There’s a brand new rumor concerning the world of graphics playing cards, hinting that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti sale date might be February 20. This data comes from a European retailer, Proshop, which has put up the dates for a number of 5070 Ti playing cards from manufacturers reminiscent of Asus and MSI.
Nvidia has not indicated particularly when it plans to launch the RTX 5070 Ti. The extra highly effective variation of the 2 mid-tier Nvidia GPUs was anticipated to launch across the identical time because the RTX 5070, however Proshop hasn’t listed dates on any 5070 playing cards on its web site.
What has been given the February 20 date are numerous Asus’ playing cards, together with its TUF Gaming vary. MSI and Gigabyte have additionally had the dates utilized to them throughout their variations too.
Retailers will usually put a date as a placeholder relying on how their system works. Nevertheless, Proshop doesn’t seem to have something like that on another unreleased GPUs.
Even smaller manufacturers like Gainward, Inno3D, and Palit have the dates hooked up. The itemizing additionally particulars the time of launch at 3pm, which strains up with the time new {hardware} like this usually finally ends up on sale in European areas.
The upcoming GPU is about to be priced at $749, $50 cheaper than its earlier technology’s equal. Nevertheless, with inventory points persisting throughout the board within the GPU and CPU world proper now, it might find yourself with a a lot increased value than anticipated. The Intel Battlemage B580 has seen its funds $249 value soar by $100 or extra on main US storefronts like Newegg.
Whereas the RTX 5070 Ti and 5080 are gearing up for launch, in our RTX 5090 evaluation we discovered it doesn’t fairly reside as much as its potential as a consequence of its exuberant $2,000 price ticket and lackluster efficiency on non-ray traced video games. We’ll simply have to attend and see if the half-step 5070 Ti is value its $200 value enhance over the weaker 5070.
