- Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition -The card is not available today
- Nvidia has confirmed that it is coming at one point in March 2025
- Accessibility is expected to be incredibly limited, as with other Blackwell cards
It’s the launch day of the RTX 5070 with the warmly expected medium -sized graphics card now (hopefully) available in the hands of players across the US, UK and beyond. However, it’s just AIBs for sale for now, as Nvidia has stated that although a Founder’s Edition model is coming, there is a bit of a way to go yet.
While RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition models sent together with partner variants (such as gigabytes, zotac, msi, asrock, asus), the same cannot be said for the Midrange Blackwell offering; NVIDIA has confirmed that the RTX 5070 Founders Edition model comes “Later in March” with an exact date that still needs to be determined (via Andreas Schilling on X).
According to this source, NVIDIA Schilling told about the lack of the founding edition accessibility only two and a half hours before the Embargo review raised. This leaves the availability of the NVIDIA-made card. While both founder editions of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 were technically accessible, they were even more volatile than their AIB colleagues (especially in the US and UK).
Traditionally, the founder editions of NVIDIA GPUs are most often found in the United States through hybrid dealers (online and brick and mortar) such as microcenter and best buy. While in the UK, it is typically only the NVIDIA site (and in incredibly limited supply). We’ve seen the rest of the Blackwell set-up disappear from the shelves almost instant, and the same looks like this; Despite (apparently) reduced demand against the other three GPUs.
Lack of confidence in a troubled product
In any case, the RTX 5070 has failed to trailblaze, such as its predecessors (RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070) did in 2024 and 2023 respectively. We gave the latest Blackwell GPU a less than the stars’ 3-star write-up in our review, quoting almost identical generation benefit compared to RTX 4070 Super GDDR7 video memory, which was made (effectively) useless by the reduction in calculation units and transistors together.
The fact that Nvidia has decided to postpone its founder edition of the cheapest card in the Blackwell lineup could be something narrative. It is possible that it is preparing for a wider accessibility than was seen from the other three GPUs. However, this can be a strategic feature considering tomorrow’s launch of AMDS RX 9070 and 9070 XT, none of which has a reference (AMD-MADE) version. Could Nvidia hold back to grab her competition with the cheapest variants available? It’s an option.
With everyone said, the RTX 5070 could be a valuable investment if you are upgrading from an older Ampere (RTX 30 Series) or Turing (RTX 20 Series) 70-class card for a massive two/three generational increase. Some partner cards may be hovering around the promised $ 549 brand, while others will inevitably be priced up to $ 600 depending on cooler size, over -clock potential, RGB and more.
