Is it because there's no Founders Edition of the RTX 5070 Ti? Is that why seemingly every manufacturer on the gods' green earth has decided to give the middle finger to PC gamers and stick another $200+ on top of the original Nvidia MSRP for the card? I'll level with you, this is something I simply am not going to be able to get past for this review of the MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus: its price.
With Nvidia promising $749 for the RTX 5070 Ti at CES this year we were all pretty pleased that it was going to represent a price cut over the previous RTX 4070 Ti/Super cards, and impressed that it was set to utilise the same second-tier Blackwell GeForce GPU as the RTX 5080.
