If you've been waiting for one of the more affordable Blackwell cards to come back in stock at a reputable retailer, here's a shocker: there's a graphics card at less than retail price. Newegg via its eBay Store currently has the MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Graphics Card for $539 with free shipping. That's $10 less than the launch price of $549 and definitely the best price you'll be able to find for this particular GPU. The RTX 5070 is excellent in gaming at up to 1440p with high framerates and supports the latest DLSS 4 technology.
MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Graphics Card for $539
Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 performs comparably with the RTX 4070 Super. We wish there was a bigger generation improvement in raw performance, but the RTX 4070 Super was already an excellent card for 1080p and 1440p gaming. In any case, the RTX 4070 Super GPU has since been discontinued and is only readily available in the used market. The RTX 5070 also supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, and the performance gap widens in games that support this new technology , like Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Doom: The Dark Ages.
The Ventus model boasts a triple-fan cooler design. If you're not constrained by space, a triple-fan cooler is preferred over dual-fan because it does a better job of keeping temps down. It's generally quieter too because the fans don't have to run at a higher speed. A triple-fan cooler generally costs more, which makes this Ventus 3X model a solid deal.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Review by Jacqueline Thomas
"The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is complicated. It does what it says on the tin: play games at 1440p at a high frame rate. But the problem is that it doesn’t necessarily do that better than the RTX 4070 Super, or any other graphics card in this price range. It does add Multi Frame Generation, which is nice to have for anyone with a high-refresh monitor, but that alone isn’t worth the upgrade."
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