Reviewers Trash RTX 5070 Over NVIDIA’s Misleading 4090 Comparison
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- Nvidia claimed the RTX 5070 would match the RTX 4090’s performance capabilities.
- Reviewers tested the hardware, and discovered that Nvidia’s claim was false.
- The RTX 5070 rivals the RTX 4070 Super’s performance, not the 4090’s performance.
Multiple professional hardware reviewers, including Digital Foundry, Linus Tech Tips, and Gamer’s Nexus, have torn apart the RTX 5070 in their reviews, calling out NVIDIA’s misleading performance claims. The biggest issue stems from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s promise that, ‘thanks to AI,’ the 5070 would match the power of the 4090 at a fraction of the cost— a claim that reviewers found to be completely false.
During Nvidia’s marketing campaign, CEO Jensen Huang claimed the “4090 performance at $549,” essentially stating that the RTX 5070 would rival the 4090’s in performance.
The RTX 5070 debuted at $549, while the RTX 4090’s release price in 2022 was $1,599 – therefore, if the statement were to be true, the RTX 5070 would mark a massive technological leap in hardware – but the marketing claim has been debunked by the hardware reviewing community.
YouTube Hardware Reviewer Gamer Nexus’ testing showcased the visual differences between the 5070 and 4090 when compared using fixed variables – the 4090 objectively comes out on top.
“The 5070 is getting absolutely clobbered for VRAM, which is only 12 gigabytes compared to the 4090’s 24. To call these the same is an absolute, flat up lie,” YouTuber Gamer Nexus stated.
“These cards are not the same. In situations for VRAM in particular, it could never dream to be a 4090. It is simply impossible.”
VRAM is primarily used in game processing to render textures at high resolution, during which it manages a large number of particles on screen. Gamer Nexus’ testing proves the 4090’s supremacy over the newly released RTX 5070 – a conclusion that the vast majority of the hardware reviewing community came to as well.
This indicates that DLSS 4 does not deliver a 4090 performance. Instead, the RTX 5070’s performance was far closer to that of the RTX 4070 Super – which was released in 2023 at a market price of $599. Therefore, the $50 cheaper RTX 5070 is still an upgrade in technology, but not nearly at the level as was advertised.
