Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek on the unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit body charges in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K

For the previous week or so I have been taking part in round with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics card, the subsequent outing within the new RTX Blackwell sequence of GPUs. It is the most cost effective of all of the RTX 50-series playing cards thus far with a $549 MSRP and the promise of RTX 4090 efficiency. Although latest expertise has taught us that, outdoors of the resolutely MSRP Founders Version I’ve right here, such pricing is an ephemeral factor in terms of such shortage available in the market.

We additionally now have extra real GPU competitors on the horizon on this worth bracket, too, with AMD yesterday asserting its personal $549 and $599 graphics playing cards. So, the RTX 5070 has received its work lower out attempting to make a spot for itself on this more and more busy finish of the GPU enterprise.

And who’s that good for? Us! As PC players, elevated competitors in a extra inexpensive finish of the market can solely be an excellent factor. So, hooray, the GPU world is trying all types of extra thrilling rapidly.

Latest expertise has additionally taught us to perhaps be somewhat cautious of promoting hyperbole from GPU producers. How do these RTX 4090 efficiency for $549 claims rise up? Nicely, you will have to attend for our evaluation to see what the cardboard can do with or with out the magic of Multi Body Era in contrast with Nvidia’s earlier nice.

Neither the RTX 5070 nor its Radeon-shaped competitors are out till subsequent week, and critiques of the playing cards aren’t going to reach till simply earlier than they’re on the cabinets. However I’ve received somewhat sneak peek for you, an experiential dive into the efficiency of the brand new Nvidia card in terms of each Cyberpunk 2077—Nvidia’s poster-child for just about each new graphical advance it is made prior to now couple of years—and the most recent Obsidian RPG, Avowed.

Nvidia RTX 5070 efficiency: Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 | RT Extremely preset | 1440p | DLSS: High quality | Body Gen x4

That is what passes for a mid-range card in these costly occasions of ours, however despite the fact that it’s nonetheless a good chunk of change, I would not essentially count on to have the ability to push the settings as much as prime ray tracing ranges in a sport like this and nonetheless get efficiency I might be proud of.

And but, that is precisely what I have been doing with the RTX 5070 and Cyberpunk 2077 at RT Extremely. As a result of I am a sadist? Not a little bit of it; as a result of Multi Body Era is a characteristic that’s surprisingly nonetheless able to delivering even this far down the RTX Blackwell GPU stack.

The video right here is of the RTX 5070 operating within the PC Gamer take a look at rig. That is an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D, with 32 GB DDR5-6000, and a ton of storage to accommodate all of the video games on my Steam account. Nicely, a few of them. There are lots. Cyberpunk 2077 right here is operating on the RT Extremely preset at 1440p, with DLSS set to High quality, and Body Era on its most excessive 4x mode.

That is fairly huge boi GPU stuff, and the RTX 5070 is doing severely nicely dealing with it. I am not allowed to enter full specifics of efficiency—embargos and all that—however you’ll be able to see for your self it is fairly damned clean. I am taking a look at over 200 fps on common right here and even within the extra frantic sections, the place I totally fail to headshot a bunch of chooms, you are not getting any actual artifacting from the addition of one other three AI-generated frames slapped in between each two rendered ones.

What of latency? Nicely, once more, I can not reveal numbers right this moment, however the PCL actually is not at a degree the place I might be involved about taking part in an absorbing single participant sport for its entirety like this. What Nvidia has carried out with MFG may be very spectacular—I am not going to say I would not quite have triple-digit body charges at prime settings with a $549 card utilizing conventional rendering, however till we get there I am going to take it.

Nvidia RTX 5070 efficiency: Avowed

Avowed | Epic preset | 4K | DLSS: High quality | Body Gen x4

Avowed is an attention-grabbing one, as a result of we have been a bit confused by a few of the efficiency ranges that you’ll expertise within the sport, the place it will probably really feel not that clean even if you happen to’re getting excessive body charges. There is a sure degree ag which it will probably really feel quite janky, even if you happen to’re hitting 90 fps, virtually such as you’re getting the dreaded microstutter.

However right here it’s, operating on the RTX 5070 at 4K Epic settings, at nicely over 100 fps and feeling buttery clean. Once more, that is because of 4x Multi Body Gen being enabled and with DLSS set to the High quality mode.

Avowed is one sport the place MFG is not native to the sport, however it’s an excellent instance of the place the Nvidia App and its DLSS Override characteristic comes into play. That is the place you’ll be able to drive the Transformer mannequin into video games with out the brand new DLSS mannequin enabled by default, however crucially additionally the place you’ll be able to allow MFG on virtually all video games which have conventional 2x Body Era already a part of the sport.

That is how I’ve received 4x MFG in motion right here, and it seems to be nice, feels super-responsive, and the extra smoothing of MFG completely nixes any of the bizarre stuttery efficiency you could possibly in any other case get on this sport, with this card. Simply please ignore the bit the place I wrestle to determine methods to climb a ladder. That occurs to me IRL, too.

The visuals are usually not 100% excellent although. Whereas the precise gameworld seems to be nice, with nary an artifact in sight to betray these AI-generated injected frames, you will note the tell-tale indicators while you have a look at in-game markers. Any quest markers that stay in place inside your imaginative and prescient as you progress the viewport round, tend to barely glitch out. You’d have seen an analogous impact in Cyberpunk 2077 with MFG enabled, too, however I did not have these markers enabled.

It is somewhat jarring, for positive, however positively one thing I can get previous in change for triple-figure body charges at 4K with this card.

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So there you go, a wee snippet of what this card can do. Now, clearly that is solely actually consultant of the type of body charges you will get out of the RTX 5070 in video games with the Multi Body Era characteristic accessible, and never the way it will cope with each sport when solely commonplace rendering is obtainable. However an growing variety of titles are launching with body gen at launch now that every one three GPU makers have their very own possibility. So, it is not an inconsiderable pattern of the massive video games popping out this 12 months.

However how does it carry out in actual body fee numbers, and the way does it rise up towards the prevailing competitors? Nicely, I am afraid you are going to have to attend till our evaluation comes out subsequent week. And perhaps even longer if you wish to see the way it performs towards the brand new competitors.

The GPU race is admittedly hotting up, and this card is the primary shot within the mid-range battle. It should be a captivating week we have arising…