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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: definitely not a $549 RTX 4090

There’s an AMD cloud hanging over the RTX 5070.

www.theverge.com

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Review - IGN

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The Nvidia RTX 5070 is even more disappointing than I expected

Nvidia's RTX 5070 is gunning for the 1440p crown, but it fails to stand out from the half dozen other options already available around $550.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition Review – When AI has to help out on the finish line|igor´sLAB

Yes, what have we here? With the GeForce RTX 5070 FE, NVIDIA has now launched a new graphics card on the market that leaves me somewhat perplexed in many respects. I'm deliberately putting this up front, because you have to read today's review carefully…

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At 1440p

• 5070 is 0.81x Performance of 5070 Ti
• 5070 is 0.91x Performance of 4070 Ti Super
• 5070 is 0.97x Performance of 4070 Ti
• 5070 is 1.05x Faster than 4070 Super
• 5070 is 1.22x Faster than 4070
• 5070 is 1.55x Faster than 2080 Ti and 3070
• 5070 is 1.61x faster vs 4060 Ti 16GB
• 5070 is 1.78x Faster vs 3060 Ti
• 5070 is 2.35x Faster vs 3060

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Pros & Cons

• Cool and quiet Founder's Edition design
• Over 20% faster than an RTX 4070
• DLSS 4 can multiply your frame rate
• Good pricing (at MSRP)
• Fantastic overclocking potential
• Extremely energy-efficient
• Idle fan-stop
• Compact dual slot design
• Support for HDMI 2.1 & DisplayPort 2.1
• PCI-Express 5.0
• Good video encode/decode hardware acceleration support

Cons:

• Actual market pricing will be much higher than MSRP
• Gen-over-gen improvement not that impressive (except for multi-frame generation)
• Fans could be quieter
• 12 GB VRAM not enough for 4K + RT + Frame Gen in some titles
• Limited supply expected
• Memory overclocking artificially limited by the driver
• 35% worse than the 4090

- The Verge + TechPowerUp

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[winjer]

"Nvidia is selling lies and reviewers shouldn't be afraid to mince words, about it. That is precisely, what the RTX 5070 is."

 

[rsouzadk]

Now it is the time for amd and 9070XT delivers both in price and performance.

 

[Salz01]

These cards are huge mistakes… wtf is going on.

 

[Gen.Grievous]

I wouldn't call 20% performance over previous gen a pro to be honest. You also need to disregard the 4070 Super for this to work out and that card was available last year for less than the 5070.

 

[T4keD0wN]

its not that bad hardware-wise compared to the 4070. These cards will end up being sold at 4090 msrp in real life, but wheres my 4090 performance fancy leather jacket man?

 

[winjer]

These cards are huge mistakes… wtf is going on.

Nvidia got 90% of the market and now thinks they can screw consumers as much as they want.

 

[Zathalus]

It's basically a 4070 Super with a $50 price drop, slightly enhanced media engine, and MFG. Anyone in this price range should probably just get the 9070/9070 XT.

 

[Gaiff]

lmao, Lackwell is a complete fiasco. Jesus Christ.

Same performance as an RTX 4070. We're at the point where x70 cards barely get a 20% uplift gen-on-gen. Even the 2070 was 35% faster than the 1070 and 14% faster than the 1070 Ti. It also boasted okay RT performance and DLSS.

Lackwell is without a doubt the worst GPU generation in a long time. It makes Turing look like Pascal.

 

[ValiantInstance]

AMD needs to be the only choice this gen for anyone who doesn't want to sell a kidney to buy a 4 figure card. They will never have a better chance.

 

[Magic Carpet]

If I can find one I'll pick one up. But I'm not spending time searching. My 4070 still hanging in there.

 

[FingerBang]

What a piece of shit. Same performance as 4070S for a little discount? Why, Nvidia? Why didn't you just keep producing the 4000 series instead of going forward with this joke of a launch?

 

[ResilientBanana]

AMD needs to be the only choice this gen for anyone who doesn't want to sell a kidney to buy a 4 figure card. They will never have a better chance.

AMD's price is within $100 difference. It's not dramatic.

 

[winjer]

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Pros & Cons

• Cool and quiet Founder's Edition design
• Over 20% faster than an RTX 4070
• DLSS 4 can multiply your frame rate
• Good pricing (at MSRP)
• Fantastic overclocking potential
• Extremely energy-efficient
• Idle fan-stop
• Compact dual slot design
• Support for HDMI 2.1 & DisplayPort 2.1
• PCI-Express 5.0
• Good video encode/decode hardware acceleration support

Sorry, but several of those things are not Pros.

