NVIDIA GeForce 5070 Ti review: A 'sensible' 4K powerhouse for $749

NVIDIA 's $ 549 5070 and $ 749 RTX 5070 Ti are more reasonable alternatives to the $ 2,000 and $1,000 5080 .

But card makers and retailers have already pushed $ 900 at Best Buy and $ 750 at Newegg .

It's a solid upgrade for gamers looking for a bit more power and memory than the 5070.

It features 8,960 CUDA cores and 16 GB of VRAM , well below the 5080 's 10,752 .

The new card is 17 percent ahead of the 4070 Ti in the 3DMark Timespy Extreme test.

The difference is even smaller in raw computing and rendering tasks.

The real question for gamers is: Do you need the RTX 5070 Ti's 16 GB of VRAM and higher CUDA count? If you're aiming to play in 4 K most of the time, it'll be worth having more than the 5070 's 12 GB of RAM .

AMD 's upcoming RDNA 4 Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT cards are being positioned as direct competitors to the 5070 and 5070 Ti.

AMD finally has DLSS -like AI-powered upscaling coming this year , so the difference between its cards and NVIDIA 's may be slimmer than usual.