Here’s some good news for PC gamers in the UK – you can now pick up an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 for £499 again. As a part of its Power Up Days campaign, MSI is offering promotional pricing on its RTX 5070 Ventus 2X OC card, which was going for £619.99 on Amazon just last month, and usually goes for around £550. That might not be this card’s lowest ever price (it dropped to £479 last year), but it’s a solid deal in the current climate.
MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ventus 2X OC
£550.99 £499.98
“All five GPCs (Graphics Processing Clusters) are up and active, with 48 streaming processors and ray tracing cores doing most of the heavy lifting.” – Read our review.
If you’ve been despairing at the current prices of GPUs as rampant RAM inflation wreaks havoc everywhere, then here’s a chance to pick up a decent GPU for a fair price. This sub-£500 deal price puts the RTX 5070 right up against AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 GRE, and, as we found in our 9070 GRE vs 5070 test, the Nvidia GPU has the upper hand when it comes to performance against this GPU.
Truthfully, we’ve previously been a bit hard on the RTX 5070, as it only has 12GB of VRAM, while AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 has a full 16GB, and the 5070 also isn’t that much faster than its predecessor, the RTX 4070. However, if you’re still rocking an Ampere GPU, or an even older one, £499.98 is a fair price for this GPU at a time when graphics card costs are all over the place.
Importantly, unlike an AMD GPU, you’ll get full access to Nvidia’s ubiquitous DLSS 4.5 tech suite, which is supported by many more games than AMD’s rival FSR 4. The RTX 5070 also supports Nvidia’s multi frame gen (MFG) tech, which uses AI to insert several frames between the ones genuinely rendered by your shader cores. It’s not a magic fix for a slow frame rate, but if your game is already running at 60fps, enabling MFG gives you super-smooth motion that looks and feels great on a monitor with a high refresh rate.
You also get a small overclock on this MSI card, which boosts to 2,542MHz out of the box, and can hit 2,557MHz if you enable its Extreme Performance mode in MSI Center. Comparatively, the reference RTX 5070 boost clock is 2,512MHz.
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