People have raised many doubts about Huang Jenxun’s new statement. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 As fast as the RTX 4090 is, Nvidia just gave me the chance to try both cards side by side to see for myself, and the results are surprising. In Marvel Rivals, the RTX 5070 not only rivals the RTX 4090, it actually beats it. Any questions? Why, of course.

The secret that makes the Nvidia RTX 5070 comparable to the best graphics cards out there is not that it has more GPU horsepower, but that its new Tensor cores support Nvidia DLSS 4. Alternating frames can be generated through AI, and up to three additional frames can be generated between a pair of rendered frames. We can debate whether this is cheating until the cows come home, but I really had a hard time telling the difference in image quality and smoothness between the two test systems I tried at CES.

Both testbeds were set up to run the game at up to 4K resolution, with each GPU supporting the highest level of DLSS. This means that the only difference in settings between the two systems is that the RTX 5070 uses multi-frame generation to run the game, while the RTX 4090 uses standard frame generation.

The RTX 4090 system always hovered around 180fps, while the RTX 5070 system operated at around 240fps – the RTX 5070 was never slower than the 4090. fps, the RTX 5070 device on the right is running at 248 fps.

However, Nvidia also emphasized that Marvel Rivals is an exception here. In most games, the two GPUs are equal in terms of performance (as long as they support multi-frame generation) – it is just that Marvel Rivals responds particularly well to frame generation.

In practice, I honestly couldn’t tell the difference between the two systems, and I played the game for a few minutes on both systems. Whatever magic Nvidia has worked on with multi-frame generation (which we’ll be able to talk more about later), it works surprisingly well, at least in this game. Gameplay is smooth and responsive, and I couldn’t see any noticeable glitches on the RTX 5070 system. This $549 GPU can truly deliver a 4090-level experience in fully optimized games.

That’s the problem. If the game doesn’t support multi-frame generation, then the RTX 4090 will be significantly faster than the RTX 5070 because the underlying GPU has more raw horsepower. It also has more than twice the available VRAM, and the RTX 5070’s mere 12GB of memory prevents it from running at some of the high settings on the RTX 4090 at 4K, even if you enable frame generation.

Still, it’s an impressive demo. With the right settings and the right games, this $549 GPU can truly rival Nvidia’s previous $1,599 flagship. If enough games finally support multi-frame generation in DLSS 4, and implement it well, the RTX 5070 looks set to take home the award for best graphics card in the mid-range category.

The RTX 5070’s release date is approaching, and we hope to spend more time testing it in the coming weeks. You can also read our RTX 5090 guide to see where Nvidia is in the high-end gaming GPU market.