GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Power Consumption and Cost

300 W Total Graphics Power — about 255 W sustained in a real game, and 375 W from the wall with the rest of the machine. NVIDIA suggests a 750 W supply. 16 GB VRAM, RTX 50, 2025.

Running a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

$136 a year in electricity

System draw: 375 W
Per month: $11
Card alone / yr: $79
Suggested PSU: 750 W

Gaming hours
Idle hours

Where the watts go

Power and running cost breakdown for a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Item	Power	Per year	Cost / year
Gaming hours	375 W	547.5 kWh	$106
Idle hours	70 W	153.3 kWh	$30
Whole machine	—	700.8 kWh	$136
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti alone	255 W	405.2 kWh	$79

What 300 W means for this card

At the 85% load these figures assume, a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti draws about 255 W in a game, and a machine built around it about 375 W from the wall. At California's average electricity price that comes to $243 a year, of which the card itself accounts for $141.

What stands out about the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

A generation on from the RTX 4070 Ti.
Against the RTX 4070 Ti, a generation earlier: 15 W more rated power (300 W against 285 W), 4 GB more memory (16 GB against 12 GB) and about $4 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 16 GB holds models up to Qwen2.5 14B. The local-LLM page for the RTX 5070 Ti covers every model at every quantisation and context length.

Running cost by state

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti running cost in every US state
State	Cents / kWh	Per month	Per year whole machine	Card alone
Nevada	13.11	$8	$92	$53
Nebraska	13.25	$8	$93	$54
Utah	13.37	$8	$94	$54
Louisiana	13.49	$8	$95	$55
Tennessee	14.07	$8	$99	$57
Arkansas	14.12	$8	$99	$57
North Dakota	14.12	$8	$99	$57
Kentucky	14.26	$8	$100	$58
Oklahoma	14.33	$8	$100	$58
Idaho	14.37	$8	$101	$58
North Carolina	14.74	$9	$103	$60
Mississippi	14.88	$9	$104	$60
Washington	14.91	$9	$104	$60
New Mexico	15.06	$9	$106	$61
Florida	15.10	$9	$106	$61
Montana	15.14	$9	$106	$61
Arizona	15.18	$9	$106	$62
Wyoming	15.24	$9	$107	$62
South Dakota	15.36	$9	$108	$62
West Virginia	15.45	$9	$108	$63
South Carolina	15.55	$9	$109	$63
Kansas	15.71	$9	$110	$64
Iowa	15.93	$9	$112	$65
Texas	15.94	$9	$112	$65
Missouri	16.22	$9	$114	$66
Oregon	16.32	$10	$114	$66
Georgia	16.36	$10	$115	$66
Alabama	16.40	$10	$115	$66
Colorado	17.13	$10	$120	$69
Virginia	17.22	$10	$121	$70
Indiana	17.51	$10	$123	$71
Minnesota	17.52	$10	$123	$71
Ohio	19.19	$11	$134	$78
Delaware	19.29	$11	$135	$78
Wisconsin	19.56	$11	$137	$79
Illinois	19.89	$12	$139	$81
Pennsylvania	21.73	$13	$152	$88
Maryland	21.84	$13	$153	$88
Michigan	22.99	$13	$161	$93
Connecticut	24.32	$14	$170	$99
District of Columbia	24.39	$14	$171	$99
Vermont	24.44	$14	$171	$99
New Jersey	24.95	$15	$175	$101
New Hampshire	27.01	$16	$189	$109
Alaska	28.21	$16	$198	$114
Rhode Island	29.23	$17	$205	$118
New York	29.49	$17	$207	$119
Maine	29.59	$17	$207	$120
Massachusetts	29.61	$17	$208	$120
California	34.74	$20	$243	$141
Hawaii	52.72	$31	$369	$214

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	250 W	650 W	$124	$222
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 Ti

NVIDIA suggests a 750 W power supply. With any of the 26 processors in the PSU calculator, a build with this card needs 750 W.

Frequently asked questions

How much power does the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti use?

Its Total Graphics Power is 300 W, which is the limit rather than the average. At a realistic 85% sustained load a demanding game pulls around 255 W from the card, and roughly 375 W from the wall once the rest of the machine is counted. NVIDIA recommends a 750 W power supply.

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

At the US average of 19.42 cents per kWh, 4 hours of gaming and 6 idle hours a day works out at about $243 a year for the whole machine in California, $92 in Nevada and $369 in Hawaii. The card's own share of that is roughly $141.

What power supply does a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti need?

NVIDIA recommends 750 W. The card plus a mainstream system peaks around 420 W, so that recommendation leaves about 330 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 Ti it takes 21.4 idle hours to cost as much as 4 hours of gaming — more than fits in a day, so on this card gaming always dominates.

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