• Various 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 stories {that a} common {hardware} leaker on X, @momomo_us, picked up on B&H Picture over within the US itemizing numerous RTX 5070 fashions with value 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 identical $550 value, in addition to the Asus Prime RTX 5070.

Beforehand, Finest Purchase has additionally listed the Asus Prime RTX 5070 on the $550 beneficial value, too (and that product itemizing stays unchanged as I write this).

So, as talked about on the outset, this could possibly be learn as an encouraging signal that the price of RTX 5070 GPUs would possibly fall moderately consistent with Nvidia’s beneficial pricing.

As I indicated earlier than, although, I’m not studying it that manner, and let’s dive into why that’s the case.

Evaluation: Getting actual for a second

Okay, there are just a few bones to select with this one (maybe a complete carcass). Firstly, with the B&H Picture pricing, it doesn’t make any sense that the WindForce fashions could be the identical – the entry-level and overclocked mannequin – the latter absolutely received’t be at MSRP (the previous needs to be, granted).

Simply have a look at these identical 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 manner this received’t be mirrored with the RTX 5070 (a minimum of to some extent, anyway, even when it’s not as huge a bounce).

What this exhibits is that these are (a minimum of partially) placeholder costs from B&H, although that mentioned, 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. Keep in mind, the latter is priced on the MSRP over at Finest Purchase as properly, and these are entry-level boards that ought to be fastened on the base beneficial pricing.

Anyway, the broad level right here is let’s not get carried away with the notion that by some means 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 giant.

Particularly that pricing may be form of educational anyway, based mostly on how the Blackwell GPU launches have gone to this point – inventory ranges have been very low typically, 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 resulting from demand, as we’ve seen already with Blackwell.

And you will get pricing dynamics coming in resembling MSI reportedly mountain climbing its entry-level Blackwell boards properly 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 value of $900 – and MSI’s RTX 5080 boards stay properly over their MSRP at its personal on-line retailer, too, for now).

Not you can purchase these GPUs anyway, even in the event you wished to pay that a lot.

Briefly, the entire state of affairs round Blackwell graphics playing cards is a little bit of a multitude, and I’m going to be very stunned if issues end up a lot totally different with the RTX 5070. And positively 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.

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