Introduction

PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti EPIC-X RGB Plus OC is the company's premium custom design graphics card based on NVIDIA's top-spec performance segment graphics card from the RTX 50-series Blackwell generation. PNY has been in the graphics card segment for decades, but only recently ramped up its presence in the custom-design gaming GPU market, with a fully in-house team. The company's RTX 40-series XLR8 graphics cards won big for their contemporary cooler design and good pricing, and the company hopes to repeat that feat with the RTX 50-series. The PNY RTX 5070 Ti EPIC-X RGB Plus OC is designed to both offer the company's top factory overclock and best fan noise tuning; plus look high-end when installed in your rig. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti from NVIDIA sits in the middle, between the performance- and enthusiast segments. It's technically being offered for 1440p maxed out high refresh-rate gaming, but we've known this GPU to be abundantly capable of 4K Ultra HD gaming, with a little effort spent with the NVIDIA App to optimize your games, and to leverage new technologies such as DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation.



The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is powered by the Blackwell graphics architecture. This architecture introduces a potentially revolutionary concept called Neural Rendering, where a generative AI model running in tandem with the game's graphics rendering stack creates richly detailed objects, which are then combined with conventional raster 3D, in the same way as ray traced objects. You know the incredible power of generative AI, which has crossed the uncanny valley, so you should have some idea what the possibilities of Neural Rendering could be. Blackwell also introduces hardware preparation for ray tracing Mega Geometry—the ability for real time ray traced objects to have higher geometric detail, and all that detail to interact with light.

The new generation Blackwell CUDA core comes with generationally increased IPC. The Blackwell streaming multiprocessor (SM) comes with concurrent INT and FP32 execution capability on all cores present in the SM, the previous Ada SM only had INT+FP32 on half its cores, while the rest were only FP32-capable. The new 5th generation Tensor core comes with FP4 capability for even more throughput by tracing in precision. Lastly, the 4th generation RT core, as we mentioned, comes with more fixed function hardware to specific ray tracing scenarios, and preparation for Mega Geometry. The AI Management Processor (AMP) is a hardware scheduler that makes it possible for the GPU to acceleration AI models and render graphics concurrently, which is what makes Neural Rendering exclusive to Blackwell. Then there's the big update to DLSS.

The new DLSS 4 feature set being introduced with Blackwell replaces the convoluted neural networks (CNN) based AI models, with newer transformers-based ones, which are more accurate, and increase image quality at every performance tier. These new AI models accelerate super resolution (upscaling), ray reconstruction, and frame generation. With Blackwell, NVIDIA is introducing Multi Frame Generation, or the ability for the GPU to create up to 3 frames following each conventionally rendered one entirely using AI. This feature relies on hardware flip-metering for the display engine, which is exclusive to Blackwell.

The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is based on the same GB203 silicon powering the RTX 5080, but is slightly cut down. While the RTX 5080 enables all 84 SM present on the GB203, the RTX 5070 Ti gets 70 out of these 84 enabled, which works out to 8,960 CUDA cores, 280 Tensor cores, 70 RT cores, and 280 TMUs. The GPU gets 96 out of the 112 ROPs, and 48 MB out of the 64 MB L2 cache present. The RTX 5070 Ti has its biggest upgrade over the previous-gen RTX 4070 Ti in terms of memory—the card gets 16 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, compared to the 12 GB across 192-bit of its predecessor. NVIDIA also implemented faster 28 Gbps GDDR7 memory, for 896 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a 77% increase.

The PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Epic-X RGB Plus OC comes with a heavy triple-slot cooling solution that uses a trio of large axial airflow fans to ventilate a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card offers overclocked speeds of 2640 MHz, an increase over the 2452 MHz reference boost frequency. PNY is pricing the RTX 5070 Ti at $925, a big premium over the $750 baseline price of the RTX 5070 Ti.