Online stores leak painful RTX 5070 Ti pricing as 400 EUR markup destroys mid-range value

The much-awaited Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 are slated to arrive at retailers on February 20, according to recent leaks, but a new price leak from one of those very same retailers has recently stifled the excitement. 

According to a handful of retail leaks, one French listing and one Austrian, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti may retail for as much as €1,199.99. The official European MSRP for the RTX 5070 Ti is €884, both for Austria and France, but the leaked retial listings reveal a price of €1,149.99 at the unnamed French retailer and €1,199.99 from the Austrian outlet MediaMarkt (via VideoCardz). 

This high pricing may be due to high expected demand and relatively low availability, which we reported on previously. As of the time of writing, it looks as though the RTX 5070 Ti will see around a 5–10% performance boost over the RTX 4070 Ti Super, making it ever so slightly faster than the AMD Radeon RX 7900XT (which can be found for around $749.99 at Best Buy). 

At this rate, it looks like the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti are slated to suffer from the same price gouging and supply shortages as the already-released GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards, which have been basically unobtainable since launch, aside from in a handful of prebuilt PCs.