Nvidia RTX 5070 Launches Today: Mostly Non-MSRP Models Available, Limited Stock of MSRP Cards

Hello hello, and welcome to the pandemonium.

Jacob here. I’ll be spending today keeping my eye on stocks and prices for all these RTX 5070 cards and will keep you posted on anything of interest. Hopefully that’ll be some MSRP cards actually in stock, but we’ll see…

The RTX 5070 is a graphics card that arguably depends on sticking to MSRP or close-to-MSRP pricing more than any other 50-series card launched so far.

That’s primarily because, as Dave points out in his RTX 5070 review, the gen-on-gen performance improvement (excluding Multi Frame Gen) is just 13%, and there’s the looming spectre of the RX 9070-series cards which should offer serious competition if the promised performance is anything to go by.

So yeah, just a handful of MSRP RTX 5070s doesn’t fill me with confidence, but we’ll see…

Various RTX 5070 graphics cards are now listed on Best Buy. I’ve updated the tables above with pricing, but here are the MSRP cards (plus one for $600) on Best Buy:

And yes, that means the Founders Edition RTX 5070 is now listed at Best Buy.

The RTX 5070 is the one our Dave tested for his review, and it’s the one many of you will be wanting to get your hands on. It’s small, looks rather dashing as FE cards tend to, overclocks pretty well, and will actually sell for its MSRP, and MSRP is about as much as many will be wanting to spend on this card, to be honest.

That’s because it feels a little more like an RTX 5060 than an RTX 5070.

As Dave explains: “There are 14% fewer cores here than with the RTX 4070 Super, all on a GB205 GPU which is 11% smaller than the AD104 and has 13% fewer transistors. Essentially, it’s a smaller, simpler, and theoretically cheaper GPU to produce. Traditional logic would argue that those numbers should equate to a lower class chip in any subsequent generation, not an equivalently priced card.”

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And honestly, pictures can sometimes say more than words. So let’s play spot-the-difference with these two images our Jeremy shared with us earlier today—you can click through left and right.

Notice anything? (Hint: It’s not the prices.)

Assuming those OCUK numbers are correct, gamers seem far more interested in the RX 9070/XT cards than the RTX 5070… shocker, I know.

More gamer sentiment:

The subtext of basically every 5070 review today: from r/pcmasterrace

Again, pictures sometimes say more than words (well, pictures with words in, at least…).

And while we’re doing spot the difference, let’s compare these two listings:

Yes, that’s an RTX 5070 that’s just $10 cheaper than an RTX 5070 Ti. Pricing can seem like a cruel joke sometimes, can it not? And let’s not talk about that ‘Coming Soon’ button…

At least Best Buy has actually got its RTX 5070 prices listed, though. Most listings on other retailers still say ‘out of stock’ or ‘coming soon’ or something similar. Newegg’s got a handful of prices listed, too, though.

Newegg now has some more of its RTX 5070s showing prices, which I’ve updated in the tables above. There’s even a card that we didn’t previously think would be going for MSRP but is, in fact, listed for $550, this being the MSI Ventus 2X OC.

In fact, here’s a list of all the Newegg MSRP RTX 5070 cards:

If you want some more analysis of the various RTX 5070 cards being listed in the lead-up to launch, our Jeremy’s just done a nice write up on some of the cards listed on Best Buy, which you can check out here.

Ding ding ding! One hour to launch. You excited? (Maybe don’t answer that…)

We’re a bit down on the RTX 5070, but let’s give the devil its due and talk Multi Frame Gen for a moment. ‘Fake frames’ or not, the tech is impressive… provided you’re already starting from a good baseline frame rate, otherwise the latency is quite bad.

This means that for the RTX 5070, at least, MFG will mostly be good for 1440p gaming, not 4K, and even at 1440p you’re gonna want a decent traditionally rendered baseline frame rate.

Nvidia’s claim was that the RTX 5070 would deliver RTX 4090-level performance—a bold claim, for sure. But as you can see, there is some truth to it… kind of. Just with a bunch of caveats. Primarily the whole ‘good for 1440p, not 4K’ thing, which is true both for frame rates and latency.

Still, I can’t deny there’s something impressive about seeing the raw frame rate comparison between the RTX 5070 and RTX 4090 at 1440p when MFG is enabled. Check out the video below and see for yourself:

Don’t forget about programs like Newegg shuffle, either. I don’t know what deals and combos will be thrown out, but the idea is you enter your email and are in with a chance of being selected—like a lottery system—to get a good deal on a product or a combination of products.

Arguably the main benefit for these lotteries for events like GPU launches these days is just that it gives you an extra chance of getting your mitts on some stock. Because let’s face it, stock is going to be the biggest issue, here. We saw it with the other RTX 50-series card launches, and I doubt the RTX 5070 will be any different, but we’ll see…

All quiet on the stocks and prices front—I don’t see any changes on the US or UK retailers. The calm before the storm…

One thing to note about the RTX 5070 is that while yes, some of the third-party AIB prices are kind of ridiculous (just as with previous launches), a lot of these do feature some pretty hefty overclocks.

