As we approach the official launch of the RTX 5070 next month, the first wave of leaked benchmarks has started to emerge on Geekbench. The results suggest that the RTX 5070, powered by a slightly cut-down GB205 die with 48 SMs and 12GB of GDDR7 memory, fails to definitively outperform the RTX 4070 Super.

According to the benchmarks, the RTX 5070 is up to 20% slower than the RTX 5070 Ti, despite offering a 20% lead over the base RTX 4070. This indicates that the performance gap between the RTX 5070 and the RTX 4070 Super is not as significant as one might expect, and the RTX 5070 may struggle to surpass the RTX 4070 Super in some scenarios.

The benchmark tests were conducted using an identical setup, which included the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor on the Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard, paired with 32GB of DDR5 memory. However, it is important to note that Geekbench benchmarks may not always reflect real-world performance.

With AMD's RDNA 4 architecture expected to shake up the $500-$600 market in the coming days, the RTX 5070's performance against the upcoming RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT remains to be seen. AMD's leaked benchmark results suggest the RX 9070 non-XT could be 21% faster than the RX 7900 GRE in 4K, placing it in the same performance range as the RTX 4070 Super.