Nvidia RTX 5070 Review: RTX 4090 Performance?

1. Introduction2. Meet the RTX 5070 Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. Alan Wake II5. Black Myth: Wukong6. Cyberpunk 20777. Final Fantasy XVI8. Forza Horizon 59. Ghost of Tsushima10. Horizon Forbidden West11. The Last of Us Part 112. A Plague Tale: Requiem13. Senua's Saga: Hellblade 214. Starfield15. Total War: Warhammer III16. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)17. Cost Per Frame Analysis18. Ray Tracing: Alan Wake II19. Ray Tracing: Black Myth: Wukong20. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing: F1 2422. Ray Tracing: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart23. Ray Tracing: Returnal24. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider25. Ray Tracing: Star Wars Outlaws26. Ray Tracing Performance Summary27. DLSS Testing28. AI & Productivity Benchmarks29. Clock Speed30. GPU Temperatures31. Acoustics32. Power Draw: 1080p33. Power Draw: 1440p34. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)35. Performance per Watt: 1080p36. Performance per Watt: 1440p37. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)38. Total System Power Draw39. Overclocking40. Closing Thoughts41. View All Pages

The MSRPs

Using the average frame rate data presented earlier in the review, here we look at the cost per frame using the UK MSRP launch prices for each GPU. Please note this only compares rasterised performance and value.

Offering basically RTX 4070 Super performance for a 7% price cut (£539, down from £579) results in just an 8% improvement to cost per frame – at least, when calculated using the MSRPs. It's hardly a major change, and the 7900 GRE still tops the chart at 1440p, but at least it's not a backwards step.

Current retail pricing

We also show the data based on current pricing here in the UK, though we've had to leave out several GPUs given the 40 series is very hard to find now, while AMD RDNA 3 GPUs are also becoming more scarce. This data also assumes the RTX 5070 will actually be available at MSRP, but we'll have to see about that…

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