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

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

As with all 50 series GPUs I have tested so far, I was able to maximise the memory slider at +2000MHz. Nvidia allows a 10% power increase, and I also added 380MHz to the GPU core.

This overclock netted us some decent gains, in line with the 5070 Ti and 5080, given frame rates increased by 11% in Cyberpunk and then by 10% in the other two games tested. It's certainly more than we would have come to expect based on how things have been going over the last two years.

Power draw did rise accordingly, up to 272W in Plague Tale, which is a 10% increase over stock – so you're not getting efficiency gains, but I'd say it's well worth it for the extra performance.

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