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yazata

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Is the 5070 Ti enough for 4K gaming at high/ultra settings with ray tracing (I'm thinking of upgrading when the 60 series comes out)
 
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Depends on the game, but do you mean 4K native? Why would you do that? Upscaled from 1440p makes much more sense.
 
No. But if you're open to lower settings, turning RT off, and/or using DLSS, the 5070 Ti will be adequate.

If you want Ultra RT 4K gaming on the latest AAAs, only the RTX 5090 will deliver.
 
Maxing everything out is too ambitious. Especially if you want more than 60 FPS.

Some older titles like Cyberpunk 2077 with partial RT and some help of DLSS will work. More expensive titles like Lords of the Fallen and latest Assassin's Creed, not so much. You'll need to lower your settings even harder.

All in all, if you disable RT and enable DLSS in some titles you'll be fine. 5070 Ti is meant to max 1440p out, not 4K.
 
if you OC it, use DLSS balanced or performance then it's totally enough for high or medium settings. Not ultra, not at smooth FPS anyways.

That being said - you will probably have better options with the 60 series.
 
For the games that release in 18 months you're lucky to get 15 FPS with everything maxed out. By then 5070Ti is a low end card.
 
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For the games that release in 18 months you're lucky to get 15 FPS with everything maxed out. By then 5070Ti is a low end card.
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I'm reminded of tuning into a game release day settings test stream and immediately hearing "5080 is now a 1080p card."
 
I use DLSS and DLAA and play at 4K 60 with my 4070Ti, I would imagine 50 series shouldn't have too much of a problem..
 
Just comes down to expectations, I would not like a 70 class gpu at 4k but if you don't mind using aggressive upscaling it's fine.

Some of it will come down to how you feel about frame generation as well I don't like it unless the base framerate is at least 80fps preferable over 100fps and at that point I would rather not use it. If you plan on gaming on a 4k tv and are sitting 6-10 feet away and using a controller it's pretty good though.

6000 series might be early 2027 lol so depending on what you are using that could be a long wait maybe see what the super cards have to offer a stronger 5070 super with 18GB of vram could at least hold you over if the price is right it will be interesting what the 5070ti super looks like and if it will get 24GB of vram.

Dr. Dro said:
No. But if you're open to lower settings, turning RT off, and/or using DLSS, the 5070 Ti will be adequate.

If you want Ultra RT 4K gaming on the latest AAAs, only the RTX 5090 will deliver.
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Especially if the person want's it to still perform adequately 18-24 months from now. The downside of this generation being basically a refresh is most the lineup won't age as well as the 40 series did on top of nothing getting more vram outside of the 5090.

Although to be fair people waiting for 6000 series could just end up with another generation of 50 series like gains so that would be pretty painful to wait 18+ months for.
 
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This generation, I wanted to finally start playing all the games maxed on my 4K OLED. I fell for the prerelease hype where everybody was saying 5080 will be the 4090 (or better) and wanted to get it, then the reviews slated it, the price hike/shortage happened, and I eventually ended up with 5070Ti (via 9070XT).

So how is it doing? Well, I actually mostly play older games still - the likes of Fallout 4, AC Origins - Mirage, Outer Worlds, Tsushima, Forza Horizon 5. For these it will do fine (meaning 60-90 or more fps) in 4K without any compromises in settings and with extra mods applied too, with Quality upscaling enabled where necessary (Tsushima).

But I also tried some newer games or older performance hogs such as CP2077. This is where it depends on a game (all of them assuming Ultra settings unless stated otherwise):

CP2077 - (with PT, everything maxed out) - only possible with Frame Generation, but the lag/artifacting penalty is acceptable (imho, of course). @ FGx2 I'm at some okayish 60-90fps, and if you crank it up you can get more. That's where my older 4070 choked out and 9070XT was too ugly/messy (though 2.3 update maybe changed that)
Space Marine 2 - fine with DLSS Quality
Avowed - not too bad with DLSS Quality. Over 60fps, with some stutters probably down to UE5 witchery
Mindseye - plays very well with FG but the game is a turd
Clair Obscur - fine with DLSS Quality
Oblivion Remastered - my current holy grail game. It falters, delivering some 50-70fps depending on location, which is not good enough. Dropping some settings like DLSS Performance (ugly shimmer) Reflections or even Software Lumen helps a bit, but not all that much and the game gets too ugly. Luckily, FG works really well again - and I'm really sensitive about movement and lag in this game.

So the bottom line is, if you can accept DLSS Quality and sometimes FG, it’s not a bad choice. Especially considering that the only one which can do it without relying on FG is 5090, and even that card struggles in Oblivion. 5080 is too pricey and doesn't offer enough uplift to matter. 9070XT is a good solution for older games and some newer ones, but FSR/FM is still either inferior and/or not widespread enough.
 
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yazata said:
No not 4K native ,with DLSS and frame generation, as long as latency isn’t too high.
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Nobody can predict how much more demanding games will become 12-24 months from now but in most games it will be fine with DLSS which is quite good with the transformer model all the way down to the performance mode at 4k. My only issue with DLSS 4 is disocclusion artifacts are generally worse than DLSS3 and it's pretty obvious to me but others seem to be not to bothered by it.

The issue will be Path traced games which are started to pop up more frequently and UE5 games that use a lot of RT like Black Myth Wukong.

Something like CP2077 in the overdrive mode won't even hit 60fps at 4k with DLSS performance on a 5070ti and it's a pretty old game at this point so frame generation will feel like shite because it's going to lower the base framerate even further.

Frame generation needs to be used locally though because everyone has different sensitivity to latency and artifacts for me they are easy to spot even at over 100fps base frame rate for others they don't notice them with a base framerate of 50 so you really need to use it to know how much it will or will not bother you.
 
4K with DLSS at medium settings and no RT, than yes. The difference between low and ultra is small these days.
 
I play all my games at 4k ultra with dlss quality and FG to 2x or 3x WITH RT. Have 0 issues. Then again, I do not play the latest and greatest games because I think they all suck. I am fine with the games I play and those get me 120fps with those settings on my 120hz display. Totally fine and works awesome for me. Diablo 4 with everything maxed out and FG at 2x with dlss quality I max out my fps at 116. YMMV depending on the games you play.
 
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