- A number of RTX 5070 models have been listed in the PDSF in the United States
- This seems to suggest that the price of the GPU could come out favorably
- There are many reasons to doubt that, unfortunately
NVIDIA RTX 5070 graphics cards were identified with prices for retailers before their imminent release (tomorrow March 5), and what we see is a good surprise – at first glance.
There are reasons to be very suspicious here, to which I will come back.
In any case, first the prices themselves, and WCCFTECH reports that a regular equipment leak on X, @momo_us, has taken up the photo B&H in the United States by listing a certain number of RTX 5070 models with price labels (which are always live at the time of writing).
These are RTX 5070s of third -party card manufacturers who are presented at the official PDSF, and although some are entry -level planks as you can expect, there are also overclocking models here.
The latter are the RTX 5070 OC variant PNY which is at the price of the PDSF of $ 550, as well as the WindForce OC of Gigabyte – and the entry -level forest is at the same price of $ 550, as well as the Asus Prime RTX 5070.
Previously, Best Buy also listed the Asus Prime RTX 5070 at the recommended price at $ 550 also (and this list of products remains unchanged when I write this).
Thus, as mentioned at the start, it could be read as an encouraging sign that the cost of RTX 5070 GPUs could reasonably comply with the recommended prices of Nvidia.
As I indicated earlier, however, I do not read it that way, and plunge why it is.
Analysis: become real for a while
Okay, there are a few bones to choose with it (perhaps an entire carcass). First, with the price of the B&H photo, it makes no sense that the WindForce models are the same – the entry -level model and overclocké – the second will surely not be at the PDSF (the first should be, granted).
Just look at these same variants in the case of the existing RTX 5080 and you will see that the price GigaCtets The OC version at just over 25% more expensive. There is no way that this is not reflected with the RTX 5070 (at least to a certain extent, anyway, even if it is not such a large jump).
What it shows is that these are (at least partially) the prices of the reserved spaces of B&H, although that is said, it is quite likely that the gigabyte forest from entry -level, and in fact the tastes of the Asus Prime RTX 5070, will be at the PDSRP. Do not forget that the latter is also at the price of the PDSF to Best Buy, and these are entry -level tables which should be set at the pricing recommended by the base.
Anyway, the broad point here is not to take us with the idea that RTX 5070 overclockd boards on the reference models will be at the PDSF – they will not. Hopefully the entry -level flavors will be – they should absolutely be – but there is an obvious second problem here that is looming.
Namely, prices could be academic anyway, depending on how the Blackwell GPU launches have taken place so far – the stock levels have been very low in general, and all the RTX 5000 models have sold in a flash. According to the latest rumors, the RTX 5070 stock will be roughly the same story, or perhaps even worse as the RTX 5090 (which was particularly fragile).
The problem in this case is that the price tends to be pumped over the PDSF (even by retailers, not just scalpers) simply due to demand, as we have already seen with Blackwell.
And you can get an upcoming pricing dynamic, such as MSI would have hiked its entry-level Blackwell cards well above the PDSF (as Videocardz has noticed). This has happened briefly in the case of RTX 5070 TI, but the card manufacturer now seems to have thought better and reduces prices to the MSI store. (Not at Newegg, Mind, at the time of the editorial staff, where the Ventus 3x OC version of the 5070 TI remains at its price artificially inflated by $ 900 – and the MSI RTX 5080 advice remains on their PDSF in its own online store, for the moment).
Not that you can buy these GPUs anyway, even if you wanted to pay as much.
In short, the whole situation around Blackwell graphics cards is a bit in disorder, and I will be very surprised if things are very different with the RTX 5070. And don’t expect reasonable prices for the 5070 overclockés models, which is really just a pie in the GPU sky.
Meanwhile, AMD has DNA 4 graphics cards sweeping on March 6, apparently with healthier stock levels, causing additional headache for Nvidia, potentially.
