Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: Asus Prime OC benchmarked

Jensen Huang made a startling declare in regards to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 when he paraded its skills at CES in January 2025. This $549 gaming GPU, stated Huang, was as quick because the mighty RTX 4090, due to the magic of Nvidia’s new multi body gen tech with DLSS 4. There have been echoes of when the RTX 3070 was genuinely as quick because the RTX 2080 Ti when it got here out, however this time it’s all all the way down to AI wizardry relatively than uncooked rendering energy.

Nvidia has guess the home on AI for its present technology of RTX 5000 GPUs, and the shortage of competitors had undoubtedly helped it to this point. In our RTX 5090 evaluation, we discovered a GPU that could be extraordinarily costly and power-hungry however continues to be finally the perfect graphics card you should purchase, for those who can afford it and assuming you could find 5090 inventory. The state of affairs is much less clear lower with the RTX 5070, which has ended up being launched in March, relatively than February as initially deliberate, and now finds itself keeping off some ferocious competitors from AMD.

The RTX 5070 nonetheless has multi body gen in its arsenal, after all, in addition to extensive assist for Nvidia DLSS tech in video games, plus the large model recognition that Nvidia now instructions within the graphics card market. Is that sufficient? I’ve benchmarked this Asus Prime RTX 5070 card in various video games, together with multi body gen assessments, to search out out.

Specs

The RTX 5070 is the primary of Nvidia’s RTX 5000 gaming GPUs to be primarily based on the brand new GB205 chip, which is considerably smaller than the GB203 chip used within the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. With all its elements enabled, this chip offers you 50 of Nvidia’s Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) blocks, and 6,400 CUDA cores.

The previous are the constructing blocks of Nvidia’s GPUs, and the latter are the tiny processing cores that work collectively to render your graphics – the extra, the higher. The RTX 5070 has two SMs disabled, although, supplying you with 6,144 CUDA cores and 48 of Nvidia’s new 4th-gen RT cores for ray tracing.

The entire reminiscence setup additionally takes successful with the RTX 5070, which solely comes with 12GB of VRAM, in comparison with 16GB on the 5070 Ti and 5080, and is simply connected to a 192-bit reminiscence interface, in comparison with a wider 256-bit interface on the RTX 5070 Ti and 5080. On the plus aspect, the VRAM is made up of super-fast GDDR7 chips working at 1,750MHz (28Gbps efficient), so you continue to get an honest reminiscence bandwidth of 672GB/s.

To place that determine into perspective, the GDDR6 reminiscence seen within the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT specs is connected to a wider 256-bit bus, and runs at 2,518MHz, however as a result of it’s GDDR6, the efficient pace is simply 20Gbps, and the overall bandwidth is barely decrease at 644.6GB/s. Mainly, when it comes to reminiscence bandwidth, which is the important thing determine right here, the RTX 5070 is barely faster than the 9070 playing cards, however not by a lot. Sure, you get GDDR7 reminiscence, however the slender interface it makes use of mainly means the AMD GDDR6 reminiscence setup is almost as quick.

Additionally, whereas the overall 12GB VRAM capability was nearly nice for the RTX 4070 within the final technology, it’s already proper on the sting in terms of maxing out the attention sweet within the newest video games, as we’ll see in our benchmarks. There’s already one sport take a look at in our suite that the RTX 5070 can’t run with out maxing out the VRAM and crashing, and that state of affairs is simply going to worsen over the approaching years.

There’s potential for an upgraded RTX 5070 sooner or later, although. It may function a fully-enabled chip with 6,400 CUDA cores, and use 3GB GDDR7 chips, as a substitute of the 2GB chips at present used. That might give a brand new RTX 5070 18GB of VRAM utilizing the identical 192-bit bus, which might be significantly better for future proofing. After all, Nvidia hasn’t introduced any such card, however we wouldn’t be shocked if such a card did flip up sooner or later.

Within the meantime, this $549 card solely comes with 12GB of VRAM, which places it at a drawback when the identically-priced AMD Radeon RX 9070 specs have 16GB and, as we’ve simply established, there’s no important enchancment in bandwidth through the use of GDDR7 as a substitute of GDDR6.

Nvidia has additionally tried to offer the RTX 5070 a little bit of a leg up by giving the chip an honest enhance clock. As normal, the RTX 5070 enhance clock is 2,512MHz, however our overclocked Asus Prime card ups this slightly to 2,557MHz as properly. Comparatively, the RTX 5070 Ti enhance clock is 2,452MHz, and the 5090 boosts to 2,407MHz. Solely the RTX 5080, with its 2,620MHz enhance clock, has the next inventory clock pace than the RTX 5070.

