Hot on the heels of details of the come details of the next rung down in the rumoured Nvidia RTX 50 family of graphics cards. We give you the , the plain vanilla version and what could be a worryingly small step forward if this new "leak" is anything to go by.
According to (via ), we're looking at 6,400 CUDA cores for the RTX 5070. That's well down on the 8,960 rumoured for the RTX 5070 Ti. Perhaps even more pertinently, it's just 9% more CUDA cores than the existing and, indeed, fewer CUDA cores than the , which rocks 7,168.
| Header Cell - Column 0 | RTX 5090 | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDA cores | 21,760 | 10,752 | 8,960 | 6,400 |
| Memory bus width | 512-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Board power | 600 W | 400 W | 300 W | 250 W |
Even so, if all these rumours are correct, the gap between the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti in terms of CUDA core count is 40%, whereas the same metric for the RTX 4070 [[link]] and is just 30%. Go back to the RTX 3070 versus the RTX 3070 Ti and the gap was just 4%. Now it's supposedly going to be 40%. That only adds to the impression of a distinctly weak 70-series board this time around.
If there's any good news in all this, it's that it could open the door for Intel to be competitive with the RTX 5070. As we reported earlier today, the [[link]] latest rumours suggest that for its second generation of Arc gaming graphics cards is aimed at RTX 4070 Super performance.
If it achieves that, it might just be as fast or maybe even faster than the RTX 5070. Put another way, Nvidia's failure to move the game on at the '70 level could make for a much more competitive mid-range GPU market this time.
AMD is likewise putting all its effort into mid-range focused GPUs for its . So, there's a chance of a price war in the mid-range come the new year. OK, it's just a whisker of a chance. But a chance nonetheless.