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. Having already taken a look at the RTX 5070 Founders Edition I am curious to see how the Prime compares with its larger cooler but same clock speed. In addition, we want to keep an eye on cards like the 7800 XT which is selling for close to the same launch price here, the RTX 4070, and the RTX 3070 which is the card that people might be looking to upgrade to the 5070 from.
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 scored a 56434 on the base Fire Strike benchmark putting it behind the 7900 GRE and ahead of the 6800 XT. That was 1477 points higher than the 50708 Founders Edition. In Fire Strike Extreme the two 5070s are next to each other but the Prime RTX 5070 is still 459 points ahead of the Founders Edition. Then with the Fire Strike Ultra test that gap shrinks even more with the Prime RTX 5070 ahead by 87 points.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. The Prime RTX 5070 is nearly tied with the Founders Edition in both Time Spy results. That puts it 6.8% ahead of the RTX 4070 SUPER, 25% ahead of the RTX 4070, and 62% ahead of the RTX 3070.
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 fell below the Founders Edition for the Speed Way result and the Port Royal test as well which is interesting. It wasn’t by a large margin and didn’t drop it down below any other cards because of it.
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. The Prime RTX 5070 jumped back in front of the 5070 Founders Edition here, staying behind the 4070 Ti and ahead of the 7900 GRE and the 4070 SUPER.
I did also test using the 3Dmark DLSS comparison. Testing at 4k with each of the generations of DLSS with DLSS 4 including frame generation x4. The Prime RTX 5070 is tied with the Founders Editon here, but more importantly, this gives a good look at the potential performance increases you can see with DLSS. With DLSS 4 the base 30 FPS result is 546% faster at 194 FPS.
