Packaging

The Card

NVIDIA's RTX 5070 comes with a refreshed Founders Edition design theme that matches the other cards like RTX 5090 exactly. It's instantly recognizable that this is a FE card, but there have been small aesthetics tweaks, like more smooth corners etc. Also note that both sides of the back now have cutouts for air to flow though.


Dimensions of the card are 24.5 x 11.5 cm, and it weighs 1101 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 40 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and a 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. NVIDIA has improved the location of the adapter, and it's recessed now and comes out at an angle. In the box you'll find an adapter cable from dual 8-pin.


There is no lighting on the RTX 5070 Founders Edition.

Teardown

NVIDIA's FE cooler uses four heatpipes. The heatsink provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.

This is a much simpler cooling design than on the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090, which used liquid metal and a vapor-chamber.