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NVIDIA admits RTX 5070 no match for RTX 4090 without DLSS

NVIDIA's own performance charts suggest that the newly unveiled RTX 5070 is only 20 per cent faster than its predecessor.

NVIDIA RTX 5070 starts from Rs 59,000 while the RTX 4090 costs Rs 1,58,000. (Image Source: NVIDIA)

A week ago at the Consumer Electronics Show 2025, NVIDIA, the multi-trillion dollar GPU manufacturer unveiled the RTX 50-series based on the Blackwell architecture, The company’s latest and most powerful graphic card to date consists of four models – RTX 5070, RTX 5070Ti, RTX 5080 and the RTX 5090, with price starting from Rs 59,000.

NVIDIA also made some bold claims, saying that the RTX 50-series GPUs can outperform its predecessors, with the RTX 5070 offering RTX 4090-like performance, the company’s last-gen flagship GPU which costs upwards of Rs 1,58,000.

While the new GPUs may be faster than their predecessor, it looks like the performance bump NVIDIA mentioned can be most attributed to DLSS 4 – the company’s in-house developed image scaling algorithm that inserts fake frames to increase performance.

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NVIDIA RTX 5070 looks more like an iterative upgrade over its predecessor.

NVIDIA RTX 5070 looks more like an iterative upgrade over the RTX 4070. (Image Source: NVIDIA)

To give you a quick recap, the RTX 4090 is almost two times faster compared to the RTX 4070 if you are playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K with ray tracing turned on. At the NVIDIA Editor’s Day event, the company offered some performance details and showed benchmark charts for its latest GPUs, which included a performance comparison between the RTX 50-series and RTX 40-series without DLSS.

Unsurprisingly, the RTX 5070 is around 20 per cent faster than the RTX 4070 when it comes when DLSS is disabled, while the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are only 15 per cent faster than their RTX 40-series counterparts. This means that in the case of ray-tracing or games that do not currently support DLSS 4, NVIDIA’s claim that the RTX 5070 offers RTX 4090-like performance falls completely flat.

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