MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio Review: Boosted Mid-Range Blackwell
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (4.7GHz - 5.2GHz, 8-Core) MSI X870E Carbon WiFi 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7900 XTX XFX Radeon RX 9070 XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Powercolor Radeon RX 9070 XT GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 5070 MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio GeForce RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 5080 Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 AMD Radeon v24.30.31.03 NVIDIA Drivers v571.86 / v572.30 |
Benchmarks Used: MLPerf Client Geekbench AI Procyon AI Text Generation Procyon AI Stable Diffusion XL Blender v4.3 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v4.3.1 V-Ray UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Games Tested: Assassin's Creed Mirage Black Myth Wukon Homeworld 3 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 (press beta) The Talos Principle II F1 24 |
MLPerf Client Benchmarks
The MLPerf Client benchmark was designed by MLCommons to evaluate machine learning inference tasks on PCs. It focuses on client form factors and aims to measure how well different hardware and software configurations handle four different AI workloads using a single model. It supports DirectML via ONNX Runtime for a wide range of hardware, but Intel also gets a specialized OpenVINO path for now. Participants in MLCommons are also able to optimize the models for their hardware, but must meet strict guidelines for accuracy.
The MLPerf Client benchmark had the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio landed just about where you'd expect it -- just slightly ahead of NVIDIA's lower clocked Founders Edition card.
Geekbench AI Testing
Geekbench AI is a cross-platform benchmark tool designed to evaluate the performance of AI workloads on a wide range devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. It measures the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs (Neural Processing Units) across different operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux with an array of machine learning tasks.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio trades blows with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in Geekbench AI, and slightly outpaces the NVIDIA Founders Edition version in two of the three tests. AMD's just released Radeon RX 9070 series cards are well out in front, however.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio trades blows with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in Geekbench AI, and slightly outpaces the NVIDIA Founders Edition version in two of the three tests. AMD's just released Radeon RX 9070 series cards are well out in front, however.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmarks
The Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark is a tool developed by UL Solutions to evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Windows PCs. It features real-world use cases and uses seven prompts with both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and non-RAG queries. It tests various AI models like Phi-3.5-mini, Mistral-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and Llama-2-13B. These tests were run using ONNX with DirectML, not TensorRT, which is optimal for NVIDIA's RTX series discrete GPUs, but unavailable in this test at this time with this particular test.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
With all four models, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio finishes right on top of the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition, and blows past everything in AMD's line-up. For this particular set of LLM workloads, NVIDIA's got a clear edge, unless AMD can work some software optimzation magic.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Details
With all four models, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio finishes right on top of the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition, and blows past everything in AMD's line-up. For this particular set of LLM workloads, NVIDIA's got a clear edge, unless AMD can work some software optimzation magic.
Blender v4.3 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio performed relatively well in Blender, slotting in just behind the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, but ahead of NVIDIA's Founders Edition RTX 5070 and way out in front of anything in the Radeon camp.
V-Ray Rendering
The V-Ray Benchmark is a free tool that measures rendering performance on CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both. The GPU benchmark in particular features a complex scene designed to evaluate the capabilities of both the RTX and CUDA-based V-Ray 6 render engines.
We tested V-Ray using the higher-performing RTX render engine, which leverages the RT cores in NVIDIA GPUs -- sorry, no support for Radeons here. In any case, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio finishes about 3% ahead of the Founders Edition card.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that determines the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW video frames. The tool can be used to evaluate performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting four results here, at 8K and 4K resolutions, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
At both resolutions and compression levels, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio and NVIDIA's own Founders Edition put up identical numbers. For Blackmagic RAW decoding, NVIDIA's latest cards offer excellent performance.
