I knew RTX 5070 was deceive me. Desired next to the extravagant stupidity of Deux-Niss RTX 5090CE £ 539 / $ 549 graphics card looked like a very pleasant affair, still offering DLSS 4 And the multi-frame generation like its larger and more expensive brothers. Also, an upgrade to the RTX 4070 SuperA GPU who could manage 4K without looking too moved in a 1080p premium platform. Tragically, however, the RTX 5070 breaks a sacred alliance, a mutual understanding between PC owners and the manufacturers of parts that will be held strong for decades: if you buy a new version of something, it should be faster than the old version of this thing. Look beyond the MFG illusion, and far too often, this is not the case.
RIDING through specifications does not present itself clear reasons for this lack of performance gain; The number of Cuda nuclei from RTX 5070 arrives at 6144, simply putting it between the RTX 4070 (5888) and the RTX 4070 Super (7168), but the basic clock and boost speeds have been increased to compensate. VRAM, on the other hand, remains at 12 GB, but with a GDDR6X passage to GDDR7, it gives a lot more bandwidth. Then there is the power rating, that the edition of the delayed founders and this triple fan Pny GeForce RTX 5070 OC take place at 250W – 50W more than a RTX 4070 input level. It seems and sounds, like a decent generational update.
And yet …
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Review: 4K benchmarks
While the RTX 5070 cuts as a 4K competitor, exceeding 60 images per second in most Cyberpunk 2077. Elsewhere, he only surpasses the RTX 4070 super by a handful of frames to one figure per second, and several times loses at the RTX 4070 Ti not superb.
Obviously, very few potential buyers will upgrade directly from the RTX 4070 Super from last year to RTX 5070, and the last model makes at least a fleshy improvement on the RTX 3070. The problem is that this improvement has already been brought to the latest generation, and for prices – even if you have the chance to Find an RTX 5070 in stock Below £ 600 – probably drops much faster, especially with regard to the secondary market.
It is also worth responding to a specific complaint, made by Nvidia during its original announcement of the RTX 50 series, that the RTX 5070 offers “RTX 4090 Performance “with MFG. It is, according to the generous Alan Wake 2It is not equal or faster than the RTX 4090 if you refuse the old GPU its own tools. Indeed, it only needs the 2x generation 2x 2x of DLSS 3 for an average of 82fps on otherwise identical parameters. In short, the only way in which the RTX 5070 really evolves at the same rate as the RTX 4090 is if they are in the same delivery van.
You can always consider the MFG as the RTX 5070 festival tour, although 4k in particular, it is not as much a manufacturer of difference as on more burl cards like the RTX 5070 Ti And RTX 5080. In Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2, the RTX 4070 joins its competitors in the 40 series by being unable to produce playable tracing performance on DLSS quality; In fact, in the latter, it is closely the slowest in the lot. Consequently, when 4x MFG comes into play, it produces a higher number in a frame counter but does not help the games to be operated and more smooth or more reactive than on the 40 limited DLSS 3 models. Regarding your PC, it still only works 26 / 21FPS, and all the frames generated by AI in the world will not get rid of the slow sensation that the aim and control of the camera will undergo under these conditions.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Review: 1440p benchmarks
1440P is a more comfortable environment for RTX 5070 Frame Gen Tech technology, although its too radical performance problems remain. If anything, it is more Building here, because the highest francs make even more difficult to make a difference in naked eyes between this and its predecessors.
In Assassin’s Creed MirageThe RTX 4070 Super ends even in advance, would be only one frame, while even the games in which RTX 5070 is relatively well (Cyberpunk 2077, F1 24) see only an increase of approximately 10%. There is a simultaneous gap with the RTX 5070 TI, suggesting that you do not need to stretch up to the TI version for Quad Quad HD, and again, anyone who motivates the RTX 3070 will benefit from a significant speed boost. However, these advantages could apply to the RTX 4070 Super as much as the RTX 5070.
The same cannot be said, in all justice, for the performance of the executive generation. Although these tests suggest that the RTX 5070 is actually slightly worse to treat the path / tracing of the full rays that these annoying RTX 40 GPUs, unlike 4K, it is capable of producing enough pre-generation frames to support a viable 4x MFG application.
I am not saying that it is an adequate replacement for frames traditionally rendered, but at least at this resolution, you can somehow see where Nvidia comes from. Savored by the need to compensate for fractures of less than 3 feet of bif, the generation of frame is free to simply shine the visual sweetness of games already adequately, as it should be.
However, it is also difficult not to look in these RTX 5070 TI and RTX 5080 bars, wondering why the standard RTX 5070 could not do a little more in the conventional rendering service.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Review: 1080p benchmarks
The drop to an even less demanding screen is not much to increase the value proposition of the RTX 5070. Again, it is haunted by the ghosts of the past XX70 GPUs, especially in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, where it repeats its embarrassing loss. He wins some additional executives on the RTX 4070 Super in Shadow of the Tomb RaiderBut it already works so quickly that you would need a 300 Hz monitor and inhuman observation skills to perceive them in action.
This means that we have to return to the world of maximum lighting effects and the generation of AI frame in search of a consolation price. As at 1440p, the RTX 5070 inexplicably starts worse than the RTX 4070 Super when the path is involved, although in the two games, there is always a base solid enough to apply 4x MFG without input shift your PC inside the cheat.
You will have to forgive me for not sharing these results with the kind of sparkling enthusiasm that multicolored bar graphics deserve. I know that it is not as if the RTX 5070 had regressed to the point that it is a bad GPU in the general sense – get it to the RRP, as this PNY model costs, and it is always a fine multi -discipline graphics card which will comfortably play everything that is outside the most brutalizing 4K settings. And what I said earlier, about the RTX 4070 super cheaper faster? Reader, I’m afraid that it is a conjecture. Currently, these are still on sale in the range of £ 600 to 700, and although many partners of the RTX 5070 board of directors surely fill the same space, if these two GPUs cost the same thing, there is no imperative reason to stay with the old. There may be an argument in favor of the energy efficiency of the RTX 4070 Super – I measured it with a peak at 219W during my tests, against 251W on the RTX 5070 – but for all its shortcomings, I prefer to have an MFG rather than a saving of 30W.
Even so, it is also quite fair and reasonable to expect a kind of significant and not entirely compatible improvement of the AI of each new generation. The RTX 5070 simply does not deliver, and I am honestly a little worried that if we simply raise the shoulders and accept this, the generation of the frame will be really the only way that future GPUs take the trouble to upgrade the “performances”. Even when, as shown in the results of the 4K path tracing this card, such an approach is inadequate when the side of the industry games continues to ask for more and more your equipment.
This examination is based on a retail unit provided by the manufacturer.