{"id":225541,"date":"2025-03-10T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/?p=225541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:20:38","slug":"asus-tuf-geforce-rtx-5070-12gb-oc-ed-perfectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/asus-tuf-geforce-rtx-5070-12gb-oc-ed-perfectionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus TUF GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC Ed.: Perfectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the more powerful GeForce RTX 50 models face no direct competition, AMD has positioned two strong contenders against the RTX 5070\u2014the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. Both offer slightly better value and more memory. Your choice depends on whether you need a graphics card purely for gaming or also for professional applications, and how reliant you are on Nvidia\u2019s broader, more polished ecosystem with proprietary technologies.<\/p>\n

Although the GeForce RTX 5070 has only been out for a few days, it\u2019s not unfamiliar to us. We introduced it during its January announcement and covered the innovations of the RTX 50 series with the Blackwell architecture in the article Blackwell: GeForce RTX 5000 architecture and innovations [Analysis]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The newly released GeForce RTX 5070 uses the third, and so far the smallest, Nvidia chip with the Blackwell architecture. It has the codename GB205, featuring 6144 stream processors, 192 texture units, and 80 rasterization units. Unlike the earlier models with a 256-bit bus and 16 GB of memory, this one has a narrowed bus to 192 bits, resulting in a reduced total memory capacity of 12 GB.<\/p>\n

Let me just remind you of a more detailed comparison of the RTX 5070\u2019s parameters with the closest similar GeForce models in the following table, and we\u2019ll focus on the Asus card itself.<\/p>\n

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<\/td>RTX 5070 Ti <\/td>RTX 5070 <\/td>RTX 4070 Ti Super <\/td>RTX 4070 Ti <\/td>RTX 4070 <\/td><\/tr>
Shader cores <\/td>Blackwell <\/td>Blackwell <\/td>Ada Lovelace <\/td>Ada Lovelace <\/td>Ada Lovelace <\/td><\/tr>
Nvidia CUDA cores (SP) <\/td>8960 <\/td>6144 <\/td>8448 <\/td>7680 <\/td>5888 <\/td><\/tr>
RT cores <\/td>133 TFLOPS <\/td>94 TFLOPS <\/td>102 TFLOPS <\/td>93 TFLOPS <\/td>67 TFLOPS <\/td><\/tr>
Tensor Cores <\/td>1406 AI TOPS <\/td>988 AI TOPS <\/td>706 AI TOPS <\/td>641 AI TOPS <\/td>466 AI TOPS <\/td><\/tr>
Boost Clock <\/td>2,45 GHz <\/td>2,51 GHz <\/td>2,61 GHz <\/td>2,61 GHz <\/td>2,48 GHz <\/td><\/tr>
Base Clock <\/td>2,3 GHz <\/td>2,16 GHz <\/td>2,34 GHz <\/td>2,31 GHz <\/td>1,92 GHz <\/td><\/tr>
Memory <\/td>16 GB GDDR7 <\/td>12 GB GDDR7 <\/td>16 GB GDDR6X <\/td>12 GB GDDR6X <\/td>12 GB GDDR6 12 GB GDDR6X <\/td><\/tr>
Memory Bus Width <\/td>256-bit <\/td>192-bit <\/td>256-bit <\/td>192-bit <\/td>192-bit <\/td><\/tr>
Memory Bandwidth <\/td>896 GB\/s <\/td>672 GB\/s <\/td>672 GB\/s <\/td>504 GB\/s <\/td>504 GB\/s <\/td><\/tr>
Max. resolution <\/td>4K at 480Hz or 8K at 120Hz with DSC <\/td>4K at 480Hz or 8K at 120Hz with DSC <\/td>4K p\u0159i 240 Hz at 8K or 60 Hz with DSC, HDR <\/td>4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR <\/td>4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR <\/td><\/tr>
Standard Display Connectors <\/td>3\u00d7 DisplayPort, 1\u00d7 HDMI <\/td>3\u00d7 DisplayPort, 1\u00d7 HDMI <\/td>3\u00d7 DisplayPort, 1\u00d7 HDMI <\/td>3\u00d7 DisplayPort, 1\u00d7 HDMI <\/td>3\u00d7 DisplayPort, 1\u00d7 HDMI <\/td><\/tr>
PCI Express <\/td>Gen 5 <\/td>Gen 5 <\/td>Gen 4 <\/td>Gen 4 <\/td>Gen 4 <\/td><\/tr>
Nvidia Encoder <\/td>2\u00d7 9th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 9th gen. <\/td>2\u00d7 8th gen. <\/td>2\u00d7 8th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 8th gen. <\/td><\/tr>
Nvidia Decoder <\/td>1\u00d7 6th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 6th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 5th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 5th gen. <\/td>1\u00d7 5th gen. <\/td><\/tr>
length <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>242 mm <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>244 mm <\/td><\/tr>
width <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>112 mm <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>112 mm <\/td><\/tr>
height <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>2 slots <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>by manufacturer <\/td>2 slots <\/td><\/tr>
Total Graphics Power <\/td>300 W <\/td>250 W <\/td>285 W <\/td>285 W <\/td>200 W <\/td><\/tr>
Supplementary Power Connectores <\/td>2\u00d7 8pin PCIe (adapter) or 1\u00d7 300 W PCIe Gen 5 <\/td>2\u00d7 8pin PCIe (adapter) or 1\u00d7 300 W PCIe Gen 5 <\/td>2\u00d7 8pin PCIe (adapter) or 1\u00d7 300 W PCIe Gen 5 <\/td>2\u00d7 8pin PCIe (adapter) or 1\u00d7 300 W PCIe Gen 5 <\/td>2\u00d7 8pin PCIe (adapter) or 1\u00d7 300 W PCIe Gen 5 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>Wordpress Table Plugin<\/a>\n

The Asus TUF GeForce RTX 5070 is already among the more expensive and better-equipped models. It offers a dual BIOS with two performance modes, but this mainly affects fan control settings rather than GPU parameters. Other settings, such as clock speeds or power limits, remain the same between the Performance (P mode) and Quiet (Q mode) BIOS.<\/p>\n

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The base clock is identical to the reference specifications. The advertised boost clock is increased from 2512 to 2610 MHz, though in practice, it\u2019s usually higher. The power limit is set at the reference 250 W, and you can manually adjust it using overclocking utilities within a range of -30% to +20%, meaning from 175 W to 300 W.<\/p>\n

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To the values from GPU-Z monitoring, I\u2019ll add data from HWiNFO, which provides plenty of details.<\/p>\n


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The second set of images is from the Quiet BIOS, and aside from its version, there\u2019s no difference in the other data. The only difference is the fan control curve based on temperature. With higher fan performance, the card\u2019s temperatures drop, reducing component power consumption, which allows GPU boost to slightly increase clock speeds to reach the power limit.<\/p>\n

However, these are usually just tens of MHz, so the performance difference is barely measurable and unnoticeable to the eye. On the other hand, you\u2019ll hear that the card is noisier. Therefore, for performance tests, I\u2019ll use the quieter BIOS, and if you don\u2019t sit at your computer with headphones on all the time, I recommend switching to Q Mode as well.<\/p>\n

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