When Nvidia announced the RTX 50-series, it said that the RTX 5070 would offer performance equivalent to the last-gen flagship at a fraction of the price. Since then, gamers have been looking forward to seeing how this plays out, and we just got our first hint. According to an early benchmark, the RTX 5070 may be far from dethroning the RTX 4090, which remains one of the best graphics cards.
These benchmarks, first spotted by VideoCardz, popped up on Geekbench earlier today. We’ve got two tests to dig into, including Vulkan and OpenCL. I know what you’re probably thinking — these benchmarks aren’t the best way to tell whether a graphics card is a gaming beast or not, but for now, they’re all we’ve got, and they do give us a bit of a reference point for the RTX 5070.
The GPU scored 188,712 in Vulkan and 187,414 in OpenCL. It was paired with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32GB RAM; however, the latter was running at a very low MT/s, so there might have been some error in Geekbench or the system in question.
Comparing these scores to the recently released RTX 5070 Ti reveals a sizeable gap between the two, with the 5070 being up to 20% slower. This isn’t an unexpected result, given that the GPU is set to start at $550. However, we do have to account for various issues with availability and high pricing. I honestly won’t be surprised if this card is priced at $750 and up in the first few weeks; after all, I spotted the RTX 5070 Ti for up to $1,900 last week. This week, it’s largely sold out.
Aside from being slower than the RTX 5070 Ti, the RTX 5070 does seem to offer a decent generational uplift. These two benchmarks place it somewhere between the RTX 4070 and the RTX 4070 Ti, which is fair, but it’s also a far cry from the RTX 4090-equivalent performance Nvidia teased during its CES 2025 keynote.
Of course, that performance might still be possible with DLSS 4. Although the initial announcement sounded catchy, most gamers quickly figured out that the RTX 5070 is unlikely to offer the same performance as the RTX 4090 if we’re talking about “real” frame rates. Instead, using Nvidia’s Multi-Frame Generation tech may push the GPU to new heights, and some of those heights might outperform the $1,600 RTX 4090. These early benchmarks only serve to prove that Nvidia’s claim is likely heavily supported by DLSS 4.
It won’t be long before we can check out the RTX 5070 in the flesh. The card is set to launch on March 5, and reviewers will undoubtedly try to verify whether the RTX 5070 can truly outperform the RTX 4090.
Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).