Packaging

The Card

Visually, the ASUS RTX 5070 TUF OC follows the design theme of the company's previous TUF cards, and it also matches the RX 9070 TUF visuals exactly. On the back you get a high quality metal backplate with a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 33.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1512 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 63 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and two HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5070 features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. Unlike the bigger RTX 50 models, which have two, there is a single NVENC and NVDEC unit each.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which allows a maximum power draw of 600 W, but the board power limit is set much lower of course.


ASUS has installed an RGB lighting zone near the corner of the card.


This BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default performance BIOS and an optional "quiet" BIOS.

Teardown

ASUS made the fan assembly removable, so it's easy to replace a fan if one breaks in a few years.


The heatsink uses six heatpipes and provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects against damage during installation and handling.