MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio Review: Boosted Mid-Range Blackwell

With all of the AI, creator, and synthetic tests out of the way, let's move on to the actual games. Homeworld 3 is the latest installment in the long-running real-time strategy (RTS) series, developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software. Released in mid-2024, Homeworld 3 continues the space saga that began with the original Homeworld game. We tested Homeworld 3 at a couple of resolutions -- up to 4K -- with and without resolutions scaling enabled.

Homeworld 3 Benchmarks

Homeworld 3


Homeworld 3 MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio Details @ 4K

The midrange GPUs are all bunched together in Homeworld 3. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio and latest Radeons trade blows depending on the resolution, but the deltas separating the cards are quite small.

With FSR 2 or DLSS enabled (sans frame generation, Balanced preset), framerates increase, but the rankings in this game don't. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio is right in the mix with the Radeon RX 9070 XT cards and RTX 4070 Ti.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio falters a bit in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. Here, the card actually finishes behind the older RTX 4070, which doesn't make much sense. We suspect there may be a driver bug at play here.


This game supports DLSS and FSR 3, and frame generation is an option too. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio is able to put up triple digit framerates here when frame gen is enabled, but performance isn't quite where it should be.

The Talos Principle II Testing

Assassin's Creed Mirage Benchmarks

There's not much new report with this game. The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio lands in its familair postition at both resoutions, above the FE, but slightly behing the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.

Black Myth: Wukong Benchmarks

F1 24 Racing Sim Benchmarks

F1 24 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) features and NVIDIA technologies, like DLSS with frame generation. We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what these graphics cards could do.

F1 24

F1 24 has the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio slightly outrunning NVIDIA's Founders Edition RTX 5070, but it trails the RTX 4070 Ti and latest Radeons by wide margins.


With DLSS or FSR 2 (Balanced) enabled in F1 24, all of the cards appear faster, but it doesn't help the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio close the gap. It's still able to break the triple digit FPS mark, but it's not enough to catch the Radeons.

Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time all the way back in 1988, and the intervening 30-odd years has not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the '80s imagined what the future would look like.

The PC game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technology and features support for DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations. Although it is no longer considered a new title, Cyberpunk 2077 remains a showcase for many advanced graphics technologies.

We tested a pre-release version of Cyberpunk 2077 that's been updated with support for DLSS 4's transformer model and multi-frame generation. This is an important note because Cyberpunk foreshadows how future games, that are optimized for the Blackwell GPU architecture and the RTX 50 series, may perform relative to previous-gen GPUs. 

With native rendering, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio end up trailing the latest Radeons in Cyberpunk at both resolutions, but it's not too far behind the Radeon RX 9070. This is another game that can put a hurting on today's GPUs at its higher image quality settings, though. Time for some resolution scaling and frame generation...


This is the story NVIDIA wants shouted from the rooftops. As you can see, with each successive level of DLSS with multi-frame generation enabled, the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio blows past the RTX 4070 Ti and ultimately surpasses the latest Radeons. Injecting those additional frames boosts perceived performance dramatically.

Because this game also supports NVIDIA Reflex technology, latency is also low enough that you still feel engaged while playing with multi frame generation enabled, and image quality is also improved thanks to the use of the updated transformer model. You can see some of the ways the new DLSS transformer model helps image quality here.