Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper

[Admin]

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 lands at the upper end of what used to be the mainstream price segment, but we strongly doubt the $549 MSRP will be in effect any time soon, outside of a limited number of cards. In fact, the entire consumer GPU market is in a bad state right now as far as pricing and availability go.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper : Read more

 

[Thunder64]

This thing is getting blasted everywhere else but here it is 4 stars? What a joke. Not to mention the 50 series is probably the wrost GPU launch ever.

 

[logainofhades]

Yea it's basically a 4070s at best.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Yea it's basically a 4070s at best.

Which, sadly, has a going price of basically $1000 or so new, or you can take your chances with eBay where prices over the past 30 days are averaging $789.55. Not that I expect the 5070 to be any better in the near term. Minor gains are the new status quo, so 20% faster for nominally the same price as the outgoing generation isn't bad.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

This thing is getting blasted everywhere else but here it is 4 stars? What a joke. Not to mention the 50 series is probably the worst GPU launch ever.

I would say the entire 30-series in late 2020 throughout 2021 was, so far, worse than what we've had from the 50-series. RTX 3080 selling for $2000–$2500? RTX 3090 going for up to $4500? Yeah. And you know what? None of that was the fault of Nvidia or AMD.

The current supply restrictions are much more in Nvidia's control, because it's deciding to prioritize AI over consumer. But I can't fault a company for choosing to do more of the thing that accounted for 88% of its revenue last year.

Is four stars too high? 🤷‍♂️ That's based on the theoretical MSRP, because GOK what the actual prices are going to be throughout 2025! On paper, everything looks decent. In practice, everything is fubar — and I mean that about all GPUs right now. So writing emotionally vapid comments blaming Nvidia for lack of stock just isn't something I'm going to bother doing. Yes, the supply situation sucks right now. Prices suck right now. You can't buy these at $549 right now (unless you win the lottery). But if you could buy one at that price? Sure, it's a 4-star card, maybe 3.5-star. And getting bent out of shape about a half a star difference of opinion isn't worth the effort.

Put another way: Read the review, look at all the pretty charts, decide for yourself how good/bad/whatever the card is. But don't get hung up on one number that tries (and always fails) to encapsulate way too much information.

 

[oofdragon]

LMAO decent price!!!! And he even omitted direct comparison with the 4070 Super!!!!! Hahaha what a joke, this is the most n greed shill website in the whole world

throwback when this same guy said 4070>6950 at same price 😂 this is comedy. Can't wait to see the 9070 "review" tomorrow where he will try and fail to make it look bad compared to this failure

 

[artk2219]

This thing is getting blasted everywhere else but here it is 4 stars? What a joke. Not to mention the 50 series is probably the wrost GPU launch ever.

I get where you're coming from, and if the 9000 series had launched first, i would have some real issues with that score. But the 9000 series hasn't launched yet, the market is a mess with pricing all over the place, and the RTX 4070 Super and 7900 GRE basically no longer exist in retail. Given the space this card has launched into, if it can be had at MSRP, it's appropriate. Do I love it? No. But looking at it outside of a bubble, until there are more competing products, it's not the worst thing. It could definitely use more vram though.

As for the worst GPU launch ever, nah, we tend to forget just how bad the GeForce FX 5000 and GTX 400 launches were. I'm tempted to throw the Radeon HD 2000 series in there, but they at least typically made it through their warranty period before they would outright die. This could not be said for the flagships from those other two series, the HD 2000 series was just hot, loud, and not very competitive. That said, is this the worst launch in 15 years? Undoubtedly.

 

[baboma]

>This thing is getting blasted everywhere else but here it is 4 stars?

No surprise. 5070 is getting special attention because of Huang's "5070 > 4090" CES blurb that had the cognoscenti gnashing their teeth. The throng is itching for payback, and this is their chance.

>What a joke.

Yes, it's a joke that people are crying about overpriced GPUs, when the price of everything else had just jumped 25% overnight.

>Not to mention the 50 series is probably the worst GPU launch ever.

Famous last words.