Lastly, there’s one key space the place the RTX 5070 has a transparent benefit over the Radeon RX 9070 XT, and that’s energy draw. RTX 5070 playing cards will include both a 16-pin energy connector, or a pair of 8-pin energy sockets on some third-party playing cards, with Nvidia quoting a complete board energy of 250W for the RTX 5070. Comparatively, the 9070 XT’s board energy is rated at 304W, and our overclocked pattern drew significantly extra energy throughout testing.

Options

With a really related primary spec to its predecessor, the RTX 4070, the primary promoting level of the RTX 5070 is its full assist for the Nvidia DLSS 4 suite, together with multi body gen. This intelligent tech makes use of AI to investigate the motion in your sport and insert AI-generated frames between those genuinely rendered by your GPU, to extend the body price. The RTX 4000 sequence supported the primary technology of Nvidia’s body gen know-how, which inserts one further body between every pair of rendered frames, however the RTX 5000 sequence takes this one other step additional with multi body gen.

This new tech requires an RTX 5000 GPU, together with the RTX 5070, and it may possibly insert as much as three AI-generated frames between every genuinely rendered pair. The outcomes may be transformative when it comes to easy visuals, and it’s this tech that varieties the idea of the declare that the RTX 5070 can match, and even generally beat, the RTX 4090.

There are some caveats right here, although. The primary is that just a few video games assist multi body gen for the time being, and whereas Nvidia initially informed me that you simply’d be capable of power multi body gen into titles that already supported body gen utilizing the DLSS Override function within the Nvidia App, the truth is that this hasn’t occurred – most video games that assist body gen nonetheless have these options grayed out within the app, with a word saying that assist isn’t detected for the sport.

Secondly, body gen can’t make up for an absence of VRAM. As you’ll see in our Indiana Jones assessments later, the RTX 5070 can’t run the sport on the high settings, even at simply 1080p, as a result of its 12GB of VRAM is maxed out, which means it solely runs at 5fps. Multi body gen isn’t a magic repair for this, and that is the place the 24GB VRAM of the RTX 4090 means it may possibly nonetheless be massively faster than the RTX 5070 even in video games that assist multi body gen.

Thirdly, body gen creates enter lag, because it’s solely the genuinely-rendered frames that reply on to your controls. For those who’re already beginning at an honest body price above 60fps, then that’s largely nice, and you should utilize multi body gen to easy out the visuals and make it look tremendous easy on a monitor with a excessive refresh price. In case your sport solely runs at 25fps as a place to begin, although, working it with body gen isn’t a superb expertise – it would ostensibly be working at 75fps, however you’ll discover it frustratingly unresponsive in motion. The truth is, enabling body gen barely drops your rendered body price, so a 25fps expertise may drop to feeling like 22fps, as an illustration, regardless that it seems to be prefer it’s working at 75fps.

Nvidia additionally cites neural rendering as a promoting level for the RTX 5070, which makes use of the Tensor cores within the GPU as a part of the graphics pipeline, permitting neural networks to work in video games to enhance the graphics. I had a play with neural radiance cache in Half-Life 2 RTX lately, in addition to RTX Pores and skin, and the outcomes are superb. No new video games assist these options but, however once they come, the RTX 5070 ought to be able to take them on.

Nonetheless, it’s additionally value noting that AMD has made massive strides in AI with its new RDNA 4 GPUs, and the corporate says its Radeon RX 9070 playing cards may deal with options akin to neural radiance cache now. We’ll have to attend and see how this all performs out over the subsequent few years, but when there’s one firm that actually is aware of AI {hardware} proper now, it’s Nvidia, so I’d be shocked if the RTX 5070 doesn’t deal with these workloads properly.

Asus Prime RTX 5070 OC card

Asus despatched us its Prime GeForce RTX 5070 OC card for the aim of this evaluation, and it’s an honest possibility for those who’re planning to purchase an RTX 5070. It doesn’t have any RGB bling, but it surely nonetheless seems to be elegant with its brushed shroud, black and silver livery, steel backplate, and curved edges. It’s properly made and has a strong cooler too. It’s geared up with three followers to chill the GPU and reminiscence, and it was exceptionally quiet in our assessments as properly.

