Synthetic Benchmarks
As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. For the Prime RTX 5070 Ti, this is our first look at the RTX 5070 Ti and this is the stock-clocked version so my main focus will be on how it compares to the RTX 5080, the RTX 4080, and 4080 SUPER, and the 3070 Ti as well. From AMD our eye is on how it compares to the RX 7900 XTX and XT.
The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The Prime RTX 5070 Ti came in behind the 7900 XTX but out in front of the 7900 XT and Nviida’s RTX 4080 SUPER in all three of the Fire Strike tests. If you have an RTX 3070 Ti and are curious how it compares it nearly doubled the score in Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme and did double the performance in the Fire Strike Ultra test.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. In Time Spy the Prime RTX 5070 Ti scored 27949 which put it right with the RTX 4080 and behind the RTX 4080 SUPER. This puts it ahead of the RX 7900 XT and behind the RX 7900. In Time Spy Extreme the result was similar but it came in behind the RTX 4080 which is disappointing.
I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is one of their latest benchmarks and Port Royal as well. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until its release where only used in feature tests, not full benchmarks. The Prime RTX 5070 Ti came in ahead of the RTX 4080 SUPER in both of these tests with the next card above it being the RTX 5080 doubling the performance of the RTX 3070 Ti once again. The RX 7900 XTX and XT are both down lower in this chart below the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti SUPER.
The last test is the newer 3Dmark Steel Nomad benchmark. Officially this is the replacement for the Time Spy benchmark. It is a DX12 benchmark and doesn’t include ray tracing but is updated to better take advantage of modern cards. Like with the Time Spy benchmarks the Prime RTX 5070 Ti came in below the RTX 4080.
