Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: Mid-Tier Goodness

As Usual, The latest round of Nvidia GPUs started with the most expensive and most powerful cards. I was lucky enough to spend some time with the elusive RTX 5080 Founders Edition (8/10, WIRED Recommends) and the practically nonexistent RTX 5090 Founders Edition (7/10, WIRED Recommends), both of which impressed with 60+ frames per second at 4K in a number of major titles. These cards represented premium examples of both GPUs, but they’ve been extremely scarce ever since their release. As we start to creep further down the budget scale, there are no fancy Founders Edition GPUs to chase after. Instead, a variety of board partners offer more typical card designs, with coolers that you’re likely to recognize from previous years and a spectrum of overclocking levels. That should mean wider availability too, but in practice things haven’t quite played out that way. The RTX 5070 Ti I have in hand today comes from Asus, and as the Prime variant, it should come in at or close to the GPU’s $74 ... Read full article.