I just tested the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, and yes it can beat the RTX 4090

There’s been a lot of skepticism about Jensen Huang’s claim that the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is as fast as the RTX 4090, but Nvidia just gave me the chance to try the two cards side-by-side to see for myself, and the result is astonishing. In Marvel Rivals, the RTX 5070 doesn’t just match the RTX 4090, it actually beats it. Is there a catch? Why, of course there is.

The secret behind the Nvidia RTX 5070 squaring up to the current best graphics card isn’t that the former has more GPU horsepower, but rather that its new Tensor cores support Nvidia DLSS 4. Specifically, the use of multi frame generation means the RTX 5070 can generate not just alternate frames with AI, but up to three extra frames between a pair of rendered frames. We can argue until the cows come home about whether this is cheating or not, but I genuinely struggled to tell the difference between the two test systems I tried at CES in terms of image quality and smoothness.