 

[btmedic04]

Ah, more vaporware with fake frames and fake msrps. Pass

 

[LolaGT]

This is the first review I've read, and I'd have to say that was an unexpectedly poor result.
Leaving out the 4070S was on purpose(probably on urging from someone who provided the hardware for testing, we can guess who), no doubt because that was what it needed to stand up to and be compared with and I knew I was not alone seeing that omitted as glaringly telling.
I'm not sure it really matters, because there will not be any real availability of note probably until the 5070S is close to release.
MSRP? haha, that's the real joke.

 

[DRagor]

Ah, more vaporware with fake frames and fake msrps. Pass

You forgot about fake ROPs

 

[kyzarvs]

I don't normally agree with the more... shrill comments, but there is a point here.

In the space of what, 3 card launches? we've gone from "the rating is assuming RRP, which it will be in a couple of weeks", to "the rating is assuming RRP, but we know it will never be there" - so change the rating accordingly.

If the card is fast enough (seems to be) that 12GB is a problem, you can't paper over that with a future compression tech that won't be in any game that anyone has right now - we don't all throw away our Steam libraries with each new card. That needs to be a tangible demerit.

There's nothing to stop nVidia (or AMD) putting covenants in place with their official retailers giving a min/max price range - it happens all the time. You wouldn't stop ebay etc, but the official market can be easily controlled - it actually happens in other industries and other products all the time. You cannot let nVidia or AMD off the hook on pricing - they have tools to control it and choose not to, they should be called out much more often and much more loudly.

 

[logainofhades]

Which, sadly, has a going price of basically $1000 or so new, or you can take your chances with eBay where prices over the past 30 days are averaging $789.55. Not that I expect the 5070 to be any better in the near term. Minor gains are the new status quo, so 20% faster for nominally the same price as the outgoing generation isn't bad.

Thankfully I am not in the market for a GPU right now. My RX 6800 is still sufficient for my needs. The whole market is a mess, but this card is still meh.

 

[Dr3ams]

RX 9070 lands tomorrow with 'better' specs

This

 

[VizzieTheViz]

So basically it’d be pretty decent if you could buy it for a price at which it will not be sold in the foreseeable future if it will be for sale at all in reasonable numbers. Got it.

Next time Nvidia should just sell the couple of FE cards they make for a hundred bucks and get like ten out of five stars.

 

[ingtar33]

I have a major problem with this review.

generally speaking generation by generation progress on nvidia is for a 5070 to perform like a 4080 or a 5060 to perform like a 4070.

this card performs like a 4070 super. a 5070. it has the same ray tracing performance, same raster performance ends up within 2% on fps, has the same power draw. this is basically a relaunched 4070super.

Which means the 5070 is misnamed. it should be a 5060. meaning the price point is WAY OFF. this should be at the 300-450 price point. it's massively overpriced, and it's yet another card nvidia nvidia is selling us a torn down low end card with a mid naming scheme and a premium price.

I don't see how THG can justify this with a 4 star review. and i haven't even talked about all of the nvidia marketing claiming this card gave 4090 performance. (it doesn't, not even close)

 

[DRagor]

Is four stars too high?

Yes. For one simple reason: Jensen's lie ("4090 performance for 549"). If we let them market their product with lies even once - we'll get that forever. No mater how much really this card will cost, or what its performance really is, the only rating that it can get is zero. Or else djinn is out of the bottle and we're f$%^ed forever.

 

[Gururu]

It's almost too funny how nVidia yet finds another way to squeeze a new card between two former cards.

 

[Gururu]

LMAO decent price!!!! And he even omitted direct comparison with the 4070 Super!!!!! Hahaha what a joke, this is the most n greed shill website in the whole world

throwback when this same guy said 4070>6950 at same price 😂 this is comedy. Can't wait to see the 9070 "review" tomorrow where he will try and fail to make it look bad compared to this failure

I think its confirmed these are 1440 cards on pure raster alone. If the 9070 beats 5070 in 1440 raster and loses in 1440 w/RT, my head is going to explode.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

Whoa is me (as someone who needs to buy a new GPU). I keep waiting for some light on the horizon, and yet between compounding tariffs, and near daily reveals of 50-series snafus and sheer mediocrity, even the used prices keep going up.

