Introduction and parameters
The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AERO OC 16G targets gamers moving away from flashy RGB setups and pitch-black components, opting instead for an all-white aesthetic. Its elegant design and massive cooler take it clear that it’s built for demanding gamers who want more than just the best price-to-performance. Beyond its unconventional look, it also delivers slightly higher performance thanks to factory overclocking and excellent cooler.
The new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti uses the same GB203 GPU as the more powerful GeForce RTX 5080 but has fewer active compute units. Importantly, it retains the 256-bit memory bus and 16 GB of memory, similar to the RTX 5080 and the older RTX 4070 Ti Super. However, compared to the previous generation, it features faster GDDR7.
Compared to the RTX 5080 with a fully active GPU, the RTX 5070 Ti has fewer stream processors, reduced from 10,752 to 8,960, and texture units decreased from 336 to 280. The number of raster operations units has also been reduced from 112 to 96, tensor cores have dropped from 336 to 280, and ray tracing cores have been cut from 84 to 70. The base clock speed is 2300 MHz, with a boost up to 2452 MHz, while the memory runs at 1750 MHz (28 Gb/s). In contrast, the GeForce RTX 5080 has a base clock of 2295 MHz but a higher boost clock of 2617 MHz.
The overall memory bandwidth is also slightly lower due to the reduced memory clock, which dropped from 1875 MHz (30 Gb/s) to 1750 MHz (28 Gb/s).
Today, we’ll focus on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AERO OC 16G, which sits in the middle of Gigabyte’s lineup. It can be described as the more elegant counterpart to the RTX 5070 Ti GAMING OC 16G. It offers the same clock speeds, identical base dimensions, and a similar cooler, differing mainly in its external design and color scheme.
The card features a dual BIOS with two modes—Silent and OC. By default, the OC mode is active. The manufacturer-set power limits and clock speeds are identical on both BIOS versions. The advertised boost clock is increased from the reference 2452 MHz to 2588 MHz. In practice, the actual operating clock speeds under typical gaming loads are higher.
The BIOS versions differ mainly in the fan speed control based on temperature. At higher fan speeds, the card runs slightly cooler, consumes less power, and achieves marginally higher clock speeds, though the impact on performance is barely measurable. The difference is more in the range of fractions of a frame per second, which is why I recommend switching the card to silent mode, in which we will also conduct our testing.
In the quiet BIOS, the power limit is set to the reference 300 W, but you can increase it by 17% to 350 W. Alternatively, you can decrease it by 17% to 250 W. The recently released GPU-Z 2.63.0 already supports the new cards and displays all the relevant data. As with the MSI RTX 5070 Ti Vanguard SOC from the previous review, I’d like to point out that all three fans here have their own connectors for control and monitoring. Unlike cards with two or three fans connected via a splitter to a single connector, this allows you to monitor and adjust the speeds of all three fans individually, though they run at the same speed by default.
The older version 2.62.0, from which the earlier screenshots with the OC BIOS below were taken, did not yet display some of the values.
In addition to the standard monitoring data in GPU-Z, HWiNFO can extract a wealth of additional diagnostic information from the card.
The card comes packaged in a simple white box. The front features only the logo and branding consistent across all manufacturers’ GeForce cards. The back is also simpler, lacking the usual colorful images and descriptions of the technologies used, instead providing a basic list and a simple depiction of the card. Mentioned are the Windforce cooling, white design, and reinforced card structure.
The accessories include only brief installation manuals, a mounting bracket for securing the card to the motherboard mounting holes, and a power adapter converting three 8-pin connectors to a 12V-2×6.
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- Contents
- Introduction and parameters
- Cooler design, connectors
- Test setup
- Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
- Cyberpunk 2077
- F1 24
- 3DMark Port Royal, Blender
- Noise, GPU Clock, Temperatures, Fan Speed – Metro Exodus, BIOS Gaming
- GPU Clock, Temperatures, Fan Speed – Metro Exodus, BIOS silent
- GPU Clock, Temperatures, Fan Speed – F1 24, BIOS performance
- GPU Clock, Temperatures, Fan Speed – F1 24, BIOS silent
- Finding the Temperature Limit Using Minimum Fan Speed
- Closing summary
