For the past week or so I've been playing around with Nvidia's RTX 5070 graphics card, the next outing in the new RTX Blackwell series of GPUs. It's the cheapest of all the RTX 50-series cards so far with a $549 MSRP and the promise of RTX 4090 performance. Though recent experience has taught us that, outside of the resolutely MSRP Founders Edition I have here, such pricing is an ephemeral thing when it comes to such scarcity in the market.
We also now have more genuine GPU competition on the horizon in this price bracket, too, with AMD yesterday announcing its own $549 and $599 graphics cards. So, the RTX 5070 has got its work cut out trying to make a place for itself in this increasingly busy end of the GPU business.
