It’s fair to say that I gave the RTX 5070 a bit of a slapping when I first reviewed it. That is mostly because of the bruising it faced at the hands of the AMD RX 9000-series cards that were released around it. They traded hard on price, undercutting and outperforming the mid-range RTX Blackwell card.
But I know there are still folk out there who would absolutely rather put their money down on an Nvidia GPU than take what they see as a risk on AMD Radeon silicon. And in the mid-range, ~$500 market (yes, I am aware of just how much it sucks that we’re referring to $500 as ‘mid-range’), the RTX 5070 is your best bet for a GeForce graphics card, especially now that Walmart is selling a PNY RTX 5070 for $560.
That’s the cheapest we’ve seen this GPU selling for since the turn of the year. Remember those pre-2026 times when graphics cards actually dropped below MSRP? I know, it all seems like a long time ago now, doesn’t it? At $560, you’re only $10 above the original MSRP for this card and, interestingly, that also makes it the same price as the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB I’ve found today, too.
It’s actually rather crowded in this $500-$600 segment, with no fewer than four cards vying for your cash. You have the RX 9070 GRE at the bottom and the RX 9070 at the top, with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 5070 sitting in between them. On the whole, the RTX 5070 outperforms the cheaper RX 9070 GRE, but comes in behind the straight RX 9070.
And I don’t know what business the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB has being priced in the same bracket apart from its VRAM credentials.
1080p gaming performance
| Product | Value |
|---|---|
| RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB | 90 Avg FPS, 78 1% Low FPS |
| RX 9070 | 16 GB | 103 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS |
| RTX 5070 | 12 GB | 95 Avg FPS, 82 1% Low FPS |
| RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB | 75 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS |
| RX 9060 XT | 16 GB | 73 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS |
So, yeah, the RTX 5070 is actually a good deal right now, especially if you either don’t want to spend the extra on the RX 9070 or you have an unreasoned antipathy towards Radeon GPUs.
But if you do want more performance and are willing to spend the monies, there’s another Nvidia GPU that’s had a big price cut this week… although not enough to get it anywhere near its original MSRP. The RTX 5070 Ti again hasn’t been cheaper than this all year, with this MSI version going for $900 at Newegg right now.
Honestly, that’s still a ridiculous amount of money for a third-tier Nvidia GPU, and the Radeon RX 9070 XT would have my vote given it can effectively perform the same but for $700 at Amazon today. But the RTX 5070 Ti is still one of my favorite cards from the RTX Blackwell era, thanks to its performance, overclocking headroom, and the effectiveness of multi Frame Generation when it’s got a good GPU backing it up.
So, if you were interested in getting yourself an RTX 5070 Ti, but baulked at spending over a grand for one, this is probably going to be your best chance for a while
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