Palit RTX 5070 GamingPro OC Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the Palit RTX 5070 GamingPro OC3. Testing Methodology4. Game Benchmarks5. Clock Speed6. GPU Temperatures7. Acoustics8. Noise-Normalised Temperatures9. Power Draw and Efficiency10. Overclocking11. Closing Thoughts12. View All Pages

After reviewing Palit's RTX 5070 Ti GamingPro OC last week, today we are taking a step down the product stack to check out its more affordable sibling, the RTX 5070 GamingPro OC. Offering a very similar feature-set, with dual-BIOS support alongside ARGB lighting and a triple-fan cooler, this card hits the market at around £600 here in the UK and it seems like you can actually go out and buy one… but should you? We find out today.

We were fairly unimpressed with the RTX 5070 in our day one review, and since then both of AMD's RDNA 4 challengers, the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, have hit the market. While Palit's RTX 5070 GamingPro OC isn't an MSRP card, it's certainly one of the more affordable options, so let's see what it can bring to the table.

	RTX 5080	RTX 5070 Ti	RTX 5070	RTX 4070 Super	RTX 4070
Process	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4
SMs	84	70	48	56	46
CUDA Cores	10752	8960	6144	7168	5888
Tensor Cores	336	280	192	224	184
RT Cores	84	70	48	56	46
Texture Units	336	280	192	224	184
ROPs	112	96	80	80	64
GPU Boost Clock	2617 MHz	2452 MHz	2512 MHz	2475 MHz	2475 MHz
Memory Data Rate	30 Gbps	28 Gbps	28 Gbps	21 Gbps	21 Gbps
L2 Cache	65536 KB	49152 KB	49152 KB	49152 KB	36864 KB
Total Video Memory	16GB GDDR7	16GB GDDR7	12GB GDDR7	12GB GDDR6X	12GB GDDR6X
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	960 GB/Sec	896 GB/Sec	672 GB/Sec	504 GB/Sec	504 GB/Sec
TGP	360W	300W	250W	220W	200W

First, a quick spec recap. RTX 5070 marks the introduction of a new Blackwell die – GB205, where RTX 5070 is not quite full implementation but comes close. Comprised of five Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs), each holds up to eight Texture Processing Clusters (TPCs), with a total of 24. Each TPC is home to two Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), giving us 48, and each SM still holds 128 CUDA Cores, meaning the RTX 5070 has a total of 6144 shaders. We also find 48 RT cores, 192 Tensor cores, 192 Texture Units, and 80 ROPs.

This time around, however, there's no node-shrink, and GB205 remains fabricated on TSMC's N4 node, as per the RTX 40 series. As such, rated clock speed has not stepped forwards this generation, with the RTX 5070 rated at 2512MHz, though Palit has increased this to 2572MHz.

The memory configuration is similar to its predecessors, too. We still find 12GB of memory operating over a 192-bit interface, the primary difference being the jump to 28Gbps GDDR7 modules, increasing memory bandwidth to 672 GB/s. L2 cache still comes in at 49MB.

Lastly, the RTX 5070 features a 250W TGP. This is something we focus on closely in this review, using our enhanced GPU power testing methodology, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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