It’s a giant card, measuring 12 inches (304mm) extensive, and taking on 2.5 slots, but it surely nonetheless meets Nvidia’s SFF Prepared certification, so you’ll be able to safely put it in a mini PC. It’s not as elegant because the two-slot RTX 5070 Founders Version with its new flow-through cooler (although just one fan has a real flow-through design with this FE card, in comparison with two on the RTX 5080 and 5090) and compact design, but it surely clearly has loads of cooling energy on faucet. Sadly, you’re not capable of monitor the recent spot on Nvidia GPUs any extra, however the GPU temperature peaked at 69.3°C in our assessments, which is ok, whereas the cooler made barely any noise.

Nvidia has given board companions the choice to equip RTX 5070 playing cards with 8-pin energy sockets, however Asus has as a substitute fitted a 16-pin connector to the center of the sting of this card, with an adapter cable provided within the field in case your PSU doesn’t have a 16-pin connector as normal.

There’s additionally a slight overclock on this card, with the GPU enhance set to 2,557MHz, relatively than the default of two,512MHz – that’s solely slightly enhance of 45MHz, so it’s not going to make a lot of a distinction to efficiency. Essentially, the GPU is able to boosting far previous this frequency anyway, with this Asus card peaking at 2,887MHz in our sport assessments.

How we take a look at

To measure the gaming efficiency of the GeForce RTX 5070, I’m working various benchmarks utilizing actual video games, relatively than artificial benchmarks. Every take a look at is run thrice, recorded with Nvidia FrameView, and I report the imply common of the outcomes, discarding any apparent anomalies. I report two figures for body charges – firstly, the common, which provides you an concept of the final body price you’ll obtain. Secondly, I report the 1% low, which is a median of the bottom one % of outcomes recorded throughout the benchmark.

The latter is a extra dependable indicator of efficiency than the minimal, because it removes outliers, akin to moments the place a Home windows system occasion causes the sport to stutter, which is unrelated to the efficiency of the GPU. The 1% low is what you’ll be able to count on the life like minimal body price to be in these video games.

I’ve examined our Asus Prime OC pattern at its default overclocked settings. As such, keep in mind {that a} inventory pace card might be slightly slower than the outcomes listed under, however the overclock is small, so the distinction is unlikely to be greater than 1-2fps right here and there.

GPU take a look at system specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• CPU cooler: Corsair H100X RGB Elite
• Reminiscence: 32GB 6,000MHz G.Ability TridentZ RGB, CL28
• Motherboard: MSI MAG X870E Carbon WiFi
• SSD: 2TB WD Black SN850X
• PSU: Corsair RM1000X Shift

Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077

Let’s begin with the perfect showcase of the RTX 5070’s skills, utilizing a sport that actually does give credence to the declare that this $549 GPU can sq. as much as the earlier $1,599 flagship, the RTX 4090. You’ll be able to genuinely max out Cyberpunk 2077 on the RTX 5070 at a easy body price, full with path tracing, and it seems to be superb.

Check out the outcomes at 1080p under, with the ray tracing Overdrive setting enabled, and DLSS upscaling on the standard setting utilizing the brand new transformer mannequin (which seems to be incredible), and you may see that the RTX 5070 is averaging 235fps due to multi body gen, whereas the RTX 4090 with single body gen solely manages 206fps.

This can be a nice showcase for multi body gen, as the sport is rather more about spectacle than a aggressive first individual shooter, and the RTX 5070 copes with it very well. It additionally manages the sport fairly properly at 1440p, utilizing the identical settings, with a median of 151fps utilizing multi body gen, in comparison with 148fps on the 4090 with single body gen. It’s not as responsive as enjoying the sport at 148fps with out multi body gen, however I discovered it playable, and it seems to be easy too.

Comparatively, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT averages 92fps on this take a look at utilizing primary FSR body gen, and whereas that’s nonetheless nice when it comes to playability, Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t assist AMD’s new FSR 4 tech but, so it’s a must to use FSR 3 for upscaling, which means the sport seems to be higher on the Nvidia GPU.

Nonetheless, the place the RTX 4090 vs 5070 claims actually crumble is while you run the sport at 4K. The RTX 4090 averages 82fps with single body gen, and it’s nonetheless playable. Comparatively, the RTX 5070 averages 80fps, however its start line is simply too low to make the gameplay easy. You’ll be able to truly really feel the lag in busy scenes within the sport, the place it feels stuttery, even when the body price seems to be easy.

