RTX 5070 vs RTX 5070 Ti: Is the Ti Worth It in 2026?

Updated 2026-10-11.

How much faster is the Ti, and what each frame costs

Divide a card’s price by its average frame rate and you get what each frame costs. The cheaper frame is the better value. I used Newegg’s buy boxes for both cards.

What the Ti’s extra $280 buys. Frame rates are averages from Jeffrey Kampman’s Tom’s Hardware GPU hierarchy, updated June 24, 2026, which tests 11 raster games and 8 ray-traced games at high and ultra settings on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The ray-traced set is the four raster titles with RT support plus four games that require it or look best with it. Prices are the cheapest new cards sold by Newegg on September 26, 2026, the MSI RTX 5070 12G Gaming Trio OC at $869.99 and the MSI RTX 5070 Ti 16G Frieren Edition OC at $1,149.99, 32% more.

The Ti costs 32% more and leads by less than that in five of the six rows, so each of its frames costs more. The exception is 4K ray tracing. There the 5070 averages 22.7 fps in Tom’s Hardware’s suite against the Ti’s 36.7, a lead almost twice the price gap, so a Ti frame costs $31.33 against the 5070’s $38.33. At 1440p with ray tracing their costs per frame land within 3% of each other. These are suite averages, and one game can sit anywhere around them. The GPU comparison tool compares the same raster scores for any pair of cards at three resolutions.

The lead grows with resolution in both modes. For where both cards sit among every other current GPU, the 2026 GPU hierarchy puts the Ti in its top tier and the 5070 one tier down.

Where 12GB runs out

The widest gap in Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 averages is 4K with ray tracing, 22.7 fps against 36.7, a 61.7% lead where 4K raster shows 26.3%. Tom’s does not attribute it to memory. The 12GB failure the reviews below measured is in one game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which will not run without ray tracing.

Steven Walton’s RTX 5070 review for TechSpot (March 4, 2025) ran it with full path tracing and measured 13 fps at 1440p with upscaling, against 47 fps from the RTX 4070 Ti Super. Thirteen frames a second is unplayable. With those settings the game crashes at 4K on a 12GB card and refuses to relaunch until it is started in safe mode with lower settings. Jarred Walton’s RTX 5070 review for Tom’s Hardware, published the same day, says certain games, Indiana Jones among them, can use more than the 12GB on the card.

For path tracing, skip the 12GB card. At 1440p with path tracing off, the table above decides it.

The specs

Both are Blackwell cards and the Ti uses the larger GB203 chip, going by NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 family page and the spec tables in Tom’s Hardware’s RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti reviews.

The Ti has 46% more CUDA cores and 33% more bandwidth on NVIDIA’s and Tom’s Hardware’s figures, and it runs 17% to 26% faster from 1080p to 4K in Tom’s Hardware’s raster averages. The spec sheet overstates the gap. NVIDIA lists two NVENC encoders on the Ti against one on the 5070, all ninth generation. NVIDIA asks for a 650W supply for the 5070 and 750W for the Ti. The PSU wattage calculator sizes yours.

NVIDIA’s $549 and $749 figures are launch MSRPs, not current retail prices. The dated Newegg rows in the performance table are the prices used for this page’s value calculation. An overclocked RTX 5070 may narrow a small part of the gap, but it still has 12GB on a 192-bit bus against the Ti’s 16GB on a 256-bit bus; a factory OC does not turn one model into the other.

The 30.9 TFLOPS and 80-ROP fields come from Tom’s Hardware’s RTX 5070 silicon table; its Ti review supplies the companion values. NVIDIA separately publishes 94 RT TFLOPS for the 5070, which measures ray-tracing throughput and is not the same field. Neither theoretical TFLOPS nor a ROP count converts directly into game FPS; the measured table above remains the buying evidence.

A 5070 Ti Laptop GPU is a different part

Do not transfer this desktop comparison to notebooks. NVIDIA’s laptop specification page lists the RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU with 5,888 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR7 and a 60–115W subsystem-power range. The RTX 5070 Laptop GPU has 4,608 cores, 12GB or 8GB of GDDR7 and a 50–100W range; the RTX 5060 Laptop GPU has 3,328 cores, 8GB and a 45–100W range. The desktop RTX 5070 Ti above has 8,960 cores and 16GB.

