Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Isn’t a Miracle Worker; It’s Just a Solid Card for Non-4K Gaming

The $550 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition looks like the toy version of the larger RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. It’s a third the size and offers a third of the performance of the highest-end GPU. But will it truly hit the performance needed to offer up solid framerates at 4K resolution? Read on to find out (spoiler: occasionally, in some games, but not always). Nvidia has a harder sell, since AMD now has its $550 Radeon RX 9070 and $600 9070 XT out in the open. If AMD can figure out how to produce enough 9070 XTs to meet demand, we imagine it could become a thorn in Nvidia’s side, especially considering the raging stock issues plaguing its latest GPUs. We’ll have our thoughts about AMD’s slate soon, but for now let’s focus on Nvidia’s newest, cheapest GPU option. The current cheapest Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics card is, as it stands, the card you get for maxing out games at 1440p. What about 4K, you ask? The minimum you want for that is still the RTX 5070 Ti. We seriously doubt y ... Read full article.