DegustatoR
Legend
Real-world GPU prices cost up to twice the MSRP. These are the best dollar-to-fps values.
The current GPU landscape is a veritable wasteland, filled with scalpers and scam sellers.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell Availability
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DegustatoR
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The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too.
I think the 5070 is the least popular of the sku's. Even the 5070ti isn't that great
DegustatoR
Legend
Or is it just the best supplied one? It is using relatively small chip and 3/4 of memory chips compared to other options.
Among YouTubers maybe. It will outsell the 5070 Ti and 5080 in the long run based purely on price and availability.
Sure but that can be said for almost anything. I am sure the 5060 series will outsell the 5070 also.
Get that PIC EXPRESS slot dude! 
Amazon also has a slew of 5070 TI's in stock, I use a browser plugin called Keepa which shows price history for most things on Amazon, and every single 5070Ti card I checked on shows a price decrease over the past 14 days, usually around $100 if not more. The only one which defies the trend is the ASUS Prime OC model which has somehow lept by $150 in the past two days -- before that point, it was also on the downward trend from around $1450 to $1200 right before the Monday price spike.
They're still too expensive, of course, but the trendlines are at least somewhat in the right direction. Just wait for the replenishments to come in and be subjected to the stupid tariffs...
Amazon also has a slew of 5070 TI's in stock, I use a browser plugin called Keepa which shows price history for most things on Amazon, and every single 5070Ti card I checked on shows a price decrease over the past 14 days, usually around $100 if not more. The only one which defies the trend is the ASUS Prime OC model which has somehow lept by $150 in the past two days -- before that point, it was also on the downward trend from around $1450 to $1200 right before the Monday price spike.
They're still too expensive, of course, but the trendlines are at least somewhat in the right direction. Just wait for the replenishments to come in and be subjected to the stupid tariffs...
GhostofWar
Regular
I had a Zotac 980 and if I ever get another piece of zotac hardware no one is going to know it. I suffered months of my mates sending me videos of the Zoltan scene from Dude Where's My Car. I should say seeing it was a budget brand (never guess it by that price though) it worked flawlessly.
Well duh, of course you need express lane to get all those pics on your screen fast enough!Get that PIC EXPRESS slot dude!
arandomguy
Veteran
There was always an underlying fear of market disruption from potential tariffs which contributed to the initial high demand. I know there was some puzzlement about what Blackwell demand was so high relative to the Ampere despite the relatively low progress, but the fear was that prices would get worse.
The GPU market's basically been extremely volatile since Covid in 2020. That's in large part contributing to overall angst and pessimism of the market over the last few years.
We're actually seeing a potentially interesting parallel back to Covid as well. There was an initial spike in GPU pricing once the lock downs and work at home transition hit. Supply to demand was supposed to stabilize in the turn over to 2021 but then mining demand instead made those who thought they could just wait it out regret it and instead those who paid the 2020 premiums actually came out ahead.
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Here in Canada there's definitely lots of stock of the 'premium' above-MSRP 5070 Ti and 5080s now, I can walk into a local store and have my pick of a half dozen different models sitting on the shelf. Yesterday there was even a handful of at-MSRP 5070 Ti models ($1089cdn) but they sold out pretty quickly.
5090s are still unobtanium though, unless you want to pay ~$4700-4800cdn for an Asus ROG Astral bundled with a power supply.
5090s are still unobtanium though, unless you want to pay ~$4700-4800cdn for an Asus ROG Astral bundled with a power supply.
DegustatoR
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Goes Below MSRP In Japan For The First Time: Palit RTX 5070 Infinity 3 Listed At $733
NVIDIA's RTX 5070 has hit the lowest price since launch in Japan. In one instance, a retailer is selling the GPU at lower price than MSRP.
wccftech.com
Also for anyone in Canada that needs one, Memory Express just restocked their $1089CAD MSRP card (Gigabyte Windforce SFF non-OC)
Lots of stock in physical stores in Calgary, and also for order online:
Not the best cooling, as it's one of the base models that conforms to Nvidia's SFF standard, so only 2.x slots on the cooler, but at least it's at the Canadian MSRP and readily available now. Should perform similarly cooler wise as the Ventus OC card TechPowerUp tested if I were to guess, as they're both similarly constrained by the SFF dimensions.
Lots of stock in physical stores in Calgary, and also for order online:
Not the best cooling, as it's one of the base models that conforms to Nvidia's SFF standard, so only 2.x slots on the cooler, but at least it's at the Canadian MSRP and readily available now. Should perform similarly cooler wise as the Ventus OC card TechPowerUp tested if I were to guess, as they're both similarly constrained by the SFF dimensions.
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