My GPU regrets, in order:
1) Not buying a brand new 4080Super for $1000 4 months ago. (currently averaging $1800 used)
2) Not buying a brand new 4090 for $1600 4 months ago (currently averaging $2500 used)
3) Not buying a brand new 7900XTX for $999 last week (currently averaging $1500 new)

I'm now staring down the potential of paying $1600+ for a 5080 once they become available when I could've gotten a superior and faster 4090 for the same price a few months ago.

First-world problems, to be sure, but I can't help but wonder what further compounding GPU mistakes I'm making right this minute by hoping things will change.

 

[logainofhades]

Whoa is me (as someone who needs to buy a new GPU). I keep waiting for some light on the horizon, and yet between compounding tariffs, and near daily reveals of 50-series snafus and sheer mediocrity, even the used prices keep going up.

My GPU regrets, in order:
1) Not buying a brand new 4080Super for $1000 4 months ago. (currently averaging $1800 used)
2) Not buying a brand new 4090 for $1600 4 months ago (currently averaging $2500 used)
3) Not buying a brand new 7900XTX for $999 last week (currently averaging $1500 new)

I'm now staring down the potential of paying $1600+ for a 5080 once they become available when I could've gotten a superior and faster 4090 for the same price a few months ago.

First-world problems, to be sure, but I can't help but wonder what further compounding GPU mistakes I'm making right this minute by hoping things will change.

Might want to try and snag a 9070xt, Thursday then.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

Might want to try and snag a 9070xt, Thursday then.

Believe me, I will be glued to the reveal.

Depending on the results, I may start looking more seriously at a 7900XTX as long as I can find a water block for it. That's been one of my hang ups - making sure I get something that can be water cooled.

 

[helper800]

I would say the entire 30-series in late 2020 throughout 2021 was, so far, worse than what we've had from the 50-series. RTX 3080 selling for $2000–$2500? RTX 3090 going for up to $4500? Yeah. And you know what? None of that was the fault of Nvidia or AMD.

The current supply restrictions are much more in Nvidia's control, because it's deciding to prioritize AI over consumer. But I can't fault a company for choosing to do more of the thing that accounted for 88% of its revenue last year.

Is four stars too high? 🤷‍♂️ That's based on the theoretical MSRP, because GOK what the actual prices are going to be throughout 2025! On paper, everything looks decent. In practice, everything is fubar — and I mean that about all GPUs right now. So writing emotionally vapid comments blaming Nvidia for lack of stock just isn't something I'm going to bother doing. Yes, the supply situation sucks right now. Prices suck right now. You can't buy these at $549 right now (unless you win the lottery). But if you could buy one at that price? Sure, it's a 4-star card, maybe 3.5-star. And getting bent out of shape about a half a star difference of opinion isn't worth the effort.

Put another way: Read the review, look at all the pretty charts, decide for yourself how good/bad/whatever the card is. But don't get hung up on one number that tries (and always fails) to encapsulate way too much information.

I feel there would be less of these types of comments if the pros and cons list and the rating were in the conclusion section at the very end. At least people would have to go through the effort to click through the article a bit more... Are you allowed to change that editorial habit of Tom's?

 

[helper800]

Believe me, I will be glued to the reveal.

Depending on the results, I may start looking more seriously at a 7900XTX as long as I can find a water block for it. That's been one of my hang ups - making sure I get something that can be water cooled.

Can you run it on air until a block appears on the markets for whatever GPU you get, or are you building in an SFF that cannot fit any of the air cooled cards?

 

[LaminarFlow]

In June 2023, two months after launch, I paid $550 through NewEgg promotion and grabbed a 4070 that came with Diablo 4 (lol) for free.

Two years later, something that's barely faster and consumes 20% more energy, runs quite a bit hotter, has the same MRSP that you would be lucky to find. Maybe in two months they will be more available so I'd be making apple-to-apple comparison.

Sure glad I went for the 4070 instead of waiting for something better. Just sad state on gaming GPUs.