Early in cycle — strong buy, no urgency to wait
Best for: 1440p gamers who want near-flagship performance at a fraction of the flagship price, and entry-level 4K gamers.
Full details →First-generation product — recently released, still early days
Best for: Gamers interested in Intel's ecosystem who want a 1440p high-end card with 16GB VRAM at a competitive price.
Full details →| NVIDIA RTX 5070 | Intel Arc B770 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tier | High-end | High-end |
| Generation | RTX 5000 | Arc Battlemage |
| VRAM | 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 250W | 250W |
| Upscaling | DLSS4 | XeSS |
| Ray Tracing | ✅ | ✅ |
| Launch MSRP | $549 | $449 |
| Released | Mar 6, 2025 | Mar 15, 2026 |
| Cycle length | ~850 days | — |
| Cycle advice | Buy | Buy |
| Deals advice | Caution | Caution |
| Successor | — | — |
NVIDIA's most disruptive price-to-performance ratio this generation — a generational leap accessible to mainstream budgets.
Lower power draw than the RTX 4070 Super it replaces, while delivering dramatically more performance.
Full Blackwell AI features including multi-frame generation — exclusive to RTX 5000 series.
Intel continues to offer more VRAM per dollar than NVIDIA.
Expected improvements to Intel's AI upscaler.
Higher-tier Battlemage silicon with more cores.