ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: Midrange Blackwell Tested
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (4.7GHz - 5.2GHz, 8-Core) MSI X870E Carbon WiFi 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7900 XT GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5080 GeForce RTX 5090 Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 AMD Radeon v24.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v571.86 / v571.12 |
Benchmarks Used: MLPerf Client Geekbench AI Procyon AI Text Generation Procyon AI Stable Diffusion XL Blender v4.3 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v4.3.1 V-Ray UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Assassin's Creed Mirage Black Myth Wukon Homeworld 3 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 (press beta) The Talos Principle II F1 24 |
MLPerf Client Benchmarks
The MLPerf Client benchmark was designed by MLCommons to evaluate machine learning inference tasks on PCs. It focuses on client form factors and aims to measure how well different hardware and software configurations handle four different AI workloads using a single model. It supports DirectML via ONNX Runtime for a wide range of hardware, but Intel also gets a specialized OpenVINO path for now. Participants in MLCommons are also able to optimize the models for their hardware, but must meet strict guidelines for accuracy.
The MLPerf Client benchmark had the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti finishing just about where you'd expect -- a bit behind the more powerful GeForce RTX 5080, but a notch ahead of the previous-gen GeForce RTX 4080. For AI workloads, the Blackwell GPU architecture is more capable than the Ada Lovelace architecture of the RTX 40 series, which gives the RTX 5070 Ti a bit of an edge over the RTX 4080.
Geekbench AI Testing
Geekbench AI is a cross-platform benchmark tool designed to evaluate the performance of AI workloads on a wide range devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. It measures the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs (Neural Processing Units) across different operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux with an array of machine learning tasks.
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 4080 trade blows depending on the precision level employed by GeekBench AI. The single precision and quantized scores tip the RTX 4080's way, but the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti pulls ahead in the half precision test.
The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 4080 trade blows depending on the precision level employed by GeekBench AI. The single precision and quantized scores tip the RTX 4080's way, but the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti pulls ahead in the half precision test.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmarks
The Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark is a tool developed by UL Solutions to evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Windows PCs. It features real-world use cases and uses seven prompts with both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and non-RAG queries. It tests various AI models like Phi-3.5-mini, Mistral-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and Llama-2-13B. These tests were run using ONNX with DirectML, not TensorRT, which is optimal for NVIDIA's RTX series discrete GPUs, but unavailable in this test at this time with this particular test.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
With all four models, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti edges out the GeForce RTX 4080 and lands just behind the more powerful GeForce RTX 5080. The RTX 4090, however, remains in the top spot here. Note, the RTX 3070 Ti failed the Llama 2 test (it kept returning a score of 0), hence its removal from that chart.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
With all four models, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti edges out the GeForce RTX 4080 and lands just behind the more powerful GeForce RTX 5080. The RTX 4090, however, remains in the top spot here. Note, the RTX 3070 Ti failed the Llama 2 test (it kept returning a score of 0), hence its removal from that chart.
UL Procying Stable Diffusion XL AI Image Generation
The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark measures inference performance for image generation tasks. It includes several tests, with the Stable Diffusion XL (FP16) test we used here being the most demanding. The test is designed to evaluate a wide range of hardware from low power NPUs to high-end discrete GPUs and it can be configured to use different inference engines like NVIDIA TensorRT, Intel OpenVINO, and ONNX with DirectML. Unfortunately, the TensorRT engine hasn’t been updated for Blackwell just yet, but we tested it with ONNX to provide a point of reference versus the RTX 40 series cards.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
Like the LLM test above, this benchmark hasn't been updated to support TensorRT on Blackwell just yet. Disregarding the Tensor RT results and focusing on ONNX for a moment, we see the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti landing smack-dab in between the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti. Note, the kind of performance uplift you see on the RTX 40 Series cards using Tensor RT, should translate to the RTX 50 series as well, once this benchmark is updated.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
Like the LLM test above, this benchmark hasn't been updated to support TensorRT on Blackwell just yet. Disregarding the Tensor RT results and focusing on ONNX for a moment, we see the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti landing smack-dab in between the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti. Note, the kind of performance uplift you see on the RTX 40 Series cards using Tensor RT, should translate to the RTX 50 series as well, once this benchmark is updated.
Blender v4.3 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
As we switch gears from AI to 3D rendering, the GeForce RTX 4080 pulls a bit further ahead of the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. The newer RTX 5070 Ti, however, clearly outruns the previous-gen "70" class cards and AMD's current flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
V-Ray Rendering
The V-Ray Benchmark is a free tool that measures rendering performance on CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both. The GPU benchmark in particular features a complex scene designed to evaluate the capabilities of both the RTX and CUDA-based V-Ray 6 render engines.
We tested V-Ray using the higher-performing RTX render engine, which leverages the RT cores in NVIDIA GPUs -- sorry, no support for Radeons in this one. The results are as expected, with the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti slotting in between the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that determines the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW video frames. The tool can be used to evaluate performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting four results here, at 8K and 4K resolutions, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
At both resolutions and compression levels, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti performs well. Blackwell's updated media engine and increased memory bandwidth propel the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti ahead of all of the RTX 40 series cards (including the RTX 4090), and put it just behind the GeForce RTX 5080 -- no surprise, since they're powered by the same physical GPU.
