Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review (MSI Ventus 3X)
If it wasn't a $1,000+ graphics card, I'd feel sorry for the RTX 5080. It's literally half the GPU of the big boi RTX 5090—Nvidia's flagship GeForce Blackwell card—and yet suffers from severely limited stock and punitively high pricing. But it's the second-tier RTX 50-series card, and can at least claim to be the second fastest gaming GPU around, and that's got to count for something, right?
And yet here comes the RTX 5070 Ti—its supposedly cheaper, younger sibling—kicking its shins and stealing its lunch. As a consumer, I'm absolutely here for this: a new GPU punching above its weight class. But it is a little strange considering Nvidia has previously been so tight on segmenting its cards purely on performance. I've also got a feeling there's something uncomfortably funky happening with the pricing post-launch, which is sure to tarnish the RTX 5070 Ti.
Still, on the one hand, kudos to Nvidia for following up the stupidly named RTX 4070 Ti Super with a relatively specced RTX Blackwell version, and giving it a nominal $50 price cut into the bargain. But on the other hand I'm struggling to see why the RTX 5080 was hoofed out the door alongside the RTX 5090 and then followed up with a card that's not far off it on paper, and then shreds that performance delta with a huge amount of overclocking headroom.
Yeah, the RTX 5070 Ti is that card. The overclocking hero that can almost match the gaming performance of the GPU above it in the stack if you're willing to dig into the headroom Nvidia has somehow left you to play with. And the best bit is it's not even that hard to do; you don't have to be some OC genius to hit 3.2 GHz+ with this GPU.
✅ You can find it at MSRP: This is going to be the standing advice for any RTX 50-series purchase for the foreseeable. While stock levels remain expectedly tight retailers and scalpers are going to be in full effect trying to make you pay closer to $1,000 for this card.
✅ You're comfortable overclocking: There is a ton of OC headroom
