GeForce RTX 5070 Power Consumption and Cost

250 W Total Graphics Power — about 213 W sustained in a real game, and 333 W from the wall with the rest of the machine. NVIDIA suggests a 650 W supply. 12 GB VRAM, RTX 50, 2025.

Running a GeForce RTX 5070

$124 a year in electricity

System draw: 333 W
Per month: $10
Card alone / yr: $67
Suggested PSU: 650 W

Gaming hours
Idle hours

Where the watts go

Power and running cost breakdown for a GeForce RTX 5070
Item	Power	Per year	Cost / year
Gaming hours	333 W	485.5 kWh	$94
Idle hours	70 W	153.3 kWh	$30
Whole machine	—	638.8 kWh	$124
GeForce RTX 5070 alone	213 W	343.1 kWh	$67

What 250 W means for this card

At the 85% load these figures assume, a GeForce RTX 5070 draws about 213 W in a game, and a machine built around it about 333 W from the wall. At California's average electricity price that comes to $222 a year, of which the card itself accounts for $119.

What stands out about the GeForce RTX 5070

A generation on from the RTX 4070.
Against the RTX 4070, a generation earlier: 50 W more rated power (250 W against 200 W), the same 12 GB of memory and about $12 more a year to run at the US average.
Room for 11 of the 20 open models in the local-LLM dataset.
With Q4_K_M weights and an 8K context, its 12 GB holds models up to Qwen2.5 14B. The local-LLM page for the RTX 5070 covers every model at every quantisation and context length.
Some builds need more than the 650 W supply NVIDIA suggests.
Paired with the Core i9-14900K, the whole build calls for 700 W; 10 of the 26 processors in the RTX 5070 PSU table take the requirement above 650 W.

Running cost by state

GeForce RTX 5070 running cost in every US state
State	Cents / kWh	Per month	Per year whole machine	Card alone
Nevada	13.11	$7	$84	$45
Nebraska	13.25	$7	$85	$45
Utah	13.37	$7	$85	$46
Louisiana	13.49	$7	$86	$46
Tennessee	14.07	$8	$90	$48
Arkansas	14.12	$8	$90	$48
North Dakota	14.12	$8	$90	$48
Kentucky	14.26	$8	$91	$49
Oklahoma	14.33	$8	$92	$49
Idaho	14.37	$8	$92	$49
North Carolina	14.74	$8	$94	$51
Mississippi	14.88	$8	$95	$51
Washington	14.91	$8	$95	$51
New Mexico	15.06	$8	$96	$52
Florida	15.10	$8	$96	$52
Montana	15.14	$8	$97	$52
Arizona	15.18	$8	$97	$52
Wyoming	15.24	$8	$97	$52
South Dakota	15.36	$8	$98	$53
West Virginia	15.45	$8	$99	$53
South Carolina	15.55	$8	$99	$53
Kansas	15.71	$8	$100	$54
Iowa	15.93	$8	$102	$55
Texas	15.94	$8	$102	$55
Missouri	16.22	$9	$104	$56
Oregon	16.32	$9	$104	$56
Georgia	16.36	$9	$105	$56
Alabama	16.40	$9	$105	$56
Colorado	17.13	$9	$109	$59
Virginia	17.22	$9	$110	$59
Indiana	17.51	$9	$112	$60
Minnesota	17.52	$9	$112	$60
Ohio	19.19	$10	$123	$66
Delaware	19.29	$10	$123	$66
Wisconsin	19.56	$10	$125	$67
Illinois	19.89	$11	$127	$68
Pennsylvania	21.73	$12	$139	$75
Maryland	21.84	$12	$140	$75
Michigan	22.99	$12	$147	$79
Connecticut	24.32	$13	$155	$83
District of Columbia	24.39	$13	$156	$84
Vermont	24.44	$13	$156	$84
New Jersey	24.95	$13	$159	$86
New Hampshire	27.01	$14	$173	$93
Alaska	28.21	$15	$180	$97
Rhode Island	29.23	$16	$187	$100
New York	29.49	$16	$188	$101
Maine	29.59	$16	$189	$102
Massachusetts	29.61	$16	$189	$102
California	34.74	$19	$222	$119
Hawaii	52.72	$28	$337	$181

4 h gaming and 6 h idle a day, at 85% load with 120 W of system overhead.

The rest of the RTX 50 range

Other RTX 50 cards compared
Card	TGP	Suggested PSU	Per year US average	In California
GeForce RTX 5090	575 W	1000 W	$202	$362
GeForce RTX 5080	360 W	850 W	$151	$269
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti	300 W	750 W	$136	$243
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti	180 W	600 W	$107	$192
GeForce RTX 5060	145 W	550 W	$99	$177
GeForce RTX 5050	130 W	550 W	$95	$170

Building around the GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA suggests a 650 W power supply. Across the 26 processors in the PSU calculator, a build with this card needs 650 W with the Ryzen 5 9600X and up to 700 W with the Core i9-14900K.

Frequently asked questions

How much power does the GeForce RTX 5070 use?

Its Total Graphics Power is 250 W, which is the limit rather than the average. At a realistic 85% sustained load a demanding game pulls around 213 W from the card, and roughly 333 W from the wall once the rest of the machine is counted. NVIDIA recommends a 650 W power supply.

How much does it cost to run a GeForce RTX 5070?

At the US average of 19.42 cents per kWh, 4 hours of gaming and 6 idle hours a day works out at about $222 a year for the whole machine in California, $84 in Nevada and $337 in Hawaii. The card's own share of that is roughly $119.

What power supply does a GeForce RTX 5070 need?

NVIDIA recommends 650 W. The card plus a mainstream system peaks around 370 W, so that recommendation leaves about 280 W of headroom — deliberate, because transient spikes on modern cards briefly exceed the rated limit.

Do idle hours matter?

More than most people expect. A PC left on but not gaming still draws roughly 70 W whatever card is installed, so the idle bill is flat while the gaming one is not. Over 6 hours a day that is $53 a year in California. On a GeForce RTX 5070 it takes 19.0 idle hours to cost as much as 4 hours of gaming, which a machine left on around the clock passes comfortably.

Power figures: nvidia.com GeForce specifications (Total Graphics Power). Electricity: EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, residential, June 2026.

Estimates for informational purposes only. Total Graphics Power is a power limit, not an average: real draw depends on the game, resolution, frame cap, board partner design and any factory overclock. Electricity prices are state residential averages and your tariff will differ.

Data on this page last verified 26 August 2026. How these figures are calculated