Whereas it’s nonetheless onerous to trace down common inventory of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 at MSRP within the US, PC players within the UK seem to have entry to a good stack of them. Not solely that, however a few of the playing cards at the moment are going for beneath Nvidia’s authentic £539 MSRP, with costs now as little as £518.99 for an RTX 5070 graphics card.
Whereas Nvidia has comfortably had the top-end of the GPU market to itself on this era, with the RTX 5090 being unquestionably the most effective graphics card proper now for those who can afford its big price (and if you could find 5090 inventory wherever), the RTX 5070 has confronted a a lot harder aggressive battle. The mid-range GPU was instantly confronted with competitors from the brand new AMD Radeon RX 9070 collection, whereas the tariff commerce struggle between China and the US has additional difficult the market within the US, as has a scarcity of inventory.
In the event you’re fortunate sufficient to stay within the UK, although, go and fill your boots, as there’s a great deal of RTX 5070 inventory that can be purchased proper now. The most affordable card on sale in the meanwhile is the Gainward RTX 5070 Python III, which at the moment prices £518.99 inc VAT at Overclockers, however there are additionally a number of different 5070 playing cards going for £529.99 and £539.99. The story is comparable at UK retailer Scan, the place you may at the moment purchase MSI and Palit RTX 5070 playing cards for £539.99.
Even the official worth of the Founders Version on the Nvidia web site has come down from £539 to £529, as noticed by KitGuru, a UK-based PC tech web site. There are a number of components at play right here, from the current tariff battle to competitors from AMD, however one important issue is that the UK doesn’t appear to have suffered the identical disparity between provide and demand relating to inventory of the RTX 5070, though it’s nonetheless near-impossible to search out an RTX 5090 on the market within the UK.
In the meantime, AMD Radeon RX 9070 playing cards now begin at £578.99, which is now £60 greater than the RTX 5070. That’s nonetheless aggressive for the efficiency on supply, particularly because the AMD GPU comes with 16GB of VRAM, however the distinction is now much less clear-cut – at £518.99, the RTX 5070 has a very good worth proper now for those who stay within the UK.
In the event you’re considering of upgrading, try our information on methods to set up a GPU, the place we take you thru the method of swapping out your graphics card for a brand new mannequin, in addition to our RTX 5070 evaluation to see how this GPU performs.
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