Who'd have thought - Amazon Resale is the place to get an Nvidia GPU for a somewhat reasonable price

Amazon Resale (formerly the Amazon Warehouse) tin occasionally propulsion up a decent woody connected computing hardware, conscionable arsenic agelong arsenic you don't caput a damaged container oregon possibly a missing manual. In this instance, it's allowing for this MSI RTX 5070 Ventus 3X graphics paper to driblet down to beneath its MSRP - an actual discount down to £449 for a 'Used - Like New' paper - thing that seems precise rare, fixed the existent RAM situation and such.

James mightiness not person been too impressed by the RTX 5070 successful his review, arguing that the paper was much oregon little an RTX 4070 Super with the added powers of Nvidia's DLSS 4 upscaler for 2025. Performance is mostly akin betwixt the 2 cards astatine 1440p and 4K, though the RTX 5070 nevertheless supplements beardown mid-range show with Nvidia's multi-frame-gen tech and the caller DLSS Transformer exemplary for amended solution of good detail.

At the extremity of the month, you'll besides person entree to the updated DLSS 4.5 featureset, adding adjacent much multi-frame-gen powers if you privation them. This includes a caller 6x multiplier and, much integrally, a 'dynamic' mode that automatically adjusts the multiplier depending connected the people FPS you set.

I saw this 'dynamic' mode successful enactment astatine a caller Nvidia event, and portion moving astir a demo map, it caused the multiplier to alteration from everything from 2x up to 4x; the changeover didn't look jarring arsenic it went up and down depending connected the environment. How this volition enactment retired successful real-world investigating remains to beryllium seen, though. To instrumentality vantage of each of the caller features, you'll request an RTX 50-series GPU, and the 5070 seems similar a bully upgrade people if you're connected older hardware.

Plus, you whitethorn good get entree to DLSS 5 astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth – great – I'm truthful excited not to usage it.

This MSI paper is perfect for smaller builds, with a 2.5-slot design, and comes with a beefy triple-fan cooler to boot. It is besides a mill overclocked variant to perchance eke retired immoderate much performance, and comes with 3 DP 2.1b and a azygous HDMI 2.1b transportation connected the rear for hooking up to an outer display.

It whitethorn person been a spot of a disappointing upgrade implicit the aged RTX 4070 Super, but the RTX 5070 successful the large 2026 remains a susceptible paper for mid-range 1440p gaming with each the powers of DLSS 4 (and subsequently DLSS 4.5). For nether MSRP, this is rather bully – if you'd similar a caller card, though, this Asus Dual paper is £498 from CCL, and comes with Resident Evil Requiem for free.