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$559 Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU deal is the cheapest model available — 1440p high-performance gaming at just $10 above MSRP
I'm not sure how long this deal will be around, as it's currently the cheapest RTX 5070 GPU available. You can grab yourself the latest MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC graphics card from Lenovo for $559.99. If you've been on the hunt for a new GPU and have been keeping an eye on prices, you already know that this current deal is $40 cheaper than the next lowest-priced RTX 5070 card, and $80 cheaper than its usual list price. It's $10 more than the original MSRP launch price, but in the current climate, that's pretty good, as this card hasn't dipped under that threshold since Black Friday last year.
The RTX 5070 is a great card for 1440p gaming, and can even dip its toes into 4K gaming, but you might need a little help from DLSS to balance out the framerates at the highest resolutions. The card comes with 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM, which is adequate for most game titles, but can be easily absorbed at higher resolutions on graphics-heavy games. So some graphical settings tweaking might need to take place to optimise performance in some titles.
The RTX 5070 Shadow 3X OC sports 6,144 CUDA cores and packs 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM. This card comes factory overclocked with a triple-fan cooling solution. Connect to your monitor via any of the three DisplayPorts or the HDMI interface.
In our benchmark testing of the RTX 5070, we found the GPU to have slight generational improvements over the previous-gen RTX 4070, sitting just below the middle of the stack behind its more powerful brethren, the 5070 Ti. The latest 50-series cards are also able to make use of Nvidia's DLSS and MFG features to enhance performance through a software boost.
The RTX 5070 is based on a cut-down GB205 GPU with 48 enabled Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) for a total of 6,144 CUDA cores. The GPU packs 12GB of GDDR7 memory and a TBP (Total Board Power) of 250W. The Shadow 3X OC comes factory overclocked with a triple-fan cooling solution. For video connectivity, there are three DisplayPorts and one HDMI interface.
This isn't the cheapest ever price for an RTX 5070 GPU, but at $559, this MSI Shadow 3X OC RTX 5070 is currently the cheapest one going. The only real concern with this GPU is the amount of VRAM. 12GB is more than enough for most tasks and games, but there are some titles that will exceed 12GB, and this limits future-proofing. But with the current AI squeeze on PC components, the future may well have to look to game optimization, rather than throwing precious and expensive memory at GPUs.
Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
Just checked PCPartPicker and both the cheapest vanilla 5070 and cheapest vanilla 9070 are $609.99 US. Are you perhaps thinking of the 5070Ti which has an msrp of $749? The cheapest ones I could find are $979.99 while the cheapest 9070 XT is $649.99. This article is about the vanilla 5070, not the 5070 ti.
