Monday, December 16th 2024
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Leak Tips More VRAM, Cores, and Power Draw
It's an open secret by now that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5000 series GPUs are on the way, with an early 2025 launch on the cards. Now, preliminary details about the RTX 5070 Ti have leaked, revealing an increase in both VRAM and TDP and suggesting that the new upper mid-range GPU will finally address the increased VRAM demand from modern games. According to the leak from Wccftech, the RTX 5070 Ti will have 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 12 GB on the RTX 4070 Ti, as we previously speculated. Also confirming previous leaks, the new sources confirm that the 5070 Ti will use the cut-down GB203 chip, although the new leak points to a significantly higher TBP of 350 W. The new memory configuration will supposedly run on a 256-bit memory bus and run at 28 Gbps for a total memory bandwidth of 896 GB/s, which is a significant boost over the RTX 4070 Ti.
Supposedly, the RTX 5070 Ti will also see a bump in total CUDA cores, from 7680 in the RTX 4070 Ti to 8960 in the RTX 5070 Ti. The new RTX 5070 Ti will also switch to the 12V-2x6 power connector, compared to the 16-pin connector from the 4070 Ti. NVIDIA is expected to announce the RTX 5000 series graphics cards at CES 2025 in early January, but the RTX 5070 Ti will supposedly be the third card in the 5000-series launch cycle. That said, leaks suggest that the 5070 Ti will still launch in Q1 2025, meaning we may see an indication of specs at CES 2025, although pricing is still unclear.
Update Dec 16th: Kopite7kimi, ubiquitous hardware leaker, has since responded to the RTX 5070 Ti leaks, stating that 350 W may be on the higher end for the RTX 5070 Ti: "...the latest data shows 285W. However, 350W is also one of the configs." This could mean that a TBP of 350 W is possible, although maybe only on certain graphics card models, if competition is strong, or in certain boost scenarios.
Sources:
Wccftech, Kopite7kimi on X
Supposedly, the RTX 5070 Ti will also see a bump in total CUDA cores, from 7680 in the RTX 4070 Ti to 8960 in the RTX 5070 Ti. The new RTX 5070 Ti will also switch to the 12V-2x6 power connector, compared to the 16-pin connector from the 4070 Ti. NVIDIA is expected to announce the RTX 5000 series graphics cards at CES 2025 in early January, but the RTX 5070 Ti will supposedly be the third card in the 5000-series launch cycle. That said, leaks suggest that the 5070 Ti will still launch in Q1 2025, meaning we may see an indication of specs at CES 2025, although pricing is still unclear.
Update Dec 16th: Kopite7kimi, ubiquitous hardware leaker, has since responded to the RTX 5070 Ti leaks, stating that 350 W may be on the higher end for the RTX 5070 Ti: "...the latest data shows 285W. However, 350W is also one of the configs." This could mean that a TBP of 350 W is possible, although maybe only on certain graphics card models, if competition is strong, or in certain boost scenarios.


161 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Leak Tips More VRAM, Cores, and Power Draw
It is not at all impossible. It will, though, take a lot of money. "Oh, Apple won't be able to beat Intel. Intel has decades of expertise and even has its own leading fabs. Apple should stick to the Intel contract. The idea of using ARM designs for high performance is laughable and pitiable. What kind of expertise does Apple have in CPU design? Zero."
AMD could switch its role from enabling Nvidia to set prices to actually competing. That's the biggest barrier facing a would-be serious competitor... AMD's intentional sandbagging. However, even with that, AMD will still want to allocate as many of its wafers to enterprise as possible. There is space, right now, for a serious competitor which AMD has vacated and hasn't occupied for many years. Claims that there isn't enough market aren't supported when discontinued GPUs sell out so quickly, regardless of whether or not something like a mining craze is happening. The cards sell. If there were no market, they wouldn't.
It strikes me as weak that people are so excited about the 9800X3D, even though it's mostly an overclocked (increased power budget) variant of the 7800X3D and what people really need are more affordable powerful GPUs. Oh boy... a faster CPU to use with massively overpriced GPUs. What value!
There are so many comments claiming that people buy Nvidia cards because of the branding. That's not true. The main reason people buy them is because the alternatives aren't as good on a technical level. If I were to be given a chunk of Elon's fortune to create the Potato GPU corporation, releasing a card with Vicki Lawrence's Mama on the striped and polka dotted box, fake flowers and potpurri in the box with the GPU, influencer videos from me as the CEO mocking people for buying them — saying all their friends will make fun of them, and printing LAME! on the GPU shroud, they would sell out. Why? Because they'd offer better performance for less money than what Nvidia is offering, without the shortcomings. How?
1) More VRAM than Nvidia at each tier.
2) Competitive gaming performance per watt.
3) Better gaming performance per dollar.
4) Clearer naming strategy. No more Ti, Super, XT/XTX, products with the same name but different specs, products with a bigger number but worse performance, etc.
5) Each generation would be much better than the previous one in performance, not going down in performance per dollar especially.
6) Possibly moving the AI-oriented/RT-oriented hardware to a separate GPU, for a dual-GPU setup for those who care about those things. Possibly involving a new form factor to reduce latency.
7) Longer driver support than both Nvidia and AMD.
8) Better drivers out of the gate than Intel.
