Compute and AI Benchmarks
Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases, people who game also do work on the side. AI performance importance has increased quickly recently as well. So it is also important to check out the compute and AI performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests. To start off our AI tests I ran Geekbench AI, a cross-platform AI benchmark that uses real-world machine learning tasks giving three results, a full precision score, half precision score, and quantized score. The Prime RTX 5070 came in below the Founders Edition and dropped down enough in the combined score to drop below the RX 7900 XT, but was still impressive and is sitting ahead of both the RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER, thanks mostly to its half-precision score.
Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. With the latest version of Blender, they redid the benchmark so we now have a new test that runs three different renderings and gives each a score. I have all three stacked together so we can see the overall performance. The Prime RTX 5070 dropped below both the 5070 Founders Edition and the 4070 SUPER here with its combined results. It is still out in front of the RTX 3090 Ti.
For CUDA-based cards, I also check out V-Ray Benchmark 5 to check out CUDA and RTX performance in the 3D rendering and simulation software. The Prime RTX 5070 once again came in below the Founders Edition in both the CUDA and RTX tests, it’s not by much of a margin but it's interesting to see how it outperformed the Founders Edition in the 3Dmark tests but is a hair behind here.