In any other case, aside from 4K, the RTX 5070 handles path tracing properly on this sport, and multi body gen generally is a helpful function to have in your aspect. That’s the excellent news, however for those who flip off all of the AI smoke and mirrors, and simply have a look at the uncooked gaming efficiency below the hood, the RTX 5070 begins to crumble in comparison with the AMD competitors.

I examined the sport on the Extremely ray tracing preset at 1080p, with no DLSS or FSR enabled, for instance, and you may see that at these settings the Radeon RX 9070 XT is 13fps faster than the RTX 5070, whereas the RX 9070 is across the identical pace.

AMD has beforehand struggled with ray tracing on this sport, but it surely’s now clearly caught up, and also you want multi body gen to get a bonus on Nvidia {hardware} now. The identical sample is seen at 1440p, the place the 9070 XT averages 55fps at these settings, whereas the RTX 5070 and Radeon RX 9070 common 45fps.

Mainly, the one profit on this sport that you simply get from the RTX 5070 is multi body gen, and that’s solely value enabling for those who can run the sport at an honest body price within the first place – it received’t repair poor efficiency.

Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle

I hoped this demanding sport can be one other stable showcase for the RTX 5070. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle now helps multi body gen, in any case, and you can too allow full path tracing within the sport – options that ought to present a brand new Nvidia GPU in its greatest mild. The Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle system necessities are notoriously brutal, so this ought to be a superb take a look at of the RTX 5070’s mettle.

Assured within the RTX 5070’s skills, I maxed out the graphics settings with the Supreme preset, and maxed out the Full RT path tracing settings, whereas enabling DLSS upscaling and multi body gen. I assumed it will not less than be capable of run the sport at these settings at 1080p, however nope, it dropped all the way down to 5fps after which crashed to the desktop.

A fast examine on GPU-Z (screenshot under) informed me why – these settings utterly max out the meager 12GB of VRAM on the RTX 5070. OK, I assumed. I’ll tone it down and drop all the way down to the Extremely preset with decrease Full RT settings, however once more the body price was unplayable, and the sport crashed to the desktop.

To make issues worse, the menus on this sport sit on high of the rendered scene, making the menus unusable whereas the body price is so low, which means it’s a must to restart the sport in protected mode to get it working once more.

Comparatively, whereas the body charges on the brand new AMD GPUs at these settings aren’t playable, and FSR body gen doesn’t work properly on this sport both, they will not less than run the sport and menus at these settings, so you’ll be able to experiment and discover settings that work.

Dissatisfied with these outcomes, I made a decision to see how the sport fared at the usual Extremely preset with no path tracing, and with none assist from DLSS or FSR. This isn’t a sport that should run above 60fps, as whereas there’s a little bit of fist-fight motion, it’s largely about spectacle and puzzles. The excellent news is that it runs properly on the RTX 5070 with out path tracing. At 1440p, the RTX 5070 averages an amazing 100fps at these settings, 8fps forward of the Radeon RX 9070, and 5fps behind the 9070 XT.

It could comfortably address this sport at 4K too, with a median of 64fps, once more sitting between the outcomes from the 2 new AMD GPUs. Not like the latter, you might additionally allow multi body gen at these settings and luxuriate in smoother visuals with these beginning factors – it’s only a actual disgrace the trail tracing options are already out of attain.

This sport additionally actually exhibits the RTX 4090 vs RTX 5070 declare for what it’s, which is a ridiculous exaggeration. Due to its 24GB of VRAM, the RTX 4090 cannot solely deal with this sport on the Supreme preset with the Full RT settings maxed out at 1080p, however it may possibly additionally do it at 4K, a feat that even the RTX 5080 can’t obtain. With single body gen and DLSS on the standard setting, the RTX 4090 averages 77fps on this take a look at, and it’s completely playable – in the meantime, the RTX 5070 can’t even run the sport with these settings at 1080p with out falling over.

Name of Obligation Black Ops 6

Now for the not-so-good information, which is that when it comes to uncooked rendering efficiency, the RTX 5070 is a great distance behind the brand new AMD GPUs. That is actually highlighted in Name of Obligation Black Ops 6, which has no ray tracing options, and actually stresses rasterization efficiency. I examined this sport on the Excessive preset to actually push the GPU {hardware} to its restrict, and you may see within the outcomes under that the RTX 5070 is at a definite drawback.

