Nvidia’sRTX 5080 and RTX 5090 GPUs area scarce commodity since they launched on January 31earlier this year, but a new Blackwell-based consumer-grade GPU is on the horizon for release later this month: the RTX 5070 Ti. Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti GPU replaces the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER while trading at the same price tag as the Founder’s Edition, even as AIB versions might be more costly, if its higher-end siblings are any indication.
This makes Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti a potential sweet spot in terms of performance versus the RTX 5080 and 5090 thanks to its relatively lower MSRP of $749, even as it uses a cut-down Blackwell GB203 GPU (like the former) manufactured on a TSMC 4N FinFET process. While Nvidia had already given a timeline for the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti as February 2025, an exact date has yet to be communicated officially.
MSI’s Accidental Confirmation of The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti
Nvidia’s Add-in board partner MSI might have jumped the gun unintentionally thanks to a countdown timer shedding light on a February 20 launch datefirst spotted by WCCFTechon the MSI France website. The link has since been taken down even as other French retailershave already lent credenceto the 20th Feb delivery date. This essentially means that Nvidia’s 3rd most powerful Blackwell GPU is just over a week away before it makes its way to consumers, possibly alleviating some demand pressure for its most powerful and penultimate GPU offerings currently.
Interestingly, there is no mention of the RTX 5070, which was also expected to launch in February 2025 as per Nvidia’s announcement, something that could point to a release later, towards the tail end of the month. The RTX 5070 is expected to retail at a $549 price point for the Founder’s Edition with AIB variants expected to cost a premium amid reports of shrinking margins being offered to partners for Nvidia’s GPUs, pushing up MSRP considerably for overclocked or customized variants.
The RTX 5070 Ti: The No-Brainer 4K Purchase This Generation?
With a sizeable number of gamers in the last generation favoring the RTX 4070 Ti over the RTX 4080 due to a price point difference in play ($800 versus $1200), the RTX 5070 Ti may also be a more popular SKU with the masses. The RTX 4080 SUPER considerably narrowed the gap when it was released at $1000 and the RTX 5080 seems to follow the same pricing, making for a narrower price gap than the RTX 4000 series GPUs at launch. This makes the savings on the RTX 5080 a smaller 25% versus the 50% in play last generation.
However, the RTX 5070 Ti also has other perks, such as the fact that it comes with 16GB of GDDR7 RAM, an increase of 33%, generation on generation (the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER notwithstanding), which is only marginally slower than the memory on the RTX 5080, in addition to similar clocks, albeit with a relatively cut-down GPU die on the former.
This makes it, coupled with the AIB premium in play for all users not going for a Founder’s Edition SKU this time around, a much more appealing option from a price-to-performance perspective.It remains to be seen if the RTX 5070 Ti is the best 4K gaming GPUin 2025 as we wait for more benchmarks.
