The MSI RTX 5070 drops below $500 at the Black Friday 2025 sale

The MSI RTX 5070 is one of the best GPUs you can buy for a proper 1440p gaming setup. It is also quite capable of playing titles that feature ray-tracing, thanks to technologies such as DLSS 4 upscaling, Ray Reconstruction, and more. However, the GPU was selling for a much higher price than its MSRP, which degraded its value.

Thankfully, it recently came down to its launch price of $559.99. Moreover, it is currently available for under $500 as part of Newegg's Black Friday 2025 sale. In this article, we will discuss some performance benchmarks to explain what kind of experience you can expect from the GPU and whether you should consider buying it.

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The MSI Ventus RTX 5070 drops below $500

The MSI RTX 5070 was recently being sold for around $559.99, but the Black Friday 2025 discount has brought its price down to $499.99 on Newegg. Here's what this GPU has to offer:

Specifications

The design of MSI Ventus RTX 5070 (Image via MSI)

Here are the specifications of the RTX 5070:

Settings	Details
Architecture	Blackwell
Shader cores	6144
RT cores	48
TMUs	192
ROPs	80
Base core clock speeds	2325 MHz
Boost core clock speeds	2512 MHz
Memory capacity	12GB GDDR7
Memory bus width	192-bit
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s
Manufacturing node	5nm
Thermal design power (TDPs)	250W

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Performance

Here's how the RTX 5070 performs in some popular games on the market:

Games	Performance
God of War Ragnarok	129 FPS
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2	73 FPS
Forza Horizon 5	140 FPS
Cyberpunk 2077	74 FPS
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2	64 FPS
Black Myth Wukong	46 FPS
Starfield	68 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2	114 FPS
Horizon Forbidden West	97 FPS
Ghost of Tsushima	72 FPS

Note: This GPU was evaluated at 1440p resolution with High/Ultra Settings, unless otherwise specified. All the FPS numbers were sourced from the Testing Games channel on YouTube. For the above tests, this graphics card was paired with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU.

At the 1440p resolution, the RTX 5070 delivered 60+ FPS in every tested game except for Black Myth Wukong. However, Wukong was being tested at its maximum settings, and lowering them to High or even simply enabling DLSS pushes the performance to 60+ FPS.

Furthermore, three of the tested games ran at 100+ FPS despite being quite graphically intensive, showing just how capable and powerful this card is.

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Should you buy the MSI RTX 5070 for $499?

The MSI RTX 5070 has a thick heatsink for better thermal performance (Image via MSI)

The performance that the RTX 5070 delivers is simply amazing. It is more than capable of playing any title at 1440p with 60+ FPS, both now and in the near future. Tools like DLSS upscaling can further improve performance in games. The card is also quite capable of running ray-tracing titles.

Given that it's one of the best GPUs for 1440p gaming, its discounted pricing of $499.99 makes the MSI RTX 5070 an extremely attractive option. Therefore, if you are in the market for a new GPU, you should certainly consider buying it.

However, if you want an even more powerful GPU for 4K gaming, note that the Radeon RX 9070 XT is also heavily discounted right now.