Introduction
MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC is a premium custom-design rendition of NVIDIA’s new performance-segment GPU that launched earlier this month. The Gaming series of graphics cards played a pivotal role in building the MSI brand since its introduction in the early 2010s. Even though it’s been supplanted at by the SUPRIM and Vanguard lines of enthusiast custom design brands the Gaming Trio still offers a compelling combination of product design, aesthetics, cooler capabilities, and factory OC. The GeForce RTX 5070 is possibly the most important model in the RTX 50-series Blackwell generation yet. It targets the broadest segment of the PC gaming market, offering maxed out gameplay at 1440p, including with ray tracing; or 1080p high refresh-rate gameplay.
The new Blackwell graphics architecture introduces Neural Rendering, a new technology in consumer 3D graphics that combines objects created by a generative AI model with conventional raster 3D scenes much in the same way as RTX brings ray traced objects to it. You need little introduction to the awesome capabilities of generative AI models to create photorealistic images and video, and can imagine its impact on gaming. AI hence plays a bigger role in rendering, and isn’t just relegated to the DLSS upscaler. This is made possible due to a new hardware-based scheduler component called the AI Management Processor (AMP), which lets the GPU accelerate AI models and render graphics in tandem.
The new Blackwell SM sees all 128 CUDA cores being capable of concurrent FP32 and INT32 math; only half the cores in an older Ada generation SM were capable of INT32. The shader execution reordering engine of Blackwell comes with the ability to reorder neural shaders. The 5th Gen Tensor core leverages FP4 data formats to increase throughput in lieu of precision. The 4th Gen RT comes with even more fixed function hardware, this time to enable Mega Geometry—a concept similar to Mega Textures, which allows ray traced objects to have exponentially higher triangle counts by leveraging hierarchies.
The GeForce RTX 5070 debuts the new GB205 silicon, the company’s third gaming GPU based on the architecture. The RTX 5070 nearly maxes it out, enabling 48 out of 50 streaming multiprocessors present on the silicon. This works out to 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensor cores, 48 RT cores, and 192 TMUs. The RTX 5070 gets all 80 ROPs present on the silicon, which is an increase over the 64 that the RTX 4070 came with. It also gets more on-die cache, with 48 MB on tap, compared to the 36 MB of the RTX 4070. While the memory size hasn’t changed—it’s still only 12 GB—the memory bandwidth sees a significant 33% increase thanks to the 28 Gbps GDDR7 memory being used.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC features a very similar board design as the RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC+ we recently reviewed. It is a slightly toned down version of the Tri Frozr 4 cooler MSI debuted with the Vanguard family of graphics cards, in that the cooler doesn’t get a vapor chamber baseplate—it uses a nickel-plated copper plate—and has fewer heat pipes, but has all other innovations by MSI for this generation, including a new aluminium fin arrangement that maximizes turbulence for heat dissipation; and the latest generation of StormForce axial airflow fans. MSI is giving the RTX 5070 factory overclocked speeds of 2610 MHz compared to 2512 MHz reference. The company is pricing the RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC at $650, a $100 premium over the NVIDIA baseline price for the RTX 5070.
| Price | Cores | ROPs | Core Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock | GPU | Transistors | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3080 | $420 | 8704 | 96 | 1440 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1188 MHz | GA102 | 28000M | 10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit |
| RTX 4070 | $490 | 5888 | 64 | 1920 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7800 XT | $440 | 3840 | 96 | 2124 MHz | 2430 MHz | 2425 MHz | Navi 32 | 28100M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RX 6900 XT | $450 | 5120 | 128 | 2015 MHz | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz | Navi 21 | 26800M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RX 6950 XT | $630 | 5120 | 128 | 2100 MHz | 2310 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 21 | 26800M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 3090 | $900 | 10496 | 112 | 1395 MHz | 1695 MHz | 1219 MHz | GA102 | 28000M | 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit |
| RTX 4070 Super | $590 | 7168 | 80 | 1980 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7900 GRE | $530 | 5120 | 160 | 1880 MHz | 2245 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti | $700 | 7680 | 80 | 2310 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RTX 5070 | $550 | 6144 | 80 | 2325 MHz | 2512 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB205 | 31100M | 12 GB, GDDR7, 192-bit |
| MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC | $650 | 6144 | 80 | 2325 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB205 | 31100M | 12 GB, GDDR7, 192-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | $750 | 8448 | 112 | 2340 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XT | $620 | 5376 | 192 | 2000 MHz | 2400 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $750 | 8960 | 96 | 2295 MHz | 2452 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |
| RTX 3090 Ti | $1000 | 10752 | 112 | 1560 MHz | 1950 MHz | 1313 MHz | GA102 | 28000M | 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit |
| RTX 4080 | $940 | 9728 | 112 | 2205 MHz | 2505 MHz | 1400 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RTX 4080 Super | $990 | 10240 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2550 MHz | 1438 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XTX | $820 | 6144 | 192 | 2300 MHz | 2500 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 24 GB, GDDR6, 384-bit |
| RTX 5080 | $1000 | 10752 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2617 MHz | 1875 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |
| RTX 4090 | $2400 | 16384 | 176 | 2235 MHz | 2520 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD102 | 76300M | 24 GB, GDDR6X, 384-bit |
| RTX 5090 | $2000 | 21760 | 176 | 2017 MHz | 2407 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB202 | 92200M | 32 GB, GDDR7, 512-bit |
