NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance
When taking the geometric mean of this initial batch of Linux gaming/graphics workloads tested, the GeForce RTX 5070 was in front of the Radeon RX 9070 and nearly matching the Radeon RX 9070 XT on Linux. The GeForce RTX 5070 performance nearly matched the GeForce RTX 3090 and was around 8% faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER or 25% faster than the RTX 4070. Particularly if you are on a GeForce RTX 3070 or older, there can be quite an advantage to upgrading to Blackwell -- assuming you get lucky with retail availability and pricing. The GeForce RTX 5070 was very competitive with the Radeon RX 9070 series that at suggested pricing are similar but the NVIDIA graphics card did tend to boast greater performance-per-Watt and was certainly the much stronger contender for the ray-tracing workloads compared to the current state of the open-source RADV driver.
When looking at the GPU power consumption across the entire span of tests, the RTX 5070 was at around a 185 Watt average and peak of 253 Watts compared to the Radeon RX 9070 at a 204 Watt average and 248 Watt peak.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition graphics card did operate well and under load had an average temperature of 65 degrees with a recorded peak of 79 degrees.
👁 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 FE on Linux
Thanks to NVIDIA for providing the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder's Edition review sample and stay tuned for more Blackwell benchmarks on Phoronix.
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