Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder’s Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 as a reminder has 6144 CUDA cores, 2.51GHz boost clock, 2.33GHz base clock, and 12GB of GDDR7 video memory with a 192-bit memory bus. The RTX 5070 shares the common NVIDIA Blackwell features like DLSS 4 support, 5th Gen Tensor Cores, 4th Gen RT Cores, etc.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 has a $549 USD list price though as of writing now three weeks post launch, the available GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards are retailing for $699 USD and above. There are even some RTX 5070 graphics cards retailing for $769. At suggested retail prices and the specs, the GeForce RTX 5070 is positioned to go up against the Radeon RX 9070 series with the AMD RX 9070 going for around $549 and the RX 9070 XT for $599.
When using the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux driver the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder’s Edition was running great on Ubuntu Linux from graphics/gaming workloads with both OpenGL and Vulkan to various GPU compute workloads with OpenCL and CUDA. With already having posted the initial GPU compute benchmarks earlier this month, this article is an initial look at the Linux gaming performance compared to other NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards and the AMD Radeon competition.
For this comparison there are results for the:
– RTX 2070
– RTX 2070 SUPER
– RTX 2080
– RTX 2080 SUPER
– RTX 2080 Ti
– RTX 3070
– RTX 3070 Ti
– RTX 3080
– RTX 3090
– RTX 4070
– RTX 4070 SUPER
– RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
– RTX 4080
– RTX 4080 SUPER
– RTX 4090
– RTX 5070
– RTX 5080
– RTX 5090
– RX 7700 XT
– RX 7800 XT
– RX 7900 GRE
– RX 7900 XT
– RX 7900 XTX
– RX 9070
– RX 9070 XT
All tests were done on the same Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake system running Ubuntu 24.10.
With no Linux support caveats to mention for the GeForce RTX 5070 on the official driver stack, let’s continue to the benchmarks.
