The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 is here at long last, going on sale on April 13, 2023, for a US MSRP of $599 (about £500 / 870), and midrange gamers finally have a graphics card that they might actually be able to afford — if they can find one to buy.
Naturally, demand for what is arguably the best graphics card for most gamers out there is through the roof, and while we haven’t seen the kind of awful bot swarms buying up stock within seconds as we did back in 2020, there are still plenty of shopping carts that are going empty right now.
To help you find a new RTX 4070, we’re trawling the entire internet looking for stock wherever we can find it (though we’ll be skipping eBay and other reseller sites, because eff those folks). As we turn up new stock over the next few hours and over the next few days, we’re going to bring what we find right here so you can jump on it ASAP.
We know how hard it’s been to find a new graphics card over the past few years. We’ve covered the GPU stock crisis extensively — and infuriated more than a few crypto bros in the process with some of our hot takes — and so we’ve never been more excited to help you finally get the GPU upgrade you’ve been waiting for. We promise, it’s totally worth it.
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The Nvidia RTX 4070 is opening today, and I’m winding up to spend my day trawling through retailer sites across the US and the UK – all for you, our lovely readers, so you can (hopefully!) snag what might just be my favorite RTX 4000 card Nvidia has made so far.
I’m Christian Guyton, TechRadar’s UK Computing Editor, coming to you from sunny (but not for long, apparently) Bath, England – and I’m pumped for this launch. While we’ve seen some great GPUs launched in the past few months, from the mighty flagship RTX 4090 to the, uh, less impressive RTX 4080, they’ve all been a bit pricey for my liking.
Not so with the RTX 4070, though! Nvidia’s latest Lovelace GPU comes in at $599 / £599, bringing Nvidia’s next-gen graphics architecture to the masses at last. We’re talking 4K gaming at 60+fps with DLSS 3, a big generational improvement in ray-traced games, and less power-guzzling tendencies than the more expensive cards.
Sure, it’s a hundred bucks more expensive than its predecessor, the awesome RTX 3070, but the performance leap justifies the price and it’s still the most affordable next-gen GPU you can buy right now – at least, until AMD finally releases more Radeon RX 7000 cards, though who knows when that’ll be.
We know this is the GPU gamers will really want to buy – after all, the RTX 3070 and 3060 are both in the top 5 most-used cards among PC gamers, according to the Steam Hardware Survey – so we’ll be here as soon as the RTX 4070 launches to help you track one down and secure yourself one of the best graphics cards around.
If you’re here because you want a new GPU but you’re not quite sure which one is the best pick for you, don’t worry: we’re good for more than just tracking retailer stock. The RTX 4070 Ti is also a very strong choice within Nvidia’s next generation of GPUs – it costs a bit more, but it’s naturally got more power behind it.
As such, we’ve got a detailed breakdown pitting the 4070 Ti against the 4070, to help you decide whether it’s really worth springing for the more expensive card. If you’ve potentially got even more cash to play around with, we’ve also got the 4070 vs the 4080 for your consideration too!
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