Of the four Blackwell releases, the Nvidia RTX 5070 is the most affordable of the bunch, sitting in at a retail price of $549. Less expensive variants will undoubtedly be released later during the cycle but the next official announcement has yet to be made.

Nvidia's midrange GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card produces only modest performance gains over its predecessor while consuming more power, just as AMD steps it up with a potent Radeon alternative.

Unless you’ve spent the last twelve hours or so in a tent outside a Best Buy, you probably don’t have a new Nvidia card in your hands right now. In a depressingly familiar sight, the RTX 5070 has immediately sold out at every online retailer,