At 1440p with no DLSS options enabled, for instance, the RTX 5070’s common of 97fps is a great distance from the 162fps of the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the 9070’s 140fps. That is magnified at 4K, the place the RTX 5070 averages 65fps with a 1% low of 48fps. In the meantime, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is averaging 99fps, and the 9070 is racking up an 89fps body price.

Nvidia can’t play the DLSS card on this sport any extra both, because it now helps AMD FSR 4, which seems to be incredible within the sport on the brand new AMD GPUs, and there’s additionally no assist for multi body gen. It could assist single body gen utilizing each FSR and DLSS, although, and this actually permits the brand new AMD GPUs to tug forward.

With DLSS or FSR on the High quality setting and body gen enabled at 4K, for instance, the RTX 5070 averages 89fps, with seen glitching round a few of the HUD components. In the meantime, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is even faster than the RTX 5080 on this take a look at, averaging 157fps, whereas the 9070 averages 141fps.

The RTX 5070 can positively play Black Ops 6, however this sport actually exhibits up the distinction in rendering energy between the Nvidia GPU and AMD’s newest RDNA 4 playing cards.

F1 24

One other sport that exhibits the RTX 5070 now falling behind the AMD competitors is F1 24, even on the Extremely Excessive settings with ray tracing enabled. Working at 1080p with out DLSS or FSR enabled, the RTX 5070 averages an honest 111fps with a 1% low of 80fps, giving it an honest 20fps step up from the RTX 4070. Nonetheless, the Radeon RX 9070 averages 130fps on this identical take a look at, whereas the 9070 XT climbs all the way in which as much as 153fps.

It’s an analogous story at 1440p, the place the RTX 5070’s 89fps is properly in entrance of the last-gen Radeon RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070, however behind the 9070’s 101fps and the 9070 XT’s 121fps. Step as much as 4K, and the RTX 5070 drops to a median of 53fps with a 41fps 1% low, whereas the 9070 XT continues to be staying above 60fps, with a median of 73fps.

By way of body charges, the state of affairs is even worse while you add DLSS and FSR to the combination. With upscaling on the High quality setting, and body gen enabled, the 9070 XT averages an enormous 202fps at 4K, and the 9070 runs at 168fps. In the meantime, the RTX 5070 lags behind at 94fps.

The RTX 5070 has the good thing about superior picture high quality from DLSS on this sport at these settings, which doesn’t assist FSR 4, and FSR 3 leads to some nasty artifacts on the AMD GPUs. Nonetheless, that time is essentially moot when the 9070 XT has a lot extra uncooked energy below its belt – you might allow body gen with no FSR upscaling on the AMD GPUs and they’d nonetheless be sooner.

Doom Everlasting

Lastly, our veteran Doom Everlasting take a look at once more highlights the distinction in rendering energy between the RTX 5070 and the brand new AMD GPUs, although to a lesser diploma.

Working at 1440p with Extremely Nightmare settings, the RTX 5070 averages 423fps, whereas the 9070 XT runs at 500fps and the 9070 is barely faster at 447fps. To be truthful, although, all these body charges are so excessive anyway that it’s barely value quibbling.

The distinction is extra pronounced at 4K, the place the RTX 5070 averages an honest 226fps, a superb 20fps sooner than the RTX 4070. Nonetheless, the 9070 XT averages 307fps on this take a look at, whereas the 9070 averages 260fps.

Once more, enabling ray tracing on this sport additionally confirmed that AMD has actually caught up right here. Based mostly on the efficiency of earlier generations, we’d count on the RTX 5070 to out-perform AMD’s equal GPUs right here, however it may possibly’t do it.

At 1440p, for instance, with ray tracing enabled on the Extremely Nightmare settings, the RTX 5070’s 268fps common is an honest consequence, however the 9070 and 9070 XT are faster, with the latter even hitting 322fps. Likewise, at 4K, the RTX 5070’s 144fps common is behind the respective 163fps and 192fps of the 9070 and 9070 XT.

Energy draw

One first rate advantage of the RTX 5070 over the AMD competitors, notably the 9070 XT, is its energy draw. Whereas AMD’s method prioritizes brute power and excessive clock speeds, Nvidia has taken an arguably extra elegant method to this worth sector, with a modest GPU filled with AI capabilities. With the RTX 5070 put in, our take a look at rig solely drew 369W from the mains at full load, and that’s with this Asus card’s overclock too.

