GeForce RTX 5070: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 5070 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 72.92% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 5070 sales 4 March 2025 at a recommended price of $549. This is a high-end Blackwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 12 GB of GDDR7 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 245 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 5070: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking20
Place by popularity48
Cost-effectiveness evaluation72.77
Power efficiency20.61of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureBlackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGB205
Market segmentDesktop
Release date4 March 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 5070's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 5070's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000)
Core clock speed2325 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2512 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors31,100 millionof 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop)
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate482.3of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power30.87 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs80of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs192of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores192of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores48of 188 (RTX PRO 6000)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 5070 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16
Length245 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 5070: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR7
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1750 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 5070. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b
HDMI+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 5070, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.8
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.4
CUDA10.1
DLSS+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 5070. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX 5070 72.92

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 5070 29014

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RTX 5070 71642

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RTX 5070 137827

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RTX 5070 56472

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 5070 258137

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 5070 862499

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 5070 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD220
1440p126
4K79

Cost per frame, $

1080p2.50
1440p4.36
4K6.95

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 281
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180

Full HD
Medium Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 222
Battlefield 5 180−190
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 322
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 280−290
Forza Horizon 5 329
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 400−450

Full HD
High Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 194
Battlefield 5 180−190
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 306
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 280−290
Forza Horizon 5 299
Grand Theft Auto V 170−180
Metro Exodus 170−180
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 436
Valorant 400−450

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 189
Battlefield 5 180−190
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 290
Forza Horizon 4 280−290
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 210
Valorant 400−450

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 300−350

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 210−220
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 500−550
Grand Theft Auto V 140−150
Metro Exodus 120−130
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 450−500

1440p
Ultra Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 135
Battlefield 5 180−190
Cyberpunk 2077 100−110
Far Cry 5 222
Forza Horizon 4 240−250
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 166

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 150−160

4K
High Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 115
Counter-Strike 2 95−100
Grand Theft Auto V 160−170
Metro Exodus 80−85
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 150
Valorant 300−350

4K
Ultra Preset

Baldur's Gate 3 73
Battlefield 5 130−140
Counter-Strike 2 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
Far Cry 5 116
Forza Horizon 4 200−210
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 95−100

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 75−80

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 5070's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 5070 is Radeon RX 7900 XT, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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