As we approach the official launch next month, the first wave of leaked RTX 5070 benchmarks has started to arrive on Geekbench. According to these figures, across the OpenCL and Vulkan APIs, the RTX 5070 fails to definitively beat the RTX 4070 Super. Sadly, that has been the norm with Blackwell and budget counterparts seemingly are no exception. However, Geekbench results are extremely inconsistent and don't always reflect how the GPU will hold up in real-world scenarios. Thus, it's advised you season this leak with an unhealthy sprinkling of salt.
The RTX 5070 is powered by a slightly cut-down GB205 die under the hood with 48 SMs or 6,144 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR7 memory. Jensen is now infamously quoted stating the RTX 5070 is equivalent to the RTX 4090 (with MFG); quite misleading for the average consumer. In raw-raster, we speculate the RTX 5070 may struggle to surpass even the RTX 4070 Super, given the reduced shading units. The GPU carries a modest 250W TBP (Total Board Power) and an MSRP of $549, though launch prices and availability might be extremely volatile.
