Released in March, the GeForce RTX 5070 is currently the go-to mid-range Nvidia card if you're after above-average performance on newly released blockbusters. Usually prices for 5070s start at around the AU$900 mark in Australia, but right now the MSI version of the card is going for an all-time low of AU$792.35 on Amazon.
According to StaticIce, which collects prices from many notable Australian computing retailers, the next cheapest 5070 at the moment is going for AU$895, which is more than AU$100 more expensive.
The 5070, according to Jen-Hsun Huang upon announcement, boasts RTX 4090 performance for a comparatively smaller price. That said, our review wasn't particularly glowing when it came to the Founders Edition of the 5070, with Dave James praising its 1440p Multi Frame Gen tech, while noting that AMD's RX 9070—the equivalent model from the red team—delivers much better game performance.
Still, if you're working on an small-form factor build and prefer Nvidia, it's a good card, and AU$792.35 is a very good price for it.
Why is it going so cheap? Well, this discount isn't dramatic, but it is good, and it might be a result of the market responding to the RTX 5070's awkward placement in the current graphics card generation. "At this [launch] price, and with this competition looming large, I just don't know how I can recommend the RTX 5070 as a genuine purchase for any PC gamer without major caveats," Dave wrote in his review. "The GPU at its heart feels like it should be the basis for an RTX 5060 and now the rest of market might just force that upon Nvidia."
But: now that the card is available for well under the price range it sat in at launch, the 5070 is actually a strong contender for an upper-mid-range card.
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