Final Thoughts
So where does the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti stand? The way it slots in a little behind the GeForce RTX 5080 on most charts shouldn’t surprise anyone, as NVIDIA is always segmenting their lineup like this. The theoretical MSRPs are the same as last year, relative to the RTX 4070 Ti Super/RTX 4080 Super. But consumers – and YouTube hardware reviewers, apparently – are sick of inflated retail pricing and poor availability, and once again the focus of this GPU launch is ancillary rather than primary. I wish we could judge products based on their relative performance, but the endless price/availability problem with NVIDIA cards, which we have been saddled with since the last mining craze, continues.
AMD is in an enviable position with their upcoming Radeon RX 9070 Series launch, as some real pressure could be applied to the market – or at least to the GPU vendor-agnostic side of it, which is admittedly a much smaller segment of the overall GPU buying public…unless you only look at German retail figures and ignore every JPR market share report (and think Steam survey results are rigged).