At CES 2025, NVIDIA boasted its new GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs capable of doubling the performance of RTX 40 series counterparts, and even made claims of RTX 5070 being as fast as RTX 4090. Look closer and you’ll find out the newer cards are given an advantage in the form of Multi-Frame Generation (MFG), but what happens when both cards are compared with the same feature set enabled?
RTX 50 Series: Mostly AI, And A Bit More Grunt
The benchmarks released by NVIDIA earlier on mostly focuses on DLSS 4-enabled performance, and on first look you’d think the card is universally 2x faster than the old one. Except, most of them have MFG enabled – at the left corner you’ll see cases where games like Resident Evil 4 and Horizon Forbidden West, both of which lacks MFG support, which forms a more apples-to-apples comparison for the newer and older cards.
The result, according to ComputerBase’s calculations (via Videocardz), shows the RTX 5090 is just 33% faster than the RTX 4090, while RTX 5080 is only 15% over its predecessor; both RTX 5070 variants are roughly 20% faster than their respective counterparts in RTX 40 series. While these numbers are quoted from just these two games, it does paint a picture of what the performance may look like if you prefer not to use MFG (especially given NVIDIA’s tendency to cherry-pick numbers), and that makes the value proposition of these new cards less desirable.
Still, keep in mind this is first-party benchmarks so any numbers can still be inflated or skewed in other ways to put the new products in a different light. Ultimately we’ll have to wait for the reviews to verify the performance of these Blackwell-powered cards, and that may happen in the coming weeks as NVIDIA plans to release the top tier models by the end of this month, with two more to follow in February.
Pokdepinion: That’s less than what I expected – I was guessing around 40%, which would still be a relatively solid uplift.
