GeForce RTX 5070
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($549) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Folks love the huge leap in ray tracing quality and how well DLSS 4 cleans up rough frames. The main gripes are the price hike and that 12GB VRAM feels tight for future games.
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Runs cool under heavy loads
- Handles ray tracing with ease
- Upgrade path for smooth 1440p
- VRAM could be tight for 4K
- No major generational performance leap
- Still uses a 12VHPWR connector
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- Architecture
- Blackwell 2.0
- Process node
- 5 nm
- Transistors
- 31.1 B
- SM Count
- 48
- Release date
- 2025
- Launch price
- $549
- CUDA Cores
- 6,144
- RT Cores
- 48
- Tensor Cores
- 192
- TMUs
- 192
- ROPs
- 80
- L2 cache
- 48 MB
- Size
- 12 GB
- Type
- GDDR7
- Bus width
- 192-bit
- Bandwidth
- 672 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
- Base clock
- 2325 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2512 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 30.87 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 30.87 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 201 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 482.3 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 250W
- Suggested PSU
- 500W
- Power connectors
- 1x 16-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 5.0 x16
- Length
- 245 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Vulkan
- 1.4
- CUDA
- 12.0
Our verdict on the RTX 5070
The RTX 5070 is a mid-range Blackwell card that finally makes high-refresh 1440p gaming viable without melting your power bill.
Get it if you want solid 1440p ray tracing without spending flagship money, and you don't need more than 12 GB VRAM for your games. Skip it if you're a 4K gamer or do heavy creative work that will choke on that VRAM buffer.
Buy it if…
- You want high-end 1440p gaming without the flagship price.
- You need Nvidia’s best ray tracing for under a thousand.
- You play competitive shooters and want a fast, cool card.
Its place in the overall top
753 votes