Another day, another GPU launch, and while I’m happy as that keeps us busy, it’s not exactly been plain sailing in terms of stock availability, performance uplifts generation to generation, and general niggles and issues that you get with any new product, though hopefully today, we can push forward and look at a card that is likely going to appeal to more of a mass market, as the RTX 5070 comes in with an MSRP of $549 and is set to give those who bought the ever-so popular RTX 3070 a worthy reason to upgrade.
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition
Ok, so first, let’s talk about where this is positioned because as we all know, AMD are releasing their latest RDNA4 lineup within the next 24 hours, and this evidently puts pressure on NVIDIA to make a big splash with the RTX 5070, but if the other 50 series lineup has taught us anything, with the exception being the RTX 5090, as it’s in a league of its own, the generational uplift from the 40 series isn’t exactly setting the world alight. That’s not to say that the 50 series is bad or that there’s anything inherently wrong, but we’re at a point where consumers are still expecting huge jumps in rasterisation, and even in raytracing, but long gone are those days where that is the biggest focus, and whether you like it or not, AI through DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation is here to stay.
That does mean that on a card like the RTX 5070, we should see strong uplifts over the RTX 3070, but those gains will be much more muted when compared to the RTX 4070 and more importantly, 4070 SUPER which both launched for $50 more than the card we’re looking at today.
Key Features
- Enhanced NVIDIA Broadcast App: Includes new AI-powered features like Studio Voice and Virtual Key Light for improved live streaming.
- Blackwell Architecture: The new Blackwell architecture boasts significant improvements in performance and efficiency.
- AI-Powered Rendering: Features like neural shaders and DLSS 4 leverage AI for groundbreaking graphics rendering.
- DLSS 4: This technology uses AI to generate more frames, leading to up to 8x performance boosts compared to traditional rendering.
- RTX Neural Shaders: Introduce AI networks into programmable shaders, enabling film-quality materials and lighting in games.
- RTX Neural Faces: Renders high-quality digital faces in real-time using AI.
- Reflex 2 with Frame Warp: Reduces latency in games by up to 75% for a more responsive experience.
- Autonomous Game Characters: New NVIDIA ACE technologies allow for AI-powered non-player characters (NPCs) that can perceive, plan, and act more like human players.
- AI Foundation Models: Support for NVIDIA NIM microservices enables users to build AI agents and assistants on their RTX AI PCs.
- FP4 Precision: Boosts AI image generation performance and allows for running generative AI models locally.
