming. I know a lot of people will be looking at how the RTX 5070 Ti compares with the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 SUPER and MSRP for MSRP the $749 MSRP is still much better than the $1199 for the original RTX 4080 and $999 of the RTX 4080 SUPER and frankly, both cards are even more expensive than that to get right now if you can find them at all. With that in mind, the Prime RTX 5070 Ti competing with those cards is an improvement at the $750 price point but depending on the price we see overclocked cards that can change quickly.
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