Best Buy has been the quintet of the RTX 5070 MSRP graphics cards for some time. Will these go on sale later? We’ll see. But probably more appropriate offers are cards valued above USD 549 MSRP NVIDIA for RTX 5070. And now the number has been replaced at the best purchase at levels near the official MSRP RTX 5070 TI.
The cheapest of the group is Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Eagle OC SFF, yours for $ 599. At least theoretically. At the other end of the scale is the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition, in the amount of 739 USD.
This is only USD 10 from the much stronger IAS 5070 TI. So exactly what do you get for the $ 190 price raise? It is very hard to say. ASUS currently lists the card top -up clock as “TBD”, while Best Buy quotes it at 2.3 GHz, which must be wrong, because it is below reference clocks and this is the card “excessively disabled”.
The reality is that the factory released cards are rarely sufficiently raised that you would ever feel the difference in the game. Mostly it is probably a very pricey RTX 5070.
To say, Asus is not the only one in this game. Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Aorus Master 12G GDDR7 is also exchanged for 739 USD for Best Buy. In this case, we have at least the value of the 2,715 GHz top -up clock compared to 2.512 GHz RTX 5070 reference.
As the factory exaggerated cards are a decent growth. But there is still only 8% more clock speed, which in turn probably will not translate into fully 8% more frames in the game, practically never. Either way, it is a single -digit percentage raise and you won’t feel it subjectively.
Between these upper and lower RTX 5070s you will find another six IMRP+ for 5070 GPU with Gigabyte, Asus and PNY. Exactly how speedy they sell out, if at all, most or all of them go on sale, well, we will have to wait and see.
NVIDIA has made positive sounds about the delivery of RTX 5070. So there is sliding that it can, can only, can only availability RTX 5070 at the MSRP price. It would be better because the RTX 5070 is barely attractive for $ 549. For something higher, it is a huge exclusion.
When I write these words, we are slightly less than two hours from the RTX 5070 go on sale and you can track all the changes on our RTX 5070 Day live. Keep your scanners!
