"Old Huang is deceiving people"! 5070 first batch review: promised to compete with 4090 at 1/3 the price, but actually worse than 4070 Ti

Overnight, the RTX 5070 has been criticized by netizens as the "worst 70 series in history."

What's going on?

Because Jensen Huang said this when he announced the RTX 5070 at CES in January:

Thanks to AI, our new mid-range GPU performance can rival the previous fastest consumer GPU (4090), but the price is only $549.

The price of the RTX 5070 is indeed only one-third of the 4090, but has its performance really caught up?

After a wave of tests by bloggers, the results were quite surprising—it's completely not the case.

To save time, let's get straight to the conclusion:

The performance of the 5070 does not reach the level of the 4090.

In terms of actual rendering speed, the 5070 is even worse than the 4080 and 4070 Ti.

Although it is faster than the 4070 Super, its power consumption is higher than that.

Well, it's not hard to understand why so many bloggers are criticizing the 5070 today.

AI Black Technology Failed to Improve Performance

After looking through various bloggers' reviews of the 5070, I found that they mainly focused on several dimensions such as specifications, performance, power consumption, and competitors.

First, let's take a look at the parameter details:

The 5070 has a CUDA core count of 6144, which is right between the RTX 4070 and 4070 Super.

It is equipped with 12GB of GDDR7 memory, which actually exceeds the critical standard of "8GB."

Because if you want to achieve a resolution higher than 1080p and ultra-high-quality texture effects, you must meet this standard.

But a particularly "eye-catching" data point is the power consumption of the 5070: it can reach up to 250W at full load.

This is a full 30W higher than the 4070 Super.

Although the 5070 series is still more energy-efficient than older graphics cards like the 3070 or 3080, the energy-saving advantage of the 5070 is no longer as obvious as that of the 4070 series From a design perspective, compared to the larger and more powerful 5080 and 5090, the 5070 adopts a different dual-slot design.

In terms of size, the 5070 has the same physical dimensions as the 4070 and 4060, but the power connector has been updated to an angled configuration instead of extending directly from the top of the card.

In addition, NVIDIA has also changed the design of the 5070's cooler, placing both fans on the same side of the graphics card (instead of one on each side).

After a series of tests, the blogger concluded regarding cooling performance:

Whether due to the updated cooler design or other reasons, the 5070 runs hotter than all other graphics cards we tested (including the 5090).

Next, let's take a look at the key performance tests.

Jensen Huang mentioned during the CES launch that one of the biggest highlights of the RTX 50 series is the DLSS4 AI upscaling and multi-frame interpolation technology brought by the new architecture.

However, the actual results are somewhat disappointing.

For example, one reviewer compared the 5070 and 4090 across 16 games.

From the results, at 1440p, the 4090 is on average 63% faster than the 5070.

For instance, in "Uncharted: The Great Circle," with ray tracing enabled, the 5070, with only 12GB of VRAM, could not run the game properly, achieving an average frame rate of only 13 FPS, while the 4090 handled it effortlessly.

In other games like "Marvel Duel," the 5070 is only 15% faster than the 4070 from two years ago and just 3% faster than the 4070 Super, but the performance gap with the 4090 is even more pronounced.

In "The Last of Us Part I," the frame rates of the 5070 and 4070 Super are similar, both around 90 FPS, indicating that the 5070 has a significant performance gap compared to the high-end 4090 in most games at 1440p resolution.

Not only at 1440p, but the performance of the 5070 at 4K resolution is still not ideal.

In "Cyberpunk 2077," the 5070, with quality enhancement enabled at 4K resolution, has an average frame rate of only 31 FPS. The blogger bluntly stated, "disappointing, in stark contrast to the high performance of the 4090."

Similarly, in "Black Myth: Wukong," the 5070, with quality enhancement enabled at 4K resolution, only achieves a frame rate of 25 FPS, which is completely incomparable to the RTX 4090.

Coincidentally, similar situations have also appeared in reviews from other bloggers.

In summary, after the evaluations, bloggers believe that the 5070, due to its limited capabilities, can handle 1440p games but struggles to keep up with high-performance games.

They also believe that Jensen Huang's AI black technology has not been effective.

In addition, market competition is also a focal point for many bloggers.

This is because AMD's Radeon RX 9070 series is about to be launched, with an expected price of $550 (just $1 more than the 5070), and it may be faster with more video memory.

Bloggers believe that the RX 9070 could pose a very direct competitive threat to the 5070.

Of course, the PK between these two graphics cards is something everyone has been looking forward to recently.

5090 Also Reported to Have Issues

However, to be fair, the recent issues with NVIDIA's new series of graphics cards have indeed been frequently reported.

Not long ago, many users reported problems with the 5080 and 5090 experiencing crashing black screens—

Users from various parts of the world have recently reported that these two graphics cards frequently encounter severe issues such as black screen crashes and system recognition failures, with some even experiencing "bricking" cases.

Following that, NVIDIA acknowledged a new defect in the 5090.

It was advertised that the 5090 should have 176 ROPs (Render Output Processors), but some users received only 168, resulting in a 4.5% loss.

Moreover, multiple different versions from various distributors have encountered the same issue

ROP is the final hardware component of the GPU, handling one of the last steps in the rendering process. All rendering data must pass through the ROP before being sent to the framebuffer, and then output as an image.

The absence of ROP most noticeably affects game performance, leading to lower frame rates, increased latency, and reduced anti-aliasing performance, which significantly impacts the gaming experience.

NVIDIA explained that this issue is due to production problems, and the same phenomenon has been observed in the 5090D and the newly released 5070Ti (which normally has 96 ROPs).

NVIDIA also stated that the number of affected cards accounts for less than 0.5%, and the production anomaly has been corrected. Affected users can contact the distributor for a replacement.

However, some netizens pointed out that 0.5% represents a significant failure rate, as the denominator in normal statistics is usually in the millions, especially for high-end devices like the 5090.

Regarding the ROP absence issue, NVIDIA at least provided a solution for replacements.

However, the previously reported "bricking" issue still has no solution, and this problem is even more serious than the missing ROP.

These two issues alone have already sparked considerable discussion about NVIDIA graphics cards in the community.

Now, because the 5070 failed to achieve what Jensen Huang claimed as "1/3 the price for 4090 performance," it has become a topic of discussion again.

One More Thing

However, amidst the numerous criticisms of the 5070 in discussions and videos today, there is also an interesting "praise" voice:

The cover of this video is really well done.

Article author: Quantum Bit, source: Quantum Bit, original title: "Jensen Huang is deceiving! 5070 First Batch Reviews: Promised 1/3 the price to compete with 4090, but actually worse than 4070Ti"

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