News Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition won't be available on launch day, coming 'later in March

[Admin]

Nvidia has unofficially confirmed that the Founders Edition variant of the RTX 5070 will only be available later this month.

Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition won't be available on launch day, coming 'later in March : Read more

 

[Jabberwocky79]

I almost wonder if Nvidia is doing exactly what AMD did - waiting to see what the competition does and adjust accordingly. Right now, on paper, the 5070 seems like a terrible value compared to the 9070. But that remains to be seen.

 

[Neilbob]

... oh no. that's a shocker. say it ain't so.

 

[jlake3]

I almost wonder if Nvidia is doing exactly what AMD did - waiting to see what the competition does and adjust accordingly. Right now, on paper, the 5070 seems like a terrible value compared to the 9070. But that remains to be seen.

But how exactly would they adjust? Reviews for the 5070 FE are out, reviews for the 9070/XT will be out, partner cards will have already gone on sale at MSRP or higher, and murmuring is that the inventory situation is looking bad for a 70-class card and is gonna leave a lot of people frustrated.

If AMD has a wildly successful launch and Nvidia comes out and declares the 5070 FE will actually be $450 (or something) when it launches later in March and they're totally gonna get the inventory fixed soon(tm), I think they may still move a lot of cards (whenever they do actually arrive in volume) by virtue of being Nvidia, but the reputational damage among early adopters, retailers, board partners, and tech media will already be done.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

But how exactly would they adjust? Reviews for the 5070 FE are out, reviews for the 9070/XT will be out, partner cards will have already gone on sale at MSRP or higher, and murmuring is that the inventory situation is looking bad for a 70-class card and is gonna leave a lot of people frustrated.

If AMD has a wildly successful launch and Nvidia comes out and declares the 5070 FE will actually be $450 (or something) when it launches later in March and they're totally gonna get the inventory fixed soon(tm), I think they may still move a lot of cards (whenever they do actually arrive in volume) by virtue of being Nvidia, but the reputational damage among early adopters, retailers, board partners, and tech media will already be done.

Well, exactly. I could see them holding back the 5070 to wait for the 90-series hype to die down and for them to all be sold out, then release the 5070 for all the people who are too hungry for a new GPU to wait for a good deal.

 

[ekio]

If it's not available on launch day, it's not launch day then.... "-__-

 

[Mr Majestyk]

Oh no, how will I cope?

 

[drivinfast247]

Trying to avoid ROPgate I'm guessing.

 

[Notton]

Not sure what nvidia was planning here.
Launch 5070 for $550 just before RX 9070 drops so that the mindless masses of gamers would snap it up?
But they have no stock so they're gonna see the RX 9070 reviews anyways.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

10% guy needs to watch 90% guy. 90% guy doesn't need to watch 10% guy.

That's true. However if the 90% guy wants to stay the 90% guy, then he still has to strategize. I think Nvidia knows they botched this launch so far. How much they care remains to be seen. But no empire, political or economic, lasts without deliberate action. Nvidia would do better to remember that.

 

[LolaGT]

It isn't even April 1st.

When is a debut not? Answer, when they don't have any stock to sell, I'm guessing.

 

[TheOtherOne]

If the product isn't available on launch day, how are they calling it the "launch day"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