GeForce RTX 5070 FE Review: NVIDIA’s More Affordable Blackwell Tested

Speed Way is the most recent addition to the UL 3DMark graphics test suite. Speed Way uses the DirectX 12 Ultimate API and leverages advanced features like DirectX Ray Tracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and ray traced reflections, Mesh Shaders, and high resolution textures and artwork. All of the graphics cards here were testing using the default benchmark options should you want to compare the performance of your system to our test rig...

UL 3DMark Speed Way DX12 Ultimate Benchmarks

In 3DMark's most-taxing DX12 test with ray tracing, the GeForce RTX 5070 FE clearly outruns the RTX 4070 by over 20%, but it can't quite catch the RTX 4070 Ti.

UL's SystemInfo hardware monitor during this benchmark run shows nice stable clocks for the GeForce RTX 5070 FE, with relatively modest temperatures as well, which is something you'll see throughout all of the hardware health data posted in this review. 

UL 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Benchmarks

3DMark Steel Nomad is one of the newer cross-platform GPU benchmarks developed by UL Solutions as part of the 3DMark suite. This test is designed to evaluate the performance of modern gaming hardware in non-ray-traced scenarios, but using otherwise advanced rendering techniques with DX12.

With ray tracing removed from the equation, the GeForce RTX 5070 FE retains a significant lead over the previous-gen RTX 4070, but the RTX 4070 Ti pulls ahead by about 11%. The RTX 5070 Ti is a significant step up as well.

VR Benchmarks: Unigine Superposition And VRMark

Superposition is an aging benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

Unigine's VR Future benchmark has the GeForce RTX 5070 FE and RTX 4070 Ti finishing right on top of each other, leaving the older RTX 4070 in the dust.

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark was designed to test a PC’s readiness for HMDs like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is the most taxing test offered by the tool.


VRMark has the GeForce RTX 5070 FE landing in a familiar position, between the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti. No surprises here.