# NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

10 Hacker News commenters recommended NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fast graphics card people praise for most tasks at around $543. Critics say its 12GB VRAM and compute-heavy design make it weak for local LLMs.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong performance on most tasks (2 comments): "absolutely rocks with almost everything I throw at it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126182)) "it reacted faster than a human would" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262494))

## What people warn about

- Compute-heavy design weak for LLMs (3 comments): "they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM), which is great for gamers but not so great for running LLMs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547739)) "they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557176)) "A typical consumer GPU, like RTX 5070, has a 3-times lower memory throughput." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832009))
- Street prices above list price (3 comments): "In 2025 you can get the RTX 5070 with 12 GB of VRAM. They say the price is $549, but good luck finding them at that price." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044817)) "For $650 you can go up to 12 GB in the 5070" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162398)) "Now the 5060/70s are 4 figure cards." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262367))
- Marketed performance overstated (3 comments): "NVIDIA themselves said that the 5070 had 4090 performance because it supports framegen." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135768)) "The 5070 honestly feel more like xx60ti class instead of xx70 class" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015928)) "claimed the RTX 5070 would deliver" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496551))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090.md): 116 recommend
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090.md): 102 recommend
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000.md): 77 recommend
- [Nvidia GPUs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-gpus.md): 67 recommend
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus.md): 48 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=NVIDIA+GeForce+RTX+5070+12GB+graphics+card&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Official site](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).