RTX 5070 Ti trails RTX 4070 Ti and narrowly shakes off RTX 4070 in early benchmark results

It’s unclear if it’s the benchmark or the cards, but new Blackwell GeForce RTX 50-series units have been offering a mixed bag of results on PassMark recently. The RTX 5090 has flipped between being the high-end video card champion to runner-up behind the RTX 4090, and now we have some samples of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti also telling a similar tale in terms of generational performance comparisons. The RTX 5070 Ti was able to produce a decent average result of 30,728 points, but it could not overhaul the older RTX 4070 Ti (2023 - Asus TUF Gaming variant available on Amazon) and RTX 4070 Ti Super (2024) boards.

Only 19 samples of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti card have appeared on the site so far, so it can be expected that results will improve in time, especially if drivers are updated and any other issues are corrected (missing ROPs for a start). The RTX 5070 Ti’s result is only -3.25% behind the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and -3.37% behind the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. Both of those Ada Lovelace generation cards have had thousands of samples tested so far, so this situation shouldn’t be too disconcerting for RTX 5070 Ti owners. In addition, the new graphics card has been spotted on other benchmarks performing as well as could be expected and surpassing RTX 4070-related predecessors. It also performed very well in our thorough testing.

What might be a little perturbing though, is something that also happened with a comparison between the RTX 5090 and RTX 4090: The GPU Compute score for the RTX 5070 Ti is way down on the average result for the RTX 4070 Ti. The relative results are 15,806 operations per second against 18,807 operations per second, leaving the Blackwell board lagging by almost -16% (see screenshot below). Of course, Nvidia has brought lots of upgrades to the RTX 50-series cards, such as GDDR7 memory and updated generations of RT cores and Tensor cores, but it still looks out of place to see something like the RTX 5070 Ti (15,806 Ops/sec) in a similar realm as a standard RTX 4070 (14,888 Ops/sec) in a benchmark such as GPU Compute.