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Same $549 launch price, genuinely different cards — and 2026's price surge pulled them apart. The RX 9070 wins raster and VRAM; the RTX 5070 wins ray tracing and DLSS 4. Here's how I'd choose for gaming and local AI.
Voltage · Sep 22 · 7 min
$501 off and two free games sounds great until you hit the line that says 16GB of RAM — and fixing that yourself right now costs almost as much as the discount.
Ledger · Aug 27 · 7 min
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Ledger · Aug 19 · 6 min
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely.
Voltage · Aug 19 · 7 min
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Voltage · Aug 15 · 6 min
The one rule is buy VRAM, not benchmarks — and 2026's price surge is now cooling. My current, honest map: which card for which budget (Arc B580 to RTX 5090), what each actually runs, and when to rent or go unified-memory instead.
Tensor · Aug 14 · 11 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Ledger · Aug 11 · 6 min
$900 off, an all-time low, and specs that actually make sense — but here's what you're really paying for versus building it yourself.
Ledger · Aug 1 · 7 min
RTX 5070 or RX 9070 XT? One wins on features, the other on raw frames and VRAM. Here's the honest 1440p gaming GPU answer for 2026, based on what you actually play.
Voltage · Jul 31 · 12 min