Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards have been dropping back down to launch prices, and that includes the popular Asus brand. I’ve seen it’s budget “Prime” series cards back to MSRP for a little while now, but today that trend has extended to the next model up. Amazon is currently offering Amazon Prime members the Asus TUF RTX 5070 12GB graphics card for just $549 with free delivery. The Asus TUF is a generally higher quality card than the Asus Prime, featuring “military-grade” components and a more robust cooler. This particular model has also been binned for a guaranteed overclock.
Asus TUF GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Graphics Card for $549
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Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 performs comparably with the RTX 4070 Super. We wish there was a bigger generation improvement in raw performance, but the RTX 4070 Super was already an excellent card for 1080p and 1440p gaming. In any case, the RTX 4070 Super GPU has since been discontinued and is only readily available in the used market. The RTX 5070 also supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, and the performance gap widens in games that support this new technology , like Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Doom: The Dark Ages.
The Asus TUF model boasts a substantial 3.125-slot heatsink that’s significantly larger than the Asus Prime’s 2.5-slot heatsink, and it also uses higher quality fans. The TUF’s claim to fame is its use of “miltary-grade components,” specifically referring to the capacitors, chokes, and MOSFETs, which Asus claims help improve system stability. The model is overclocked to 2,542MHz in OC mode, or about a 100MHz improvement over the stock Asus Prime. Although that’s technically only a 3%-5% increase in performance, it also implies that these TUF graphics cards is binned to hit a specific performance tier and thus is (supposedly) better quality.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Graphics Card Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is complicated. It does what it says on the tin: play games at 1440p at a high frame rate. But the problem is that it doesn’t necessarily do that better than the RTX 4070 Super, or any other graphics card in this price range. It does add Multi Frame Generation, which is nice to have for anyone with a high-refresh monitor, but that alone isn’t worth the upgrade.”
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