- A variety of RTX 5070 fashions have been listed at MSRP within the US
- This seems to trace that pricing for the GPU may come out favorably
- There are many causes to doubt that, although, sadly
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics playing cards have been noticed full with pricing at retailers forward of their imminent launch (tomorrow, March 5), and what we’re seeing is one thing of a nice shock – on the face of it.
There are causes to be very cautious right here, although, which I’ll come again to.
At any price, first the costs themselves, and Wccftech reviews {that a} common {hardware} leaker on X, @momomo_us, picked up on B&H Picture over within the US itemizing plenty of RTX 5070 fashions with worth tags (that are nonetheless dwell on the time of writing).
These are RTX 5070s from third-party card makers that are pitched on the official MSRP, and whereas some are entry-level boards as you would possibly count on, there are overclocked fashions in right here too.
The latter are PNY’s RTX 5070 OC variant which is priced on the MSRP of $550, together with Gigabyte’s WindForce OC – and the entry-level WindForce is on the similar $550 worth, in addition to the Asus Prime RTX 5070.
Beforehand, Greatest Purchase has additionally listed the Asus Prime RTX 5070 on the $550 really useful worth, too (and that product itemizing stays unchanged as I write this).
So, as talked about on the outset, this might be learn as an encouraging signal that the price of RTX 5070 GPUs would possibly fall moderately in keeping with Nvidia’s really useful pricing.
As I indicated earlier than, although, I’m not studying it that method, and let’s dive into why that’s the case.
Evaluation: Getting actual for a second
Okay, there are a number of bones to select with this one (maybe a whole carcass). Firstly, with the B&H Picture pricing, it doesn’t make any sense that the WindForce fashions can be the identical – the entry-level and overclocked mannequin – the latter absolutely received’t be at MSRP (the previous needs to be, granted).
Simply take a look at these similar variants within the case of the present RTX 5080 and also you’ll see that Gigabyte costs the OC model at simply over 25% costlier. There’s no method this received’t be mirrored with the RTX 5070 (at the least to some extent, anyway, even when it’s not as huge a soar).
What this reveals is that these are (at the least partially) placeholder costs from B&H, although that stated, it’s fully seemingly that the entry-level Gigabyte WindForce, and certainly the likes of the Asus Prime RTX 5070, will probably be at MSRP. Bear in mind, the latter is priced on the MSRP over at Greatest Purchase as nicely, and these are entry-level boards that ought to be mounted on the base really useful pricing.
Anyway, the broad level right here is let’s not get carried away with the notion that in some way overclocked RTX 5070 boards away from the baseline fashions will probably be at MSRP – they received’t. Hopefully entry-level flavors will – they completely needs to be – however there’s an apparent second downside right here that looms massive.
Particularly that pricing may be type of tutorial anyway, based mostly on how the Blackwell GPU launches have gone thus far – inventory ranges have been very low on the whole, and all RTX 5000 fashions have bought out in a flash. Going by the newest rumors, RTX 5070 inventory goes to be a lot the identical story, or possibly even worse than the RTX 5090 (which was notably shaky).
The issue in that case is that pricing tends to be pumped above MSRP (even by retailers, not simply scalpers) merely on account of demand, as we’ve seen already with Blackwell.
And you will get pricing dynamics coming in reminiscent of MSI reportedly climbing its entry-level Blackwell boards nicely above MSRP (as VideoCardz observed). This occurred briefly within the case of the RTX 5070 Ti, however the card maker now appears to have thought higher of it, and diminished pricing once more on the MSI retailer. (Not at Newegg, thoughts, on the time of writing, the place the Ventus 3X OC model of the 5070 Ti stays at its artificially inflated worth of $900 – and MSI’s RTX 5080 boards stay nicely over their MSRP at its personal on-line retailer, too, for now).
Not you could purchase these GPUs anyway, even should you needed to pay that a lot.
In brief, the entire scenario round Blackwell graphics playing cards is a little bit of a large number, and I’m going to be very shocked if issues end up a lot completely different with the RTX 5070. And undoubtedly don’t count on any cheap costs for overclocked 5070 fashions, that basically is simply pie within the GPU sky.
In the meantime, AMD has RDNA 4 graphics playing cards sweeping in on March 6, apparently with more healthy inventory ranges, inflicting an additional headache for Nvidia, probably.
