There’s been a whole lot 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 attempt 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 really 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 greatest graphics card isn’t that the previous has extra GPU horsepower, however relatively that its new Tensor cores help Nvidia DLSS 4. Particularly, using multi body technology 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 house about whether or not that is dishonest or not, however I genuinely struggled to inform the distinction between the 2 check techniques 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 techniques by way of setup is that the RTX 5070 was working the sport with multi body gen, whereas the RTX 4090 was utilizing normal body gen.
Persistently, 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 fitting is hitting 248fps.
Nevertheless, Nvidia additionally harassed 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 help multi body gen) – it’s simply that Marvel Rivals responds notably nicely to border technology.
In motion, I actually couldn’t inform the distinction between the 2 techniques, 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 discuss extra about that at a later date), it really works surprisingly nicely, at the least on this title. The sport was easy 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 recreation that’s nicely optimized for it.
And therein lies the catch. If a recreation doesn’t help multi body gen, then the RTX 4090 will likely 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 out there, with the RTX 5070’s meager 12GB locking it out of a number of the excessive settings you possibly can allow on the RTX 4090 at 4K, even if you happen to allow body gen.
It’s a formidable demo, although. With the fitting setup and the fitting 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 nicely, the RTX 5070 seems to be 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. You too can learn our RTX 5090 information to see what Nvidia has in retailer on the top-end of the gaming GPU market.
