Overall and Final Verdict
With all of the testing out of the way, we can finally step back and get an overall look at the Asus TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC. Getting to check out the Prime RTX 5070 Ti before this gives us a great comparison of how two out of the three Asus 5070 Ti designs. They have the Strix model as well and all three designs have stock-clocked and overclocked versions. The TUF Gaming design loses the blacked-out design that I liked with the Prime model but the styling does fit the TUF brand well and seems to be a great middle ground between the thinner SFF-ready Prime design and the full on “gamer” styling of the ROG Strix RTX 5070 Ti. You get a partial metal fan shroud and while it has neutral colors it is a departure from the other two designs. That said, this is a huge card and you will need to plan around that. It is longer and taller than the Prime but it’s the 3 and a half slot thickness that makes the card so big. The power connection is up on top and faces directly up, so keep that in mind as well. Beyond that the only other styling change that I would like to see would be a blacked-out PCI bracket, not only do they look better but they also better match most cases.
The large card size helped when it came to cooling performance, the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC outperformed the Prime 5070 Ti in all of our tests (which itself did well adding to the impressiveness). It also did very well in our noise tests and that was with Asus running an aggressive fan profile. For overall performance it had great 1440k performance, running right with the RTX 4080 SUPER in a lot of tests. The overclock did help in game but didn’t show up as much in some of our synthetic benchmarks. Overall that averaged 2-3 FPS across all three resolutions. Like with the other 50 Series cards, the biggest improvements can be found revolving around ray tracing and DLSS. The new DLSS 4 offers huge improvements both in frame rate and visually and that is where the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC shows itself the most. Of course that only helps if the games you want to play support it but they do have around 75 games.
At the end of the day, price is what makes a card good or not. To help with that I put together a graph comparing all of the cards tested with their MSRP and current pricing and figuring in 3Dmark Time Spy Extreme performance to give each a score. The TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC’s higher MSRP compared to the Prime pushes it down the chart but is more realistic to what we might see when cards come back in stock. Those MSRP-focused stock-clocked cards are always hard to come by. Sadly though because of the demand the pricing of the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC right now is even higher than that. Frankly, ALL cards are crazy right now but with the only TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC for sale in the $1335 range, it is way down in our chart here. I hope we start to see cards come back in stock and demand be reached so things will settle down, but there aren’t any indications right now that will happen. Overall, the TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC is a good card, Asus’s design, while big, performed well compared to even their own Prime 5070 Ti. So if you end up in the market for an RTX 5070 Ti in the future it would be a good option.
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