Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 5070 Ti graphics card made its debut in PassMark benchmark tests. However, according to early test results, it failed to outperform the RTX 4070 Ti and did poorly in GPU Compute tests. So, why did the highly anticipated graphics card fail to deliver what was expected?

RTX 5070 Ti fails in early test results: Competing with RTX 4070 Ti

The RTX 5070 Ti scored an average of 30,728, falling behind the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super despite the generation gap. Looking at the benchmark results, it underperformed the RTX 4070 Ti by 3.25%. It was 3.37% behind the RTX 4070 Ti Super.

These differences may seem small at the moment, but the RTX 4070 Ti has thousands of test samples while the RTX 5070 Ti only has 19. So, with driver updates, the performance of the RTX 5070 Ti is expected to improve.

Why is the 5070 Ti’s GPU Compute performance low?

Although the RTX 5070 Ti is close to its competitors in overall graphics performance, it failed to deliver what was expected in GPU Compute tests. RTX 5070 Ti’s GPU Compute score: 15,806 operations/sec. RTX 4070 Ti’s GPU Compute score: 18,807 operations/sec. That’s almost 16% slower than the RTX 5070 Ti.

In fact, it’s on par with the RTX 5070 (14,888 ops/sec). Such a performance loss was not expected since Nvidia offers GDDR7 memory, enhanced RT cores and Tensor cores in the RTX 50 series cards. Since the benchmark results of the RTX 5070 Ti are still in the early stages, this performance may change with driver optimizations.

However, in its current form, it is said to be unable to create the expected generation gap compared to the RTX 4070 Ti. Do you think the RTX 5070 Ti can beat the RTX 4070 Ti with driver updates? You can write your opinions in the comments section below…