The ROG Strix GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB OC Edition targets enthusiasts of premium products. It impresses with its refined design, significantly oversized cooling, and ARGB lighting that stands out in a glass case. Extras include headers for system fans and a fifth display output. It offers a Q mode for quiet cooling fans and gives tuners ample headroom for boosting performance and and fine-tune acoustics.
Final thoughts
The Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition is the best-equipped RTX 5070 Ti in Asus’s lineup. Visually, it probably turned out the best, too. It also has seriously overbuilt cooling with plenty of headroom. If you want a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti with quality ARGB lighting from a renowned manufacturer that will look great in a glass-sided PC regardless of cost, you can probably justify the purchase. It’s a showpiece.
As is usual with Asus’s premium products, the price is the downside. It currently starts at 1130 EUR including tax—nearly 250 EUR above the base RTX 5070 Ti models and almost 100 EUR above the cheapest RTX 5080s.
If you’re looking for graphics cards with a good price-to-performance ratio and don’t value the card’s extra features, this model really isn’t interesting for you. The current extreme price premium brutally hurts the price-to-performance ratio, not only compared to base models but also against those with solid cooling from the middle of the product range.
The previously tested MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus managed slightly better noise levels in quiet mode with similar temperatures, and you can find it for 100 EUR less. While the Strix runs about 100 MHz higher in practice, this doesn’t impact the price-to-performance ratio as much as the price difference does.
From a practical standpoint, the TUF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is also a more advantageous alternative; it has similar noise levels and is around 50 EUR cheaper. It just doesn’t look as nice, lacks some of the premium features, and won’t shine as brightly behind glass.
In Q mode, the cooler is fairly quiet, but with fans running between 1300–1500 RPM, it’s not completely inaudible. I would have welcomed a fan control curve set a bit less aggressively in the quiet mode; the cooler has enough headroom for the card to be even quieter inside a case. The power delivery coils are quieter than usual, but you can still clearly hear by ear when the card is under load.
In P mode, the regulation settings are a disappointment; the performance gain of roughly 30 MHz is really not worth the significant increase in noise.
Just to reiterate, the cards have slightly worse conditions during our testing than in most other reviews—the ambient temperature is 25 °C and the card is tested inside a case with system fans at low speeds, so the operating characteristics results will be somewhat worse. But all other RTX 5070 Ti cards were tested under the same conditions.
If you enjoy tweaking your system and the card itself, you can add some bonus points—the Strix gives you plenty of room for overclocking and fine-tuning the cooling to ultimately achieve a result you’re satisfied with.
| Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 OC Edition (90YV0M90-M0NM00) |
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+ In quiet mode, it’s among the quieter cards, though not completely silent − Extreme price premium over standard RTX 5070 Ti models |
| Approximate retail price incl. VAT: 1130 EUR |
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
