- A number of RTX 5070 models have been listed on MSRP in the US
- This seems to suggest that the pricing for the GPU could come out positively
- However, there are plenty of reasons to doubt that, unfortunately
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics card has been seen complete with pricing at retailers ahead of their impending release (tomorrow, March 5), and what we see is something of a pleasant surprise – on the face of it.
However, there are reasons to be very careful here that I come back to.
In any case, the awards first reports and WCCFTECH reports that a regular hardware leakage on X, @momomo_us, picked up on B&H photo in the US, showing a number of RTX 5070 models with price tags (which are still live at the time of writing).
These are RTX 5070s from third -party card manufacturers who are beaten on the official MSRP, and although some are the entry level that you might expect, there are also over -clocked models here.
The latter is PNY’s RTX 5070 OC variant, which is priced for $ 550 MSRP, along with Gigabyte’s Windforce OC and entry level Windforce is at the same $ 550 price as well as ASUS Prime RTX 5070.
Previously, Best Buy has also listed the ASUS Prime RTX 5070 at the recommended $ 550 price (and that product list remains unchanged when I write this).
So, as mentioned in the beginning, this could be read as an encouraging sign that the cost of RTX 5070 GPUs may fall reasonably in line with Nvidia’s recommended pricing.
However, as I suggested before, I do not read it that way, and let’s dive into why that is the case.
Analysis: to become real for a moment
Okay, there are a few bones to pick with this one (maybe a whole body). First, with the B&H photo prices, it makes no sense that the Windforce models would be the same-entry-level and over-clocked model recently mentioned will not be on the MSRP (the former must be, assigned).
Just look at the same variants in the case of the existing RTX 5080, you see that gigabyte prices and the version of just over 25% more expensive. There is no way this will not be mirrored with the RTX 5070 (at least to some extent, yet, even if it is not such a big jump).
What this shows is that this (at least partial) placeholder prices from B&H, although it is said, it is quite likely that the entry level gigabyte Windforce, and in fact, like the Asus Prime RTX 5070, will be at MSRP. Remember that the latter is priced to MSRP towards Best Buy as well, and this is Entry-Level boards that should Attached to the recommended pricing.
In any case, the broad point here is that we are not being led away with the notion that over -clocked RTX 5070 plates away from the baseline models will be on MSRP -they do not. Hopefully the flavors of the entry-level-they should definitely be-but there is an obvious other problem here that weaves big.
Namely, pricing may be a kind of academic anyway, based on how the Blackwell GPU launches have gone so far -the share level has been very low in general and all RTX 5000 models are sold out on a flash. After the latest rumors, the RTX 5070 share will be very much the same story, or perhaps even worse than the RTX 5090 (which was particularly appalling).
The problem in this case is that pricing tends to be pumped over MSRP (even by retailers, not just scalpers) just because of demand that we have already seen with Blackwell.
And you can get price dynamics coming in, such as MSI, which allegedly wanders its entrance level Blackwell boards well over MSRP (as Videocardz noted). This happened briefly for the RTX 5070 ten, but the card manufacturer now seems to have thought better about it and reduced pricing again in the MSI store. (Not at Newegg, Mind, at the time of writing, where the Ventus 3x OC version of 5070 ten stays at its artificially inflated price of $ 900 -and MSI’s RTX 5080 boards remain well over their MSRP in its own online store for now).
Not that you can buy these GPUs anyway, even if you would pay so much.
In short, the whole situation around Blackwell graphics card is a bit of a mess, and I will be very surprised if things turn out very different with the RTX 5070. And certainly does not expect any reasonable prices on over -clocked 5070 models, it’s really just PIE in the GPU hill.
Meanwhile, AMD RDNA 4 graphics card sweeping in on March 6, apparently with healthier stock levels, has an extra headache for Nvidia potentially.
