GeForce RTX 5070
A good 1440p card that would be a great one with four more gigabytes.
Average in-stock listing $1,171 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $801), 2.1 times the $549 launch MSRP. See its price history. The links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
Will it run your models?
VRAM meterLocal AI fit: 13B-14B class models. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Open models that fit comfortably at Q4
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 2.2 GiB
- Qwen3 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 2.2 GiB
- Phi-4 (14B) 14.7B · 8.2 GiB · headroom 2.3 GiB
- Gemma 3 12B IT 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 3.7 GiB
- Mistral NeMo 12B Instruct (2407) 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 3.7 GiB
- Qwen3.5 9B 9.65B · 5.4 GiB · headroom 5.1 GiB
- Gemma 2 9B IT 9.24B · 5.2 GiB · headroom 5.3 GiB
- Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct 8.29B · 4.6 GiB · headroom 5.9 GiB
What it costs to run
250W of board power, 4 hours a day under load, priced at the residential electricity rate where you live. Pick a state and the numbers update.
Board power is the rated maximum; real gaming load usually sits below it and idle is a few watts, so treat this as the ceiling. Rates: EIA residential average, May 2026. See every card ranked by running cost →
Why you buy it
- Efficient 250W board power
- DLSS multi-frame generation
- Strong 1440p numbers
Why you hesitate
- 12GB VRAM at $549
- AMD offers 16GB at the same or lower price
The editor's take
Solid 1440p performance, sane power draw, full feature stack. The 12GB buffer is the asterisk: it is enough today, but both AMD alternatives at this price carry 16GB, and games keep eating memory. Buy it if DLSS matters to you; buy the 9070 if longevity per dollar matters more.
Decided?
Live listings for the GeForce RTX 5070, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $1,171 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $801), 2.1 times the $549 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.