The Founder Edition cooler sends a ton of hot air on top of the CPU and memory. And this can become a problem in the summer, especially due to memory being very sensitive to temperature.
20% faster than the previous gen is a terrible improvement. Probably the worst ever in a gen over gen.
Fake frames have a ton of issues, including latency and image artifacts. The more fake frames it generates, the worst it gets.
Considering the lack of vram, even 550$ is a lot to ask for this GPU. And if we look at the die size, this should be a 5060.
PCI-e Gen5 is useless even on an RTX5090. Much more useless for a 5070.

 

[owandeseis]

Last year you could find a 4070 Super for even under 600€, now this is releasing at 669€, but no one will be able to find it for less than 700€ for months probably.

Performance per price was better last year with the series 4000 than it will be this year with the new gen (at least for now), crazy.

Wonder how will the 9070 compare to this.

 

[SolidQ]

Steve standing on roof

 

[Skifi28]

Wow, the 4090 killer really delivered.

 

[ResilientBanana]

It does 10 to 20 frames more than the 4070.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Last year you could find a 4070 Super for even under 600€, now this is releasing at 669€, but no one will be able to find it for less than 700€ for months probably.

Performance per price was better last year with the series 4000 than it will be this year with the new gen (at least for now), crazy.

Wonder how will the 9070 compare to this.

The regular 9070 should be a bit faster.

 

[Luipadre]

What a trash nvidia gen. Im praying for AMD tomorrow, im ready to jump ship

 

[Gubaldo]

As expected

 

[Schmendrick]

 

[SolidQ]

for Real 5070 = 4090

 

[YCoCg]

Holy shit, it uses MORE power than a 4070 Super but performs worse on average, how did they fuck up this bad

 

[mèx]

Basically a scam. What a piece of shit hardware, it's not even worth the raw material used to make it, let alone 550$.

 

[GHG]

Other than to force raised prices, why does this generation of cards even exist?

 

[CLW]

Doesn't matter Nvidia lackies will buy them up

 

[GreatnessRD]

People still gonna buy this garbage, lmao

 

[64gigabyteram]

lmao, Lackwell is a complete fiasco. Jesus Christ.

Same performance as an RTX 4070. We're at the point where x70 cards barely get a 20% uplift gen-on-gen. Even the 2070 was 35% faster than the 1070 and 14% faster than the 1070 Ti. It also boasted okay RT performance and DLSS.

Lackwell is without a doubt the worst GPU generation in a long time. It makes Turing look like Pascal.

You should have posted the Indiana Jones screencap. 13fps due to 12gb VRAM.

It's the 8gb 3070 all over again.
We are already at a point where even 12gb is not enough for modern games. AMD should really reconsider cancelling that 32gb 9070 XTX.

 

[Skifi28]

Other than to force raised prices, why does this generation of cards even exist?

It's an Nvidia test to see how far they can push gamers. I hope it's not working, but it's a fool's hope.

 

[CLW]

If I can find one I'll pick one up. But I'm not spending time searching. My 4070 still hanging in there.

 

[adamsapple]

You should have posted the Indiana Jones screencap. 13fps due to 12gb VRAM.

It's the 8gb 3070 all over again.
We are already at a point where even 12gb is not enough for modern games. AMD should really reconsider cancelling that 32gb 9070 XTX.

 

[Idleyes]

This would be like the PlayStation 4 PRO outperforming the Base PlayStation 5. Fucking ridiculous.

 

[64gigabyteram]

ill give you this adam

at this point buying an Xbox Series X is probably a smarter choice than buying any of the 50 series. JFC

 

[xenosys]

"We can give you 4090 performance."

No, you can't.

 

[yamaci17]

I'm happy with my 3070
I hope 6070 brings some decent improvements so I can build a PC around it eventually. 4070 and 5070 are not worth it for me

 

[Radical_3d]

 

[adamsapple]

ill give you this adam

at this point buying an Xbox Series X is probably a smarter choice than buying any of the 50 series. JFC

The AMD prices are really competitive, let's see how those cards turn out.

 

[Radical_3d]

for Real 5070 = 4090

 

[newtypepilot]

nvidia
lies

you dont' say LMAO

 

[64gigabyteram]

The AMD prices are really competitive, let's see how those cards turn out.

9070 XT is rumored to be competitive with 4070 ti super in RT. if the 9070 isnt much slower than the XT in RT, AMD will for the first time have a product at similar value and SKU that beats Nvidia in RT

 

[Celcius]

Blackwell is a joke, yikes

 

[Bloody Crow of Cainhurst]

PS5 Pro dominance continues

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Any 5070's with - ROP count yet?

 

[Gubaldo]

Never believe his lies

 

[Topher]

What a joke

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Other than to force raised prices, why does this generation of cards even exist?

Laptops?

 

[Gubaldo]

this trash is not worth more than 350

 

[GHG]

Laptops?

Huh?

Firstly I'm talking about the desktop series if cards.

Secondly, there haven't been any efficiency gains as a result of this new generation.

 

[MMaRsu]

So Im not upgrading my 3070 to a 5070