NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Ranked 24 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
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.
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.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 56%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong performance on most tasks
“absolutely rocks with almost everything I throw at it”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features” “it reacted faster than a human would”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Compute-heavy design weak for LLMs
“they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM), which is great for gamers but not so great for running LLMs”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?” “they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM)”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?” “A typical consumer GPU, like RTX 5070, has a 3-times lower memory throughput.”
Comment from 20 Apr 2026 in “The RAM shortage could last years” Street prices above list price
“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.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage” “For $650 you can go up to 12 GB in the 5070”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs” “Now the 5060/70s are 4 figure cards.”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs” Marketed performance overstated
“NVIDIA themselves said that the 5070 had 4090 performance because it supports framegen.”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series” “The 5070 honestly feel more like xx60ti class instead of xx70 class”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?” “claimed the RTX 5070 would deliver”
Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070This page | 10 | 8 | 56% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
16 of the 18 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The 5070 honestly feel more like xx60ti class instead of xx70 class”
“Runs fine on 2x4080s or on two 5060/5070s with 16GBVRAM... and faster than on the mac.”
“they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM)”
“they are quite skewed toward compute (vs VRAM), which is great for gamers but not so great for running LLMs”
“Yes it has the same number of cores as a 5070 mobile.”
“Now the 5060/70s are 4 figure cards.”
“absolutely rocks with almost everything I throw at it”
“A typical consumer GPU, like RTX 5070, has a 3-times lower memory throughput.”
“I have a Ryzen 9800X3D with RTX 5070, 128GB of RAM and TBs of Gen 5.0 NVMes.”
“claimed the RTX 5070 would deliver”
“it reacted faster than a human would”
“For $650 you can go up to 12 GB in the 5070”
“NVIDIA themselves said that the 5070 had 4090 performance because it supports framegen.”
“ASUS Prime RTX 5070 12GB for $543”
“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.”
“which is quite loud under load”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.