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. My first test was 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 RTX 5070 Founders Edition did well here coming in below the RX 7900 XTX and ahead of the RX 7900 XT, punching above its weight class. Even when compared to Nvidia’s lineup it was in front of the RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER. Thanks to it doing well with the 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 RTX 5070 Founders Edition came in behind the 4070 Ti here but ahead of the older 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 RTX 5070 Founders Edition was nearly tied with the overclocked RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in both results.
