Nvidia's RTX 5070 GPU has shown up in a new benchmark, and it already falls way behind RTX 4090 performance, despite the company's claims of having "4090 performance at $549."

Nvidia's unmistakable Founders Edition brand identity makes this RTX 5070 look precisely like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. This housing gives the card a premium look and feel, though as I will discuss later, it also leads to suboptimal thermal performance.

At $549, the RTX 5070 will also come up against AMD’s new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT when they launch on March 6th. If AMD manages to beat Nvidia’s RTX 5070 or come close to the $749 RTX 5070 Ti, that’s going to put a lot of much-needed pressure on Nvidia’s pricing.

Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.

Eteknix found the 9070 XT to be one of the fastest graphics cards ever in its testing, eclipsing all other AMD cards that came before it, and sitting right behind the RTX 4080 16GB. Even ahead of the 7900 XTX.

AMD published the Toyshop real-time path tracing neural rendering tech demo, which has highlighted the impressive capabilities of the RX 9070 XT, considering its sub-$600 MSRP. However, this is when taking the 75-second video in isolation, while some tech enthusiasts and concerned gamers have made comparisons with Nvidia 's latest.