Nvidia Delays RTX 5070 Launch to March, Likely to Counter AMD

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Nvidia Delays RTX 5070 Launch to March, Likely to Counter AMD
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Nvidia has officially pushed back the launch of its RTX 5070 GPU from February to early March. This delay is speculated to be a strategic move to coincide with the release of AMD's competing Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs, which AMD itself has also delayed for optimization and performance enhancements.

from some time in February to early March. Well, it turns out that's true. Nvidia has updated its website and given a Nvidia originally said both GPU s would be available in February, though didn't put a specific date on that. So, a March 5 release for the RTX 5070 is definitely a delay. The question is why?after their launch. Pushing the launch of the RTX 5070 back by a couple of weeks could help with that.

AMD never said that would happen. However AMD has said that it decided to delay both cards to give them a little polish."We are taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR 4 titles," AMD'sas the launch window for those new GPUs. With that in mind, Nvidia also moving the RTX 5070 to early March seems like a little too much of a coincidence.

Of course, all of this will be academic for most gamers unless both Nvidia and AMD manage to get a decent number of cards onto retail shelves. Comments on X in response to Nvidia's announcement of the launch dates say it all." If the AMD RX 9070 XT is as beefy as these leaked specs and benchmark makes out, low Nvidia 50-series stocks might not matter

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