Thursday, April 13th 2023
No Shortage of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Cards at MSRP in the USA
It appears as if there has been no rush when it comes to people buying NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 cards, at least not directly from NVIDIA's website, as the company lists no less than 19 different models in stock. It should be noted that NVIDIA links to third party websites, but most of the cards are available through at least one of the third parties. Out of those 19 cards, nine are sold at the MSRP of US$599.99, but the remaining 10 cards are sold above the MSRP, by varying amounts. What seems odd is that some companies have both dual and triple fan cards retailing for the MSRP, but with some dual fan OC cards going for more than MSRP from the same company.
The cards priced higher than the MSRP range from US$609.99 to US$699.99, making the more pricey cards seemingly bad value for money, as the highest clock speed listed is only a mere 115 MHz higher than NVIDIA's own RTX 4070 FE card. As seen in TPU's testing, none of the cards seem to have much of an overclocking headroom anyhow, so spending a $100 extra here doesn't seem to be worth it for the small gains in performance and could be easily gained by manually overclocking a cheaper card.
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The cards priced higher than the MSRP range from US$609.99 to US$699.99, making the more pricey cards seemingly bad value for money, as the highest clock speed listed is only a mere 115 MHz higher than NVIDIA's own RTX 4070 FE card. As seen in TPU's testing, none of the cards seem to have much of an overclocking headroom anyhow, so spending a $100 extra here doesn't seem to be worth it for the small gains in performance and could be easily gained by manually overclocking a cheaper card.
72 Comments on No Shortage of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Cards at MSRP in the USA
In DE for example they cost 659E.
store.nvidia.com/de-de/geforce/store/gpu/?page=1&limit=9&locale=de-de&gpu=RTX%204070&category=GPU&category_filter=GPU~0,LAPTOP~0,STUDIO-LAPTOP~0,NVLINKS~0
Considering Taiwan only has 5% VAT, that's a rip-off.
That said, that's also some pretty terrible pricing, but still only US$13 more if you remove the VAT.
1) look at the failure of the playability of The Last of Us on PC if you're not sporting a 12GB VRAM GPU. Maybe people are thinking, if 8GB VRAM is a limitation right now with a game that just came out and you need 12GB to play it, what the hell good is a GPU that's launching with only 12GB? Will a game that comes out in the next 6-18 months not be playable because of it?
2) This card performs just like the 3080 10GB. A card that's 2.5 years old now. If someone is already using this card or even the 12GB version or the Ti variant, there is no reason to move on. Also, those running a 3070 or 3070Ti are only maybe 20-25% behind a 3080 and moving up to a 4070 with 12GB might be a turn off (see reason 1).
Right now it's just not a good card for most people on the Ampere cards. If I was on a 2080 or 2080Ti, the 4070 isn't an enticing card because of the above reasons.
It's kind of a flop of a card, in my opinion.
The price:performance of this gen is completely absurd. These companies, Nvidia in particular, enjoyed several years of people willing to pay 2x+ MSRP because the cards were used for making money - a justifiable purchase, from an accounting perspective. But now, over $1700 after tax for a 4090? $1300 for a 4080? Lol. Lmao, even.
I remember back when a new generation of cards meant lower prices for better performance, not higher prices for slightly less.
I think I'm being priced out of the market,....
I can pay the ~$600 but good God, some years ago I bought a GTX 1060 for something like ~$250 new. I mean,.....WTF!!!
Can't wait to see the strix price haha (or that might just be that particular retailler having unreal expectation)
Strix will likely be $750 ish so pretty stupid assuming they even make one.
www.techpowerup.com/307181/asus-announces-its-geforce-rtx-4070-series-rog-strix-tuf-gaming-and-dual
Either way congrats on the new gpu. I'm sure your daughter is going to love the 3070.
Hopefully the fanboys can contain themselves and sit this one out.
Me thinking it's a steaming turd doesn't make you thinking it's a good product invalid or vice-versa.
Enjoy your card :toast: cheers to new tech.
It would be a hard one for me as well I think I would lean 7900XT but cards have to last me 4 years so that extra 8GB of vram likely would be the main factor.
4070ti 1440p perfomance is awesome though I'm sure you'll enjoy it for a long time DLSS being superior at 1440p is just the cherry on top.
DLSS3 is really neat I can't wait for more people to get hands on with it and while I don't think it should be a factor in a gpu buying decision I really like it.