Synthetic Benchmarks
As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. In this case, we took a look at the stock-clocked RTX 5070 Ti and today we get to see an overclocked card so I am curious how the overclock changes performance. So I will be focused a lot on how the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC compares to the Prime RTX 5070 Ti, that said we should still be keeping an eye on how it compares to the RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER, the 3070 Ti, and both the 7900 XTX and XT from AMD.
The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC is a hair ahead of the Prime 5070 Ti in the Fire Strike test but that flips in the Fire Strike Extreme test. Then for the Fire Strike Ultra the overclock helps more with a noticeable gap between the two on that test. Outside of that, both cards are out in front of the RTX 4080 SUPER here but below the 7900 XTX.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. For these tests the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC does edge out in front of the stock-clocked Prime but with both tests, the performance difference is .6-.8% so it isn’t a significant difference. That was almost enough to pass the RTX 4080 in the Time Spy Extreme test but here we do see both 5070 Ti’s behind both the RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Ti.
I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is one of their latest benchmarks and Port Royal as well. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until its release where only used in feature tests, not full benchmarks. The TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC is once again just a hair in front of the Prime with both tests giving the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC a .7% improvement. Both cards jump out ahead of the RTX 4080 SUPER here and by a good margin showing what I saw in our previous review once again. The 5070 Ti outperforms the 4080 SUPER in DX11 and in the ray tracing and DLSS-focused tests but comes in behind in the base DX12 tests.
The last test is the newer 3Dmark Steel Nomad benchmark. Officially this is the replacement for the Time Spy benchmark. It is a DX12 benchmark and doesn’t include ray tracing but is updated to better take advantage of modern cards. The overclock on the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC helps a lot more here with a 2.7% improvement over the Prime RTX 5070 Ti. That was enough to pass the 7900 XTX and the RTX 4080 but is still a little behind the RTX 4080 SUPER.
I also took a look at DLSS across all of the Nvidia cards using 3dMark’s DLSS benchmark. Everything was run at 4k on the performance setting and tested on each version of DLSS that the card supports. With all of the cards, this gives us a good look at the performance that can be possible with DLSS. With the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC without DLSS, the test averaged 42 FPS, turning on DLSS 1 took that up to 76 FPS and DLSS 2 up to 105. DLSS 3 with the addition of frame generation takes it up to 146 FPS and the latest DLSS 4 with frame generation set to x4 gets a staggering 258 FPS.
