Alright, so you’ve read all the reviews of Nvidia’s newest generation of graphics cards: the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070. You know how powerful they are (or aren’t), and you’re ready to spend an insane amount of time hunting one down.
But the real question for hardcore gamers is… how do they handle Fortnite? We show you in the latest PCWorld YouTube video. (Okay, maybe that’s only a question if you’re the kind of degenerate PC gamer who still plays Fortnite after you’ve gotten gray hairs. I’m in that particular brigade, as is my fellow Fortnite fan Will Smith.)
Will loaded up a Fortnite replay — a recorded session that renders in the game’s live engine — and applied the recommended competitive settings from Reddit at 4K, then let the test bench rip with all the new RTX 50-series cards, plus the RTX 4090 for comparison’s sake. Adam assisted on whiteboard duty, showing off the technical side of these breakdowns.
The results are, frankly, pretty much what you’d expect. The cards are right in line with their relative power and pricing, with the RTX 4090 falling between the new 5090 and 5080. The good news is that the cheapest RTX 5070 (“cheap” if you can consider $550 cheap… and can actually find one at that price) hits over 150 FPS at 4K with those competitive settings, which is nothing to sneeze at.
It is in absolutely no way, shape, or form the equivalent of a 4090, no matter what Nvidia says about DLSS (which isn’t really applicable to competitive multiplayer games at high levels anyway). But it is promising if you’re looking to upgrade your gaming PC, specifically for one of the most popular multiplayer shooters on the planet.
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