For instance, while the $550 RTX 5070 Founders Edition clocks in at 2,515 MHz on the boost clock, the $650 MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC has a 2.61 GHz boost clock. And the $740 Gigabyte RTX 5070 Aorus Master should have a whopping 2.71 GHz boost clock.

The RTX 5070 in general has a lot of overclocking headroom, as indeed does the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti. So in one way it makes sense that AIBs can charge so much more than MSRP for their overclocked versions.

But on the other hand, you could crank a lot of extra performance out of an RTX 5070 FE if you overclocked it yourself, and you’d save yourself a bunch of extra cash… so it’s really a question of whether you’re willing to spend a ton of extra money to not ‘risk’ doing the overclock yourself.

Edit: Oopsie, PNY deleted the post. It jumped the gun, announcing its RTX 5070 as “out now” a few minutes prior to launch. Here’s what it said:

“Last but not least- the @NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5070, out now🔥⏰Step into a new era of gaming and unleash your creativity like never before, taking performance and innovation to exhilarating new heights.Discover the GeForce RTX 5070: https://t.co/iPgiKOJ2Ql#PNY #PNYPro pic.twitter.com/Rxffyru212.”

“Exhilarating new heights” indeed.

Less than 15 minutes before launch, and I’m not sure people are exhilarated… not that I should base that entirely on OCUK’s viewer counts, of course. But remember that 9070 comparison from earlier…

T-minus 10 minutes

5 minutes to go, folks. Fingers on buzzers, because if previous RTX 50-series launches are anything to go by, blink and you might miss the stock.

The RTX 5070 is now launched.

And because I’m sure many of you will be looking to grab a Founders Edition card ASAP, if the stock remains for more than a blink of an eye, here’s where to get one in the US and UK:

And here’s where to get MSRP-priced cards (yes, I just copied the table above, but desperate times call for fast-paced fingers!):

Errr, Best Buy’s listings still say “coming soon”… when is soon?

And Newegg’s cards all seem to be out of stock. Though the Asus Prime is lottery-based. Someone’s gotta get lucky, right?

MSI has a couple of cards in stock… just the expensive ones though.

There are a couple of cards available on Scan (UK)… again, expensive ones. The MSI Gaming Trio can be bought right now for £710. There are a couple others open for pre-order.

A bunch of us here in the PC Gamer hardware den have been refreshing pages and we’ve barely seen any cards actually come in stock, let alone go in and out.

MSI has just one card in stock, now. You can get it here, if you fancy spending $720 on an RTX 5070, that is. And if the page will load…

MSI’s definitely doing the best of the bunch… with seemingly one card in-stock at Scan and Overclockers.

Damn, this Gigabyte card at Newegg had me going for a second, but I click on it, and of course it’s out of stock. Shocker.

The Founders Edition at Best Buy is… drum roll… sold out. Hurray.

That’s true for the UK too, by the way. The RTX 5070 FE is out of stock…

That lone MSI card is still going strong at both Scan and Overclockers UK, though…

Novatech has 8 of those MSI cards left in stock here.

Just four sold! And “going fast.”

What were the stocks to begin with, then?

A different MSI card’s also rockin’ in-stock on Newegg for $720, the Vanguard Launch Edition “including Lucky Blind Box”. Could these couple of MSI cards be the only RTX 5070s that actually exists in the wild? It does make me wonder…

Well, the RTX 5070 launch seems to have been as blood-curdling as the RTX 5070 Ti launch for those looking to get their hands on one of these cards.

Stocks are as ethereal as ever, and if cards did happen to appear in-stock on a retailer for a brief moment, I sure as hell didn’t see them, barring a few select cards from a few select outlets.

And the ones that are in stock are primarily expensive ones, which is difficult to justify and recommend for a card that pushes the envelope very little compared to its previous-gen predecessor.

Can we start looking towards the AMD RX 9070-series cards, yet?

The B&H Photo RTX 5070 graphics cards are “waiting list only”, which means they might be available to those who signed up to stock alerts beforehand.

It seems that things like that are becoming the norm in order to be able to even have a chance at grabbing an Nvidia GPU at launch. Whether it’s pre-orders, Newegg’s lottery system or B&H’s stock alerts, it seems just sitting there refreshing pages doesn’t cut it anymore.

I can’t say I’m too happy about that. But stocks are what they are, I guess.

This Gainward card is in-stock for £650 at Overclockers UK, for now.

And a big salute for the MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC, which is still in stock at Newegg for $650.

Psst… Anyone still here?

There’s still an Asus RTX 5070 in stock, the Asus TUF Gaming RTX 5070 OC for $740 at Newegg.

It’s not really a surprise that it’s the $740 cards that seem to stay in stock, though, is it? That’s almost RTX 5070 Ti territory…