9) Top-end performance that's, at minimum, no lower than whatever Nvidia's top consumer card offers.
10) Serious committment to performance in AI workloads.
11) Excellent Linux support, not just Windows support.
12) Quiet cooling.
One doesn't need smoke and mirrors to sell a superior product.
There are endless comments trying to justify AMD's refusal to compete which is AMD's method of letting Nvidia set prices. (Soft collusion that also benefits Sony and MS by keeping "consoles" relevant.) They claim that there aren't enough customers to justify the creation of products, even though the 4090 was sold out for a long time. The argument that "consoles" are so good now (as compared to the pathetic Jaguar generation) has some merit but the video game market continues to expand, not contract. I would like to see good data showing that the serious ("enthusiast") PC gaming market is too small for a company to be able to make a profit whilst undercutting Nvidia — and that the market wouldn't expand if people were to be able to purchase better-value PC gaming equipment at the enthusiast level. Instead, what I've seen are comments that could be written by AMD and Nvidia. "Oh... woe is us... there's nothing we can do... Here's my money..." fatalism.
Enthusiasts are the people who care about hardware specs. The claim that they're blinded by "team" this and that has been shown to be untrue. Enthusiasts are not Dell, chained to one vendor. When a truly superior product becomes available, they will abandon everything else unless they're being paid to use the competition's. Enthusiasts are debating the 7800X3D vs 9800X3D for gaming. They aren't blinded by Intel's history of better performance (particularly Sandy Bridge—Skylake.)
Pointing to historical situations in which Nvidia was able to sell inferior products at a higher rate than AMD/ATI seems to point to inadequate marketing. But even then, ATI and AMD cards had drawbacks, like inadequate coolers. The cooler AMD used for the 290X was embarassingly underpowered and I believe I recall that ASUS released a Strix version that was defectively designed. The current state of the Internet makes it very easy to get the word out about a superior product. A certain tech video review site, for instance, has millions of YT followers. Don't tell me people aren't going to learn about the superior product and will instead buy blindly. I don't buy it. I also don't think serious gamers care about what generic imagery is on the box, and that includes the brand logo and color scheme.
If it were my company, I would ditch the archaic ATX form factor so that GPUs, which are the highest-wattage components by far, would have the form factor be about cooling them efficiently as the #1 design priority. Let's have some actual innovation (serious and committed) for once, instead of endless iteration of copy-cat products.
Anyway... my 1 cent. That's how much I have to rub together to get Potato GPU corporation off the ground. I'm not friends with the guys who build flaming moats.
It’ll be amazing if it’s even more than 2-3% faster than a 4080s. Going to be another generation of Nvidia giving you less for more.
So yeah, I can see where Vayra's coming from; Ampere certainly won't win any awards on the VRAM front--but relative to what came before and since, the mental image of Ampere's intended stack seems like an unattainable ideal.
VRAM will continue to be a sore point, I suspect, because AI workloads are extremely VRAM-intensive. Nvidia therefore has a very keen incentive to use VRAM as a market segmentation mechanism. If GPUs were primarily about gaming, this probably wouldn't be an issue, at least not to anywhere near the same degree.
It is funny how things shift over time, though. 20 years ago, adding lots of VRAM to weak cards was a common and scummy marketing tactic--so much so that PC-Hardware/gaming communities grew to view VRAM as unimportant/overrated. That legacy, I believe, explains why we still see so many people insisting that e.g. 8 GB is just fine ("those cards are too weak to use more anyway!"), even despite the growing mountain of evidence demonstrating otherwise--even despite the fact that adding better textures to older games is perhaps the easiest way to jazz them up, even despite expansive modding communities creating VRAM intensive enhancements that can, in fact, run very well on lower end cards, even despite the fact that new-fangled technologies like RT and frame generation cost non-trivial amounts of VRAM. Now, if anything, the tables have turned. VRAM is under-specced and widely under-valued, except by the people who make money selling it, of course.
All my cards have been pretty reasonable with power out of the box so far, and I'd prefer it to keep it that way. Mainly because I'm on Linux now, so my tools for software tuning, especially with Nvidia, are limited. But anyway, I trust the engineers at AMD/Nvidia know what they're doing, so I don't feel any itch to tinker.
It's just that I don't think I could ever do anything in software to make a meaningful difference (I don't care about +-10%), so I'd rather not waste my time on fruitless efforts. :)
Even at 4k a 4090 is cpu bound in many of the latest releases.
There is a caveat to the marketing stance though. There is an overwhelming majority of market segment(s) that are not enthusiasts and they do fall for it. You see this in gaming too. If there were only enthusiast gamers... CoD and FIFA would not be this big, for example. And in the slipstream of the majority vote, come the followers who 'play this anyway because friends do it too'. Peer pressure is powerful. We only need to recall that South Park episode...
Well, let me rephrase, MOST people will not be upset. There will be those angry that nvidia doesnt give then a 4090 at $200 but, meh. Cant please everyone.
IPC gains and more memory bandwith
So it will be much fasterThats why Nvidia got so much hate.. by looking marketshare its have to be that many Amd users only speak lot or trash about Nvidia in forums atm.
Same story..
Low Vram
it gonna be bad Perf vs old gen
High priceIt will be close at least..