There’s been a variety of skepticism about Jensen Huang’s declare that the brand new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is as quick because the RTX 4090, however Nvidia simply gave me the prospect to strive the 2 playing cards side-by-side to see for myself, and the result’s astonishing. In Marvel Rivals, the RTX 5070 doesn’t simply match the RTX 4090, it truly beats it. Is there a catch? Why, after all there may be.
The key behind the Nvidia RTX 5070 squaring as much as the present finest graphics card isn’t that the previous has extra GPU horsepower, however slightly that its new Tensor cores assist Nvidia DLSS 4. Particularly, using multi body era means the RTX 5070 can generate not simply alternate frames with AI, however as much as three further frames between a pair of rendered frames. We are able to argue till the cows come dwelling about whether or not that is dishonest or not, however I genuinely struggled to inform the distinction between the 2 check programs I attempted at CES by way of picture high quality and smoothness.
The 2 check rigs have been arrange in order that each of them have been working the sport maxed out at 4K with the very best degree of DLSS supported by every GPU. This implies the one distinction between the 2 programs by way of setup is that the RTX 5070 was working the sport with multi body gen, whereas the RTX 4090 was utilizing commonplace body gen.
Constantly, the RTX 4090 system hovered round 180fps, whereas the RTX 5070 system ran at round 240fps – there was by no means a time when the RTX 5070 was slower than the 4090. You possibly can see this within the picture under, the place the RTX 4090 system on the left is working at 186fps, and the RTX 5070 rig on the correct is hitting 248fps.
Nevertheless, Nvidia additionally pressured that Marvel Rivals is an outlier right here, and in most video games, the 2 GPUs are degree by way of efficiency (so long as they assist multi body gen) – it’s simply that Marvel Rivals responds notably properly to border era.
In motion, I truthfully couldn’t inform the distinction between the 2 programs, and I performed the sport for a number of minutes on each of them. No matter magic Nvidia has labored with multi body gen (and we’ll be capable to speak extra about that at a later date), it really works surprisingly properly, at the least on this title. The sport was clean and responsive, and I couldn’t see any notable glitches on the RTX 5070 system. This $549 GPU can genuinely provide a 4090-level expertise in a sport that’s properly optimized for it.
And therein lies the catch. If a sport doesn’t assist multi body gen, then the RTX 4090 shall be considerably sooner than the RTX 5070, because the underlying GPU has a lot extra uncooked horsepower. It additionally has twice as a lot VRAM accessible, with the RTX 5070’s meager 12GB locking it out of a few of the excessive settings you may allow on the RTX 4090 at 4K, even should you allow body gen.
It’s a formidable demo, although. With the correct setup and the correct video games, this $549 GPU can genuinely sq. as much as Nvidia’s earlier $1,599 flagship. If sufficient video games find yourself supporting multi body gen in DLSS 4, and implement it properly, the RTX 5070 appears set to take the perfect graphics card award within the mid-range class.
The RTX 5070 launch date is developing quickly, and we’re hoping to spend so much extra time testing it over the approaching weeks. It’s also possible to learn our RTX 5090 information to see what Nvidia has in retailer on the top-end of the gaming GPU market.
