Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I’ve been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share.
The GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card is NVIDIA’s new $549 graphics card offering and comes a few weeks after the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti introduction. The GeForce RTX 5070 will be competing head-to-head with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series that will be available later this week with the Radeon RX 9070 expected to retail starting out at $549 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT at $599. It will be interesting to put the RX 9070 and RTX 5070 head-to-head on Linux but for now it’s just the RTX 5070 review embargo expiry.
Additionally, this initial round of Linux benchmarking for the GeForce RTX 5070 is only looking at the GPU compute performance. Similar to the situation with the recent GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 launches, no Linux “press” driver was available in advance of today’s embargo expiry / launch. The NVIDIA 570 series does recognize the GeForce RTX 5070 but lacks various optimizations and known 3D graphics/gaming performance handicaps. So only after the next NVIDIA Linux driver release with official RTX 5070 support is it recommended for Linux gaming use. But in any event for those curious about the Linux performance potential, today are some GPU compute numbers.
The GeForce RTX 5070 features 6,144 CUDA cores, down from the 8,960 CUDA cores with the recently launched RTX 5070 Ti. The RTX 5070 has a 2.33GHz base clock with 2.51GHz boost clock, 12GB of GDDR7 video memory with a 192-bit bus, and is rated for 250 Watt total graphics power. The RTX 5070 requires a PCIe Gen 5 power cable or via the included power adapter dual PCIe 8-pin cables.
There are three DisplayPort and one HDMI output with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card. Aside from the cut-down GPU engine specs compared to the RTX 5070 Ti, the RTX 5070 has all the same common NVIDIA GPU features for the Blackwell GPU family.
The graphics cards tested for today’s Linux GPU compute comparison included:
– RTX 2070
– RTX 2070 SUPER
– RTX 2080
– RTX 2080 SUPER
– RTX 2080 Ti
– TITAN RTX
– 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
I wasn’t seeded with any GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review sample and thus why no RTX 5070 Ti is part of the benchmark comparison. With the Radeon RX 9070 graphics card launch I’ll be working on some benchmarks with a sub-set of the compute tests that can work with the Radeon graphics stack for those wondering how the RTX 5070 performance compares to the competition while this article is a generational look with CUDA and other compute workloads. Again, Linux gaming benchmarks will come upon the proper RTX 5070 Linux driver release.
