GeForce RTX 5070: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 5070 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 63.89% 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 ranking21
Place by popularity64
Cost-effectiveness evaluation71.49
Power efficiency20.23of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureBlackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameGB205
Market segmentDesktop
Release date4 March 2025 (recently)
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.

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 (Arc Graphics 140V)
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 115.8 (RTX PRO 6000)
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 63.89

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 28547

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 HD130
1440p94
4K66

Cost per frame, $

1080p4.22
1440p5.84
4K8.32

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Atomic Heart 210−220
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180

Full HD
Medium Preset

Atomic Heart 210−220
Battlefield 5 180−190
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 180−190
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
Forza Horizon 5 190−200
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 350−400

Full HD
High Preset

Atomic Heart 210−220
Battlefield 5 180−190
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 180−190
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
Forza Horizon 5 190−200
Grand Theft Auto V 170−180
Metro Exodus 170−180
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 290−300
Valorant 350−400

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 180−190
Cyberpunk 2077 170−180
Far Cry 5 180−190
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 211
Valorant 350−400

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 110−120
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 450−500

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 170−180
Cyberpunk 2077 100−105
Far Cry 5 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 163

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 150−160

4K
High Preset

Atomic Heart 65−70
Counter-Strike 2 95−100
Grand Theft Auto V 160−170
Metro Exodus 75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 146
Valorant 300−350

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 130−140
Counter-Strike 2 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 45−50
Far Cry 5 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
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 faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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