ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: Midrange Blackwell Tested

With all of the AI, creator, and synthetic tests out of the way, let's move on to the actual games. Homeworld 3 is the latest installment in the long-running real-time strategy (RTS) series, developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software. Released in mid-2024, Homeworld 3 continues the space saga that began with the original Homeworld game. We tested Homeworld 3 at a couple of resolutions -- up to 4K -- with and without resolutions scaling enabled.

Homeworld 3 Benchmarks

Homeworld 3

With this mix of GPUs, Homeworld 3 was somewhat CPU limited when running at 1440p, with the RTX 4080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 4070 Ti performing within a couple of percentage points of one another. The deltas separating the cards is more pronounced out when running the game at 4K, where the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is able to overtake the RTX 4080 slightly.

With FSR 2 or DLSS enabled (sans frame generation, Balanced preset), the CPU limitation in this game levels the playing field somewhat, and the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti lands right in between the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Benchmarks

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti finishes a few percentage points ahead of the RTX 4070 Ti in this game, but ultimately trails all of the higher-end previous-gen GPUs, including the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.


This game supports DLSS and FSR 3, and frame generation is an option too. With resolution scaling enabled on its own, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti inches very close to the top-end Radeon, but can't catch the RTX 4080. The same is true with frame generation enabled, but the effective framerate is obviously much higher. 

The Talos Principle II Testing

Assassin's Creed Mirage Benchmarks

The deltas separating the enthusiast-class and upper mid-range cards in Assassin's Creed Mirage were relatively small at 1440p, but once again the deltas are more pronounced at 4K when things become more GPU limited. Still, we don't learn anything new here -- the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti slots in between the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti yet again. 

Black Myth: Wukong Benchmarks

F1 24 Racing Sim Benchmarks

F1 24 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) features and NVIDIA technologies, like DLSS with frame generation. We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what these graphics cards could do.

F1 24

 

F1 24 isn't quite as demanding as some of the other AAA titles we tested, but it tells a similar story. The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti performs well, trading blows with the Raeon RX 7900 XTX, depending on the resolution. 


With DLSS or FSR 2 (Balanced) enabled in F1 24, all of the cards we tested put up excellent triple-digit framerates, except for the older RTX 3070 Ti -- which doesnt support FG. The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 7900 XTX remain competitive with only resolution scaling enabled, but the 5070 Ti's boost with frame gen turned on isn't quite as pronounced. 

Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time all the way back in 1988, and the intervening 30-odd years has not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the '80s imagined what the future would look like.

The PC game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technology and features support for DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations. Although it is no longer considered a new title, Cyberpunk 2077 remains a showcase for many advanced graphics technologies.

We tested a pre-release version of Cyberpunk 2077 that's been updated with support for DLSS 4's transformer model and multi-frame generation. This is an important note because Cyberpunk foreshadows how future games, that are optimized for the Blackwell GPU architecture and the RTX 50 series, may perform relative to previous-gen GPUs. 

With native rendering, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti end up being about 33% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti in this game, and it nearly catches the RTX 4080. The older RTX 3070 Ti, with its previous-gen RT cores and smaller frame buffer, really falls down. Still, all of the cards get beat up pretty good with the demanding image quality settings we uses, so let's enable some resolution scaling and frame gen...


This is where things get interesting. As you can see, with each successive level of DLSS with multi-frame generation enabled, the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti blows past the RTX 4080 and ultimately surpasses the RTX 4090. Injecting those additional frames boosts performance dramatically, and the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti finishes behind the RTX 5080 with over 170 FPS, which is over a 6X improvement versus native rendering.

Because this game also supports NVIDIA Reflex technology, latency is also low enough that you still feel engaged while playing with frame generation enabled, and image quality is also improved thanks to the use of the updated transformer model. You can see some of the ways the new transformer model helps DLSS here.