Notebookcheck reported the 5070 Ti Laptop GPU about 40% faster on average in games and 40% to 60% faster in synthetic tests. That comparison used an XMG Pro 16 engineering sample at the Ti’s fastest 140W setting and a Gigabyte Aero X16 engineering sample at 85W, below the 5070’s 100W ceiling. Notebookcheck also says system configuration and TGP can move the results. Those ranges belong to the tested laptops and do not establish a fixed GPU gap.

Its 5060-versus-5070 preview used different MSI and Gigabyte notebooks and estimated only about a 5% 5070 lead at equal power. These are useful boundaries, not a substitute for tests of the exact laptop chassis and power mode.

The RTX 5080 Laptop GPU is another separate mobile part. NVIDIA lists 7,680 CUDA cores, 16GB of GDDR7 and 1,334 AI TOPS, against 5,888 cores, 12GB and 992 AI TOPS for the 5070 Ti Laptop GPU. Those specifications establish the tier and memory difference, but not the gap in a particular notebook. For a 5070 Ti Laptop versus 5080 Laptop purchase, compare matched chassis, GPU power mode and cooling tests; a lower-power 5080 laptop cannot be ranked from the model name alone.

The RX 9070 XT undercuts both

In Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 averages the RX 9070 XT scores 116.5 fps at 1440p raster against the Ti’s 116.8. That is a near tie. On September 26, 2026 the cheapest new one sold by Newegg, an ASRock RX 9070 XT Monster Hunter Wilds edition, cost $819.99, which is $330 less than the Ti and $50 less than the cheapest new 5070.

With ray tracing the Ti pulls ahead. Tom’s Hardware has it at 66.2 fps in 1440p against the 9070 XT’s 55.5, 19% ahead, though at $330 more its ray-traced frames still cost more than the 9070 XT’s. If you mostly play without ray tracing, I would buy the 9070 XT. The RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT comparison covers the feature side. The rung below is RTX 5060 Ti vs RTX 5070.

Don’t step up to a 5080

The cheapest in-stock new RTX 5080 sold by Newegg on September 26, 2026, an MSI RTX 5080 16G Ventus 3X OC Black, cost $1,679.99, 46% more than the Ti, and in Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 raster averages it runs 128.3 fps at 1440p against the Ti’s 116.8, which is 9.8% faster, with 12.8% more at 4K. At 1440p, moving from the 5070 to the Ti buys 21% for 32% more money. Moving from the Ti to the 5080 buys 9.8% for 46% more. I would stop at the Ti. The full comparison, with the power log and the local LLM rows, is RTX 5070 Ti vs RTX 5080.

So which should you buy?

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• For 1440p with path tracing off, the RTX 5070. Its frames cost less in every raster row of the table. Newegg had the MSI RTX 5070 12G Gaming Trio OC at $869.99 on September 26, 2026. Check the current price at Amazon or buy it at Newegg. If you would rather have the 5070 inside a finished machine, the RTX 5070 prebuilt guide ranks the towers Newegg sold on October 1, 2026.
• For ray tracing at 4K, or path tracing at any resolution, the RTX 5070 Ti. Its 4K ray-traced frames are the cheaper ones, and it has 16GB. At 4K without ray tracing the 5070’s frame still costs less ($16.02 against $16.76), so there the Ti buys frame rate, not value. On the 5070 the fix for path tracing is lower settings. Newegg had the MSI RTX 5070 Ti 16G Frieren Edition OC at $1,149.99 on September 26, 2026. Check the current price on Amazon’s RTX 5070 Ti search, where I found no Frieren Edition on September 26, 2026, or buy it at Newegg. If you would rather have the Ti inside a finished machine, the RTX 5070 Ti prebuilt guide ranks the 9800X3D towers Newegg sold on September 30, 2026.
• For raster games at any resolution, price the RX 9070 XT before either.

If either price has moved by the time you read this, divide the new price by the card’s frame rate in the table for the row you play at.