GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
The NVIDIA card most people arguing about the 9070 XT actually end up buying.
Average in-stock listing $1,754 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $1,120), 2.3 times the $749 launch MSRP. See its price history. The links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
Will it run your models?
VRAM meterLocal AI fit: up to low-20B class models. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Open models that fit comfortably at Q4
- gpt-oss-20b 21B · 11.7 GiB · headroom 2.8 GiB
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Qwen3 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Phi-4 (14B) 14.7B · 8.2 GiB · headroom 6.3 GiB
- Gemma 3 12B IT 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Mistral NeMo 12B Instruct (2407) 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Qwen3.5 9B 9.65B · 5.4 GiB · headroom 9.1 GiB
- Gemma 2 9B IT 9.24B · 5.2 GiB · headroom 9.3 GiB
Tight but possible: Codestral 22B v0.1, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506), Gemma 4 26B-A4B IT.
What it costs to run
300W of board power, 4 hours a day under load, priced at the residential electricity rate where you live. Pick a state and the numbers update.
Board power is the rated maximum; real gaming load usually sits below it and idle is a few watts, so treat this as the ceiling. Rates: EIA residential average, May 2026. See every card ranked by running cost →
Why you buy it
- 16GB GDDR7
- Full DLSS and CUDA ecosystem
- Comfortable 1440p high refresh, capable 4K
Why you hesitate
- Street pricing often drifts above the $749 MSRP
- 9070 XT undercuts it on pure raster value
The editor's take
This is the practical top of NVIDIA's lineup for most people: 16GB, real 4K capability, and the full DLSS feature set without flagship pricing. Its whole life is a knife fight with the RX 9070 XT, which costs less; you are paying the difference for CUDA and DLSS. If you run any AI tooling on the side, that difference is usually worth it.
Decided?
Live listings for the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $1,754 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $1,120), 2.3 times the $749 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.