Unless you have spent the last twelve hours in a tent outside a Best Buy, you probably don’t have a new Nvidia card in your hands right now. In a depressing show, the RTX 5070 immediately sold in each online retailer, according to the same model as the RTX 5070 Ti And 5080/5090 launches In the past few weeks. The initial actions are exhausted despite the huge increases on most models.
Less than ten minutes after the launch of 9:00 a.m., Best Buy, Newegg and B&H have all shown each RTX 5070 card as in stock or otherwise unavailable. Between the high demand from PC players (and scalpers who want to take advantage of it) and apparently a very low production for the launches of the card, things seem dark enough for all those who want to get a new card, especially at retail prices.
Nvidia’s manufacturing partners, such as Asus and Gigabyte, also seem to hate to sell these cards to retail prices announced in CES 2025. Several “improved” models of RTX 5070 are Go for almost $ 750Closer to the suggested price of RTX 5070 Ti.
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Of course, this is an academic point because you cannot buy them anyway. The Founders Edition Edition of Nvidia – The Nvidia brand version without fantasy extras – is not even available at launch. (It would occur later this month.) It seems particularly cruel that the RTX 5070 is instantly so difficult to find, because it is easily the least impressive card of the new lot in terms of power and value. NVIDIA’s assertion that the new generation card has the same performance as the RTX 4090 thanks to the multi-frame generation seems particularly fragile after the first opinions.
Manufacturers and retailers are not quick to blame the Trump diet consumer punishment prices For the rise in prices, but that can only explain a large part of the increase. As a columnist for engadget igor bonifacic underlined yesterdayIt looks more like Nvidia’s AIB partners benefit from the hypothesis that the cards will sell at higher prices and put their thumbs on the scale. During the first months, in any case, it seems that these companies assume that they will sell each card they can make (either to PC players or scalpers) and have built higher prices to make hay while the sun is shining.
It may not be a coincidence that AMD has established its embargo to Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT During the same time, in competition directly with the 5070 and 5070 TI of Nvidia, respectively. The high -end card Place the GeForce equivalent with shame of $ 150 less. At the cost of the stickers, anyway. We will have to see what prices look like for the official launch tomorrow morning… and if someone can really find one to buy.