Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs

When the RTX Blackwell GPUs were first announced during CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's CES 2025 keynote, the big news was around the fact the RTX 5070 could deliver the same level of gaming performance as the RTX 4090. That was a new $549 GPU delivering frame rates akin to a $1,600 card of the previous generation.

Then it became clear that such performance claims came with the heavy caveat that you needed to enable DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation to deliver the same frame rates as an RTX 4090 and...