GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1070 (22/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1070

22/100
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GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 28.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 20.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 18705 87569
Night Raid 72459 206648
Port Royal 1283 38202
Solar Bay 16030 236689
Time Spy 6091 46873
Wild Life Extreme 12186 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 6.1 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 72 299
1080p Ultra 57 254
1440p Ultra 40 207
4K Ultra 21 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 54493322 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 135956832 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 45442410 26123316077
Far Cry 6 73644724 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 88504125 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 43312413 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 45382913 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 79734825 329302238128
The Witcher 3 83684725 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 15275 85572
Face Detection (HP) 8747 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2295 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 4955 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10587 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 2342 8184
Object Detection (SP) 2960 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 51263 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 104907 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1461 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 142.3 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.23 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 65.1 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.3 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.74 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.2 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5161.6 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 195.6 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Pascal Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GP104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $379 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 7700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released January 10, 2016 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1506 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1683 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 15 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 176
Shading Units 1920 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 120 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 99 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 848 1410
GPU Compute 6123 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 314 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 16 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 150 W 575 W
Transistor Count 7 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 22.29 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 108 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 202 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-08-09(yourtrain) GeekBench —

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