ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition Video Card Review

[magoo]

Introduction On our test bench today we have the latest entry into ASUS’s TUF Gaming series of GPUs with the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 12GB GDDR7 OC Edition video card. Launched on March 4th, 2025, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 sits just below the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in the new Blackwell GPU […]

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[Grimlakin]

Man I have a ruff time wondering why people would by this over a 9070 or even a 9070xt.

 

[magoo]

I agree. Now that the 9070XT is out, the choice is obvious, especially if you dont care about ray tracing. But....thats the deal and it is the pinnacle of graphics in the right games. What we dont talk much about though is turning on DLSS4 and jacking up FrameGen to 4x. That is the game changer for the 5070. Yeah....but....its.....fake....frames....I dont care. It takes a game the card cant handle and lets you play it. Ive done it in a bunch of ray traced games and the technology is pretty amazing. Isnt that what we are all about? Improving technology? I mean, overclocking is just brute force DLSS and we all think that is fine and dandy. Circling back...in plain raster, 9070XT at 1440 is the schizzle, hands down.

 

[Grimlakin]

I agree. Now that the 9070XT is out, the choice is obvious, especially if you dont care about ray tracing. But....thats the deal and it is the pinnacle of graphics in the right games. What we dont talk much about though is turning on DLSS4 and jacking up FrameGen to 4x. That is the game changer for the 5070. Yeah....but....its.....fake....frames....I dont care. It takes a game the card cant handle and lets you play it. Ive done it in a bunch of ray traced games and the technology is pretty amazing. Isnt that what we are all about? Improving technology? I mean, overclocking is just brute force DLSS and we all think that is fine and dandy. Circling back...in plain raster, 9070XT at 1440 is the schizzle, hands down.

I have nothing against MFG in games. My problem is while it might be an non issue in a lot of games... and look/work just fine. The latency it introduces to controls for people that don't realize that will hurt them. Sure they will learn... but then enters buyers remorse.

Alternatively... I've seen some interesting tech in use where people are using their ADM card for raster then an NVidia card for MFG on top of it... it's kind of bonkers.... very hit or miss... but would be cool if that could work. high frame rate base game with MFG tacked on could be a great experience all around.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Man I have a ruff time wondering why people would by this over a 9070 or even a 9070xt.

The problem is, it too is expensive, and not at MSRP, with rumors that pricing on the 9070/XT will actually not be MSRP, but higher, in the next couple of months it's all a wash. The prices fluctuating on both ends, is a problem for everyone. It's very uncertain times. So in a perfect world, at MSRP, I might agree with you, but if the 9070/XT is also very inflated on pricing, then, well, /shrug

 

[magoo]

I dont think thats a fair assumption.
You cant base your purchase on rumors.
I dont care if the two cards cost the same. The new AMD cards are very good and the nvidia cards at the low end arent. About all nvidia has is the improvement in DLSS and everybody has big hate for that, instead of congratulations for pretty amazing technology.

 

[Brent_Justice]

Unfortuntely, all the cards are out of stock right now, so we don't know what the available price actually is for the 9070/XT either. If you look at PC Part Picker, any 9070s showing in stock are above $700, up to $850, and that's just for the 9070 model, ouch.

It is not really an assumption, it's a given right now that AMD's GPUs are not going to be MSRP pricing. They are in fact, marked to go up in pricing; that is pretty much confirmed.

It truly is uncertain on both sides, not great for the consumer sadly. I've said it before, GPU MSRP is a construct, and that is truly the sad state of affairs.

As for features, I would argue NVIDIA has the upper-hand in the DLSS Upscaling department, DLSS 4's Transformer model is amazing for Upscaling quality and beats AMD's FSR 4 implementation in quality, plus DLSS is simply integrated in more games than FSR 4 currently. Frame Generation's usefulness aside, NVIDIA does hold a win in DLSS Upscaling and FG image quality currently.

While AMD has improved in RT performance, our testing does show NVIDIA holds the win in RT performance still as well.

A big advantage red team, though, is the 16GB VRAM buffer on the 9070. The 5070's 12GB is not acceptable.

 

[Grimlakin]

I agree with everything and if you're doing online video calls off of your gaming box... the broadcast suite offered by Nvidia is also very nice. Though animated backgrounds and AI eye attention being turned on kills 6 gig of vram (work laptop) it does work.