There's a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It's a shadow that's dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card's edges and, for once, it's a shadow that's only tangentially related to the brutal price gouging that has become the regular coda for this latest GPU generation.
The shadow is being cast over this diminutive GeForce pixel generator—figuratively and literally—by a pair of chonky AMD Radeon graphics cards. While the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT haven't been launched, with fully verified independent testing yet, we know enough about them that they inevitably loom large over every part of this RTX 5070 review.
