I don’t fully understand the performance I’m seeing from the RTX 5070 on the charts above, but I re-ran the tests and validated the results. The margins are small, but the fact remains that at these settings the older xx70S card can be faster than the new xx70 non-S offering. Perhaps it comes down to the RTX 4070 Super’s sizable CUDA core advantage – though it has quite a bit less memory bandwidth than the new RTX 5070…
Ultimately, the RTX 5070 is a solid upgrade over the RTX 4070, but it only trades blows with the RTX 4070 Super – depending on the test. This is not exactly compelling, particularly considering the competition may heat up considerably in this space as AMD releases their new RX 9070 offerings, but there it is.
Testing DLSS and Frame Generation
One thing NVIDIA always has is software. DLSS has evolved into something I have heard described as “better than native”, and indeed it looks very, very good at the “Quality” preset that I prefer. On the other hand, “Balanced” is a more, well, balanced take on the tech, so, switching back to the 3440×1440 monitor and running Cyberpunk at the extremely demanding RT Overdrive preset, here are some DLSS “Balanced” results (with and without FG):
