NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Shares rank 21 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
Owners praise its speed in demanding games and for running local AI models, at around $750 to $1000. Critics say its price is hard to justify.
Owners praise its speed in demanding games and for running local AI models, at around $750 to $1000. Critics say its price is hard to justify.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 65%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 1 month
Median of the 3 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs local AI models
“You can put together dual 5060 Ti or 5070 Ti systems to run local LLMs too.”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price” “it is absolutely incredible what can be accomplished on local hardware”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis” “I recently purchased a GPU capable of running 16GB models”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “AI Can't Be Listed as Inventor on Patent Applications, Japan's Top Court Rules” Fast in demanding games
“Nvidia 5070ti highest settings on 120hz monitor with 120-200 fps”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark” “It is MUCH FASTER than the non-Ti”
Comment from 3 Jul 2026 in “Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater” “played demanding games just fine”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains” Strong performance against rival chips
“Apple silicone is competing with a 5070ti on modern workloads”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Helping Valve to power up Steam devices” “I don't think anything compares to the nVidia chips at all”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Was my $48K GPU server worth it?” “RTX 5070Ti - damn! – faster than anything by AAPL”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Price hard to justify
“It performs almost identically it just doesn't make purchase sense”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI” “It cost 900eur because nvidia is shafting you”
Comment from 15 Jan 2026 in “Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next” “if you want 16 GB it's $1000 for the 5070 Ti”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiThis page | 11 | 6 | 65% | 9 | 1 mo3 owners | — |
What people said
20 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“You can put together dual 5060 Ti or 5070 Ti systems to run local LLMs too.”
“for around $750 without needing to wait for it to be in stock”
“it is absolutely incredible what can be accomplished on local hardware”
“Having just bought a 5070 Ti (16GB) instead of a 5090 (24GB), I am sad.”
“this new 5070Ti purrs more-happily”
“It is MUCH FASTER than the non-Ti”
“I recently purchased a GPU capable of running 16GB models”
“RTX 5070Ti - damn! – faster than anything by AAPL”
“For h265 hardware encoding, the performance differences on higher-end cards benchmarks was negligible.”
“I don't think anything compares to the nVidia chips at all”
“It performs almost identically it just doesn't make purchase sense”
“The 5070 Ti would be the same spot”
“played demanding games just fine”
“if you want 16 GB it's $1000 for the 5070 Ti”
“Good thing I got my 5070ti when I did.”
“It cost 900eur because nvidia is shafting you”
“I have used it for maybe 3-4 hours since then. It begs the question maybe I should have rented the compute instead”
“cheaper than the equivalent 5070 Ti”
“Apple silicone is competing with a 5070ti on modern workloads”
“Nvidia 5070ti highest settings on 120hz monitor with 120-200 fps”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.