MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus review

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Is it because there's no Founders Edition of the RTX 5070 Ti? Is that why seemingly every manufacturer on the gods' green earth has decided to give the middle finger to PC gamers and stick another $200+ on top of the original Nvidia MSRP for the card? I'll level with you, this is something I simply am not going to be able to get past for this review of the MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus: its price.

With Nvidia promising $749 for the RTX 5070 Ti at CES this year we were all pretty pleased that it was going to represent a price cut over the previous RTX 4070 Ti/Super cards, and impressed that it was set to utilise the same second-tier Blackwell GeForce GPU as the RTX 5080.

Personally, I was even more excited about the card after I saw just how much overclocking headroom there was in that GPU. But, though that has been born out in my initial RTX 5070 Ti review—with 3.2 GHz+ being easily achievable, delivering almost RTX 5080 level frame rates—the warning flags had already started to be raised up the pole well before release.

I had hoped that early listings for the cards had either been placeholder prices or simple errors, and it initially seemed that way from my conversations about the card with Nvidia reps. Though they couldn't comment on specific examples I was told most listings were just placeholders and would be updated just prior to launch.

GPU: GB203
CUDA cores: 8960
Boost clock: 2572 MHz
Memory: 16 GB GDDR7
Memory speed: 28 Gbps
Memory bus: 256-bit
TGP: 300 W
Price: $970 | £940

Then I heard from retailers the exact prices they were actually going to be charging, and finally both Asus and MSI told me how much they were going to be charging for their various non-MSRP cards.

And it all stinks. Bad. Like, real sorry-for-my-guts-but-I've-been-subsisting-on-Taco-Bell-solidly-for-nine-weeks-straight-type bad.

This MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus card is $970. At best, with no guarantee retailers aren't going to decide to go above MSI's own MSRP for the card.