Comparatively, the identical system attracts a most of 395W from the mains with the Radeon RX 9070 put in, and an enormous 525W with our ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT put in. That’s the value of big clock speeds, notably in terms of the overclocked ASRock Taichi 9070 XT card we examined. You could possibly safely run the RTX 5070 with a 750W PSU, and that might nonetheless provide you with loads of headroom.

Value

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 worth is $549, which seems to be affordable at first look. It’s $50 cheaper than the unique launch worth of the RTX 4070, in any case. Nonetheless, at this worth, the RTX 5070 finds itself challenged by intimidating competitors, with AMD throwing every thing it’s received on the RTX 5070.

It’s a technique that’s labored for AMD – its two new GPUs value $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for 9070 XT, they usually’re each superior selections to the RTX 5070. Nvidia may get away with this $549 worth if it hadn’t been for this technique from AMD, but it surely wants a drop in worth to make it value contemplating now.

After all, the value of the RTX 5070 can be largely a moot level proper now, as inventory ranges look set to be so low that you simply’re more likely to find yourself paying rather more for it than the MSRP anyway. Both approach, it’s not an amazing deal at $549, and it’s a worse deal if you find yourself paying scalper costs for it.

Options

AMD Radeon RX 9070

For a similar worth because the RTX 5070, AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 gives extra rendering energy and extra VRAM, and whereas it does draw extra energy than the 5070, it’s rather more power-frugal than the 9070 XT. It doesn’t have multi body gen, and the 5070 is often a tiny bit faster in ray traced assessments, however the 9070 is in any other case a usually superior GPU. At this worth, although, you could as properly pay the additional $50 and get the 9070 XT as a substitute.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

For those who can afford to spend an additional $50 in your graphics card, and you’ve got an honest PSU, then AMD’s newest RDNA 4 GPU is the perfect purchase on this worth bracket proper now. It has considerably extra rendering energy than the RTX 5070, and its further 4GB of VRAM offers it some future proofing too. The one downers are the excessive energy draw and the shortage of multi body gen assist – the 9070 XT is in any other case a considerably superior GPU for less than slightly more money. Learn our full AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT evaluation.

Verdict

Reality be informed, it’s arduous to get excited in regards to the RTX 5070. One of the best I can say is that it’s an OK GPU for essentially the most half and that it doesn’t draw a lot energy, however that’s hardly a killer advertising and marketing quote you’d wish to placed on the field. Sadly, the RTX 5070 actually seems to be like a product of Nvidia resting on its laurels. It’s solely slightly faster than the two-year-old RTX 4070, and it nonetheless solely has 12GB of VRAM in 2025. The one massive new function is multi body gen, and the advantages of that begin to fade as soon as a GPU will get much less highly effective and the beginning body charges are decrease.

The reminiscence is a specific disappointment. Nvidia has been pushing ray tracing and path tracing arduous over the past couple of years, and the truth that its newest mid-range GPU doesn’t have sufficient VRAM to deal with these calls for in Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle simply appears weird.

In our different take a look at video games, the 12GB of VRAM is sufficient, but it surely’s clearly already near its restrict – 12GB is unlikely to be sufficient in a 12 months or so. The RTX 5070 wanted to return geared up with not less than 16GB of VRAM, and to supply an honest step up in rendering efficiency over the RTX 4070. As it’s, it’s mainly a barely sooner RTX 4070 with superior AI options.

There are additionally horror tales of ridiculously low RTX 5070 inventory ranges proper now, and in the event that they’re true, meaning you’re impossible to have the ability to choose up an RTX 5070 for $549 anyway. In the meantime, AMD has made two GPUs with extra VRAM primarily based on older GDDR6 tech, they usually’re extra highly effective and apparently in higher provide as properly.

That stated, there are legitimate causes to decide on this GPU over the AMD competitors, such because the superior high quality of DLSS upscaling in comparison with FSR 3, and the truth that FSR 4 is at present solely supported in a handful of video games, whereas DLSS has widespread assist. Multi body gen generally is a first rate function in the best circumstances too. Whereas the RTX 5070 isn’t a lot of an improve over the RTX 4070, it makes extra sense for those who’re upgrading from an RTX 3070 or older GPU too.

For most individuals, although, we’d advise skipping the RTX 5070. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is considerably extra highly effective for simply $50 extra, making it a no brainer, so long as you’ve gotten a PSU that may address it.

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