Nvidia RTX 5070 Review + Benchmarks: DLSS 4 Doesn't Deliver 4090 Performance

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Published on March 4, 2025 2:00:58 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nldUI2yQomw

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The latest release in the Nvidia RTX 50-series Blackwell offers the best balance of price vs performance, but to be clear - pre-launch hype should be tempered. It's doesn't deliver RTX 4090 performance - think of it more as a price-cut RTX 4070 Super with DLSS 4 multi frame-gen support.

See all of our benchmark data here: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-review

Note: 4x MFG latency with DLSS 4 in Alan Wake 2 is 146ms, so considerably higher than the VO says. The graphs on-screen, however, are accurate. Apologies for the error and any confusion - a corrected version of this segment is here:    • RTX 5070: Why DLSS 4 Doesn't Really D...  

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00:00 Introduction
02:21 RTX 5070 Specifications
03:36 GPU Clock Speeds, Power and Overclocking
06:30 RT Benchmarks: Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora
07:36 RT Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077
08:26 RT Benchmarks: Dying Light 2
09:37 RT Benchmarks: F1 24
10:53 RT Benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
11:59 Rasterisation Benchmark: Black Myth Wukong
12:51 Rasterisation Benchmark: Forza Horizon 5
13:53 DLSS 4 - The RTX 4090 Performance Question
18:57 Features/Performance Summary
20:10 Value Calculations
22:12 RTX 5070 - Final Thoughts
23:12 And Now, The Conclusion