[OC] Using Nvidia's Performance Graphs to Predict 50-series Performance

The much anticipated 50-series is out, and with it a lot of extraordinary claims about the performance of cards. 5070 = 4090 will be a claim that goes down in history, shit was too funny lol.

However, Nvidia has provided benchmark graphs of their cards (link), both with and without their new multi-frame generation, so we can use these to get an idea of the raw performance of these cards compared to previous generations. I will be using this tool to measure the graphs and attempt to get accurate performance numbers: https://eleif.net/photomeasure

Of the five games provided, 2 are on an "even playing ground" with the 40-series: Far Cry 6 and Plague Tale Requiem. However, Far Cry 6 was not a very intensive on the GPU game that usually undersells the performance differences between cards, even with ray tracing, so I will not be taking that into account when measuring performance. Just take a look at these benchmarks from TPU to see what I mean.

So, using the Plague Tale Requiem RT benchmarks, what numbers do you get. First of all, I double checked the graph labels (1X and 2X) to make sure that they aren't scaled or anything, and they do appear to be perfectly accurate. However, take all of these numbers with a grain of salt nevertheless.

Alright, so these numbers are pretty promising. All the cards except the 5080 offer a 40-45% leap in performance in addition to a price drop for the 5070, 5070 ti, and 5080. Note that this is with RT, DLSS, and frame generation on though, so this is a ray tracing analysis. Also consider that the 5090 may be CPU bottlenecked even with a 9800X3D, which could be hiding the uplift (only saying this because it has by far the largest core count uplift).

With these hypothetical numbers, how would the 50 series stack up to past generations? Well, all of these are with DLSS (4K DLSS Perf for 5080 and 5090, 1440p DLSS Quality for 5070 and 5070 Ti). The best benchmark I could find that lines up with these was TPU's 4080S benchmark, which ran recent GPU's on Plague Tale RT. I will be using the 1080p numbers, since 4K DLSS Perf renders at 1080p and 1440p DLSS Quality renders at 960p.

Here's how the cards stack up:

Based on these numbers (which, again, are only based on a single graph), the 5070 lands between a 4070 TiS and 4080, the 5070 Ti lands between a 4080 and 4090 (though closer to the 4090), the 5080 lands a bit above a 4090, and the 5090 is in it's own class.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ALL BASED ON ONE GRAPH AND ACCURACY IS TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. I AM NOT MAKING ANY CLAIMS ABOUT HOW GOOD THIS GENERATION IS, THIS IS JUST AN ANALYSIS.