NVIDIA · GeForce RTX 50 Series
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 specs, benchmarks, and best prices. 12GB GDDR7, 6144 CUDA cores, Blackwell. RTX 4080-class performance at $549.
Performance
60
BGaming
63
BValue
75
ATypical street price
$600–700
Launch MSRP $549 · Released Mar 2025
Prices vary with the 2026 memory shortage. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
How This Compares
Price vs gaming performance among similar GPUs (within ±$200 MSRP). Higher and further left = better value.
Full Specifications
| VRAM | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR7 |
| Boost Clock | 2512MHz |
| Base Clock | 2325MHz |
| Shader/Stream Processors | 6144 |
| Performance | 30.9TFLOPS |
| TDP | 250W |
| Memory Bus | 192-bit |
| Bandwidth | 672GB/s |
| Architecture | Blackwell |
| Process Node | 4nm |
| RT Cores | 48 |
| AI Upscaling | DLSS 4 |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Power Connector | 1x 16-pin |
| Card Length | 242mm |
| Release Date | 2025-03-05 |
Local AI on the RTX 5070
With 12GB of VRAM, here's what this card can run and how fast — estimated from memory bandwidth, the number that actually decides LLM speed.
| Model | Best quant that fits | Est. speed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 8B | Q8_0 | ~39 tok/s (Fast) | Runs great |
| Llama 3.1 8B | Q8_0 | ~40 tok/s (Fast) | Runs great |
| Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | — | — | Partial offload |
| Qwen3 32B | — | — | Partial offload |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | — | — | Partial offload |
| Gemma 4 31B | — | — | Partial offload |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B | — | — | Partial offload |
| Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B | — | — | Partial offload |
2 of 8 featured models run fully in VRAM on this card. Check a custom model size →
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Understand the Specs
Browse all terms →VRAM (Video RAM)
Dedicated memory on a graphics card used to store textures, frame buffers, and render data. More VRAM allows higher resolutions and more detailed textures.
Ray Tracing
A rendering technique that simulates how light physically behaves — bouncing, reflecting, and refracting — to produce photorealistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.
DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
NVIDIA's AI-powered upscaling technology that renders games at lower resolution and uses neural networks to reconstruct near-native image quality at much higher frame rates.
PCIe (PCI Express)
The high-speed interface connecting GPUs, SSDs, and expansion cards to your CPU and motherboard. Each generation doubles bandwidth per lane.
Bottleneck
When one component (usually the CPU or GPU) limits the performance of the system because it can't keep up with the other. Causes wasted potential in the faster component.
CUDA Cores
NVIDIA's term for the parallel processing units in their GPUs. More CUDA cores generally means more rendering and compute power. AMD's equivalent are Stream Processors.