Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Solid Review
Introduction
Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Solid is the company’s new value orientated custom-design graphics card based on the RTX 5070. The Solid series makes its entry with the RTX 50-series Blackwell generation. It covers all the essentials that make the Zotac brand, such as its design scheme, and a focus on low noise. The company segments this from its more premium AMP and AMP Extreme lines that come with factory overclocks and RGB LED lighting. The Zotac RTX 5070 Solid does this without coming across as compromising on aesthetics. The GeForce RTX 5070 is designed for maxed out gameplay at 1440p, including with ray tracing and path tracing. It also introduces the latest features being introduced with the Blackwell graphics architecture, such as Neural Rendering, DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, and ray tracing with Mega Geometry.
The Blackwell architecture introduces a potentially revolutionary concept for consumer 3D graphics, called Neural Rendering, where a generative AI model running in tandem with the game generates photorealistic objects that are combined with a conventional raster 3D graphics much in the same way as ray traced objects. You already know the incredible power of generative AI and can guess where this is going. Neural Rendering taps into the AI Management Processor (AMP), a hardware scheduler being introduced with Blackwell, which lets the GPU utilize its resources for AI acceleration and graphics rendering in tandem.
DLSS 4 introduces new transformer AI models replacing older convoluted neural networks based ones, which vastly improve image quality at every performance tier. While DLSS 4 upscaling is compatible with older RTX 40-series and RTX 30-series, the RTX 50-series gets the exclusive Multi Frame Generation feature, which lets the GPU utilize AI to draw up to three frames following every conventionally rendered one, for an effective quadrupling in frame-rates. This feature relies on hardware flip-metering, a new component of the display engine of Blackwell.
The Blackwell graphics architecture improves in all areas of the GPU despite the chips themselves being built on the same NVIDIA 4N foundry node as the older RTX 40-series Ada generation. The new CUDA cores come with increased IPC and support for Neural Rendering and shader execution reordering that’s aware of Neural shaders. The new generation RT cores come with generational improvements to the ray intersection performance, further lowering the cost of ray tracing on your frame rates, it also comes with preparation for Mega Geometry, a feature with which the geometric detail of ray traced objects can be significantly increased (think what tessellation did to poly counts in raster graphics).
The GeForce RTX 5070 is based on the new GB205 silicon, which it nearly maxes out, enabling 48 out of 50 SM (streaming multiprocessors) physically present, which amount to 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensor cores, 48 RT cores, 192 TMUs, and the chip’s full complement of 80 ROPs. It also gets the chip’s full 48 MB of L2 cache, which cushions the memory sub-system. You get 12 GB of 28 Gbps GDDR7 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface, yielding an impressive 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA’s switch to GDDR7 is timed well given its pivot to Neural Rendering, and the memory-intensive nature of AI acceleration workloads. NVIDIA also implements certain other new standards, such as a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 host interface, ATX 3.1 (PCIe 5.1 CEM) power architecture, and support for the newer 12V-2×6 power connector.
The Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Solid comes with NVIDIA reference clock speeds of 2325 MHz base, 2512 MHz boost, and 28 Gbps (GDDR7-effective) memory. The new IceStorm 2.0 cooling solution by Zotac comes with a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink with a heatpipe direct-touch base, and a trio of BladeLink fans ventilating it. Much of the airflow from the third fan flows through the heatsink and out the backplate through cutouts. While there’s no serious RGB bling on this card, there’s still an RGB illuminated Zotac Gaming logo. Zotac is pricing the RTX 5070 Solid very close to NVIDIA’s $550 baseline price, the card is going for $570.
| Price | Cores | ROPs | Core Clock |
Boost Clock |
Memory Clock |
GPU | Transistors | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4070 | $500 | 5888 | 64 | 1920 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7800 XT | $470 | 3840 | 96 | 2124 MHz | 2430 MHz | 2425 MHz | Navi 32 | 28100M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 4070 Super | $600 | 7168 | 80 | 1980 MHz | 2475 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RX 7900 GRE | $550 | 5120 | 160 | 1880 MHz | 2245 MHz | 2250 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti | $700 | 7680 | 80 | 2310 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD104 | 35800M | 12 GB, GDDR6X, 192-bit |
| RTX 5070 | $550 | 6144 | 80 | 2325 MHz | 2512 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB205 | 31100M | 12 GB, GDDR7, 192-bit |
| Zotac RTX 5070 Solid | $570 | 6144 | 80 | 2325 MHz | 2512 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB205 | 31100M | 12 GB, GDDR7, 192-bit |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | $750 | 8448 | 96 | 2340 MHz | 2610 MHz | 1313 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XT | $620 | 5376 | 192 | 2000 MHz | 2400 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 20 GB, GDDR6, 320-bit |
| RX 9070 | $550 | 3584 | 128 | 2070 MHz | 2520 MHz | 2518 MHz | Navi 48 | 53900M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RX 9070 XT | $615 | 4096 | 128 | 2400 MHz | 2970 MHz | 2518 MHz | Navi 48 | 53900M | 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $750 | 8960 | 96 | 2295 MHz | 2452 MHz | 1750 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |
| RX 7900 XTX | $750 | 6144 | 192 | 2300 MHz | 2500 MHz | 2500 MHz | Navi 31 | 57700M | 24 GB, GDDR6, 384-bit |
| RTX 4080 | $850 | 9728 | 112 | 2205 MHz | 2505 MHz | 1400 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RTX 4080 Super | $1000 | 10240 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2550 MHz | 1438 MHz | AD103 | 45900M | 16 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit |
| RTX 5080 | $1000 | 10752 | 112 | 2295 MHz | 2617 MHz | 1875 MHz | GB203 | 45600M | 16 GB, GDDR7, 256-bit |
