- Several RTX 5070 models have been listed in MSRP in the US.
- This seems to hint that prices for the GPU could leave favorably
- There are many reasons to doubt that, however, unfortunately
NVIDIA RTX 5070 graphics cards have been complete with retail prices before their imminent launch (tomorrow, March 5), and what we are seeing is a pleasant surprise, at first glance.
However, there are reasons to be very cautious here, which I will return.
In any case, first the prices themselves, and WCCFTech reports that a regular hardware filter in X, @Momomo_us, picked up a photo of B&H in the US. UU. Listing a series of RTX 5070 models with price labels (which still live at the time of writing).
These are RTX 5070 of the third -party card manufacturers that are launched in the official MSRP, and although some are input level boards as expected, there are also overclocated models here too.
The latter is the RTX 5070 OC variant of PNY that has a MSRP price of $ 550, together with Windforce OC of Gigabyte, and the Wind Force of entry level has the same price of $ 550, as well as the ASUS Prime RTX 5070.
Previously, Best Buy has also listed the Asus Prime RTX 5070 at the recommended price of $ 550 also (and that list of products remains unchanged while writing this).
So, as mentioned from the beginning, this could be read as an encouraging sign that the cost of the RTX 5070 GPUs could reasonably fall in line with the recommended prices of NVIDIA.
However, as I indicated before, I am not reading it that way, and immerse why that is the case.
Analysis: Be real for a moment
Okay, there are some bones to choose from with this (maybe a complete corpse). First, with the price of the photo of B&H, it makes no sense that Windforce models are the same: the entry level model and overclocked, the latter will surely not be in MSRP (the first one should be, granted).
Just look at these same variants in the case of existing RTX 5080 and you will see that Gigabyte prices have the OC version with just over 25% more expensive. There is no way that this is not reflected with the RTX 5070 (anyway, at least to some extent, even if it is not such a large jump).
What this shows is that these are (at least partially) prices of the B&H position markers, although said, it is completely likely that the gigabyte windforce of entry level, and in fact, the tastes of the ASUS prime RTX 5070, will be in MSRP. Remember, the latter also has a MSRP price in Best Buy, and these are input level boards that ought be fixed in the recommended price of the base.
Anyway, the broad point here is that we do not get carried away by the notion that somehow the RTX 5070 Overclocked tables of the baseline models will be in MSRP, they will not. Hopefully the input level flavors should be absolutely, but there is a second obvious problem here that are peeked out.
That is, the price can be a bit academic anyway, depending on how Blackwell GPU launches have gone so far: stock levels have been very low in general, and all RTX 5000 models have been exhausted in a flash. With the last rumors, the actions of RTX 5070 will be the same story, or perhaps even worse than the RTX 5090 (which was particularly unstable).
The problem in that case is that the price tends to pump above MSRP (even for retailers, not just students) simply due to demand, as we have already seen with Blackwell.
And you can obtain price dynamics, such as MSI, according to reports, your Blackwell input level boards well above MSRP (as video consideration was noticed). This happened briefly in the case of RTX 5070 TI, but the card manufacturer now seems to have thought better and reduced prices again in the MSI store. (Not in Newgg, Mind, at the time of writing, where the 5070 Ti Ventus OC version remains at its artificially inflated price of $ 900, and the RTX 5080 MSI boards remain well on their MSRP in their own online store, for now).
It is not that I can buy these GPUs anyway, even if you want to pay so much.
In summary, the entire situation around Blackwell graphics cards is a bit messy, and it will surprise me a lot if things are very different with the RTX 5070. And you definitely do not expect reasonable prices for the 5070 overclocked models, that really is just cake in the sky of GPU.
Meanwhile, AMD has RDNA 4 graphics cards that go on March 6, apparently with healthier stock levels, causing additional headache for NVIDIA, potentially.
