Nvidia's unmistakable Founders Edition brand identity makes this RTX 5070 look precisely like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition and the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. This housing gives the card a premium look and feel, though as I will discuss later, it also leads to suboptimal thermal performance.

We had chances to buy the RTX 5070 this morning, but only if we paid $100 to $170 more than the $549 starting price.

Nvidia's RTX 5070 won't hit RTX 4090 levels of performance even with multi-frame gen, but it works well for those who have a 1440p setup.

At $549, the RTX 5070 will also come up against AMD’s new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT when they launch on March 6th. If AMD manages to beat Nvidia’s RTX 5070 or come close to the $749 RTX 5070 Ti, that’s going to put a lot of much-needed pressure on Nvidia’s pricing.

Nvidia has apparently delayed its RTX 5070 FE graphics card, with only other manufacturers' versions of the gaming GPU available at launch.

Of the four Blackwell releases, the Nvidia RTX 5070 is the most affordable of the bunch, sitting in at a retail price of $549. Less expensive variants will undoubtedly be released later during the cycle but the next official announcement has yet to be made.

Nvidia’s 50 Series releases are chugging right along, even though things haven’t exactly been smooth. The top end of the series has shown impressive 4K performance, but finding one in stock for close to MSRP requires active effort or plenty of patience.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is here, and while it is not the most exciting upgrade, it is still the latest mid-range option in the 50-series lineup. Performan