• An MSI RTX 5070 Ti graphics card has been priced over in Europe
• This early sighting sees worth tags pitched nicely above the MSRP
• We should always nonetheless be very cautious about any prerelease pricing, however this stays a worrying trace

Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti is rumored to be virtually upon us – certainly, we all know it’s speculated to be out in February from Group Inexperienced itself – and early pricing hints at the moment are rising.

The unhealthy information is that these nuggets really feel depressingly just like what we’ve seen with the RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs. What’s that, precisely? The specter of inflated pricing, which has been a particular motif with the Blackwell graphics playing cards Nvidia has deployed up to now.

VideoCardz picked up on an MSI RTX 5070 Ti (Gaming Trio OC) showing at an Austrian retailer, Media Markt (sic), priced at €1,169, which is round a 3rd greater than the official MSRP in Germany. (And that really useful worth ought to be roughly equal for Austria, on condition that these European nations have the identical degree of gross sales tax, and sure comparable import prices too).

Okay, in order that’s only one worth, however sadly, it’s mirrored by a French retailer, as noticed by Tomasz Gawroński on X, which has the identical MSI RTX 5070 Ti entry-level board at €1,150, a really comparable degree.

Evaluation: Extra fretting about RTX 5070 prospects

Sure, the talked about worth tags may nicely be placeholders, I absolutely settle for that, and a few care is required right here as ever with this sort of prerelease hypothesis.

Nonetheless, the truth that two European retailers are arising with across the similar lofty price ticket for this similar MSI graphics card has obtained to be a bit of regarding. Particularly given what we’ve seen with the RTX 5080 and 5090, particularly retailers, and graphics card producers themselves (on their very own internet shops), pushing prices nicely above MSRP degree (and even beforehand introduced launch pricing from board makers).

All in all, the state of affairs has been messy, and we’ve obtained to wonder if the inventory and pricing woes seen with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs thus far will proceed to use to the RTX 5070 Ti when it arrives. (By the way, the Austrian retailer pins a launch date of February 20 on the RTX 5070 Ti, which aligns with an entire bunch of different leaks, together with one from MSI itself, funnily sufficient).

What we should additionally keep in mind with the RTX 5070 Ti is that this would be the first Blackwell providing to not have a Founders Version made by Nvidia. That means that third-party retailers will probably be wholly liable for sticking to the MSRP, with no graphics card from Nvidia to carry the really useful pricing line, because it have been. Not that this mattered a lot with the RTX 5090 and 5080, given how shortly Founders Version provide dried up (and certainly how swiftly all inventory offered out).

There’s nonetheless hope, in fact – perhaps these costs will become off the mark. Maybe RTX 5070 Ti inventory will probably be extra plentiful, though working towards that concept is the truth that this GPU makes use of the identical chip (GB203) because the RTX 5080. And provide of the latter GPU has been distinctly strained as avid gamers have struggled to purchase the RTX 5080.

On condition that, maybe the actual Blackwell hope, a minimum of for the nearer-future, lies with the RTX 5070, which is powered by the lower-tier GB205 – would possibly these chips be produced in larger portions for this vanilla mannequin’s launch? We will however maintain our fingers crossed, though the shortage of any rumors in regards to the RTX 5070’s launch date – when hypothesis with regards to the 5070 Ti is rife – brings worries of its personal (and lends a bit extra weight to chatter of a delay to March for this GPU). None of which precisely lends confidence to the concept of the RTX 5070 blazing into city with a load of inventory behind it, or a minimum of a good quantity.

Nonetheless, come March, there’s additionally AMD’s RX 9070 graphics playing cards coming into the fray, and probably that’s one thing Nvidia is keenly conscious of.

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