With the Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 launching subsequent week, many potential patrons have been eyeing up the extra budget-oriented (okay, they’re nonetheless going to be fairly costly) playing cards from the 50 sequence and we might doubtlessly get them as quickly as February 20. Nonetheless, as at all times earlier than the launch of a serious card, it is value taking that data with a grain (or teaspoon) of salt.
As reported by Videocardz, retailer Proshop just lately listed an RTX 5070 Ti, and on the very prime of the web page, it says the cardboard is launching on February 20, at 3 PM. I checked out this web page and, as of the time of writing, it nonetheless says it is going to be launching that day. The date and time appear pretty particular however there are just a few the explanation why this might be the case.
The primary is that that is merely a placeholder date given within the system, that may not have been supposed to really go dwell on the web site. After I first noticed this data, that was my intuition. I am ready for many dates earlier than huge gaming moments to be some kind of admin error that’s being blown out of proportion. Nonetheless, this one is a slight bit completely different.
The web page in query has that particular date and time however so too does each RTX 5070 Ti I might discover on Proshop from any model. There are at the moment two pages of search outcomes for RTX 5070 Ti on the storefront and each single one in every of them has the identical date and time. That is definitely peculiar, particularly when you think about no such date has been given for the 5070, which simply says it would launch sooner or later in March.
Proshop is a good Danish retailer however there’s a potential different trigger for each single 5070 Ti having the identical date. We do not know the small print of the backend of the positioning however one thing like this might have a broader web site class and the web page furnishings, like ‘sizzling’ and ‘new’, and the discharge date on the prime might be mechanically added to merchandise of a sure class. The truth that all 5070s have the identical primary launch date formatting might again this up too.
Primarily, what I am saying is do not e-book that break day to face in line to your shiny new graphics card (particularly when you think about some producers are getting a ‘single digit’ quantity of playing cards). Nonetheless, I believe there’s extra purpose to concentrate to this particular launch date than most pre-launch rumours.
And sure, the RTX 4070/Ti playing cards launched considerably longer than a month after the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090, however the 50-series does not appear to be following the earlier era’s launch cadence this time round, so who is aware of? All I am saying is, for those who’re on the hunt for a brand new RTX 5070 Ti, it isn’t not possible that you can have one by this time subsequent month.
Proshop simply so occurs to have 28 completely different 5070 Ti playing cards out there, for those who dwell in Europe. I would know as I counted all of them, every one.