MSI raised prices on RTX 5070 Ti models, signaling potential price hikes by other brands. There's limited availability of RTX 5070 Ti at MSRP due to ongoing supply issues. Nvidia faces competition from AMD with the upcoming RX 9070 XT,

We review and test the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti VANGUARD SOC 16GB graphics card, built on NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, which introduces a range of technical enhancements for both rendering and compute performance.

It turns out that MSI has quietly increased the retail price of its RTX 50-series (Blackwell) GPUs, including models that were supposed to launch at MSRP (via Hardware & Co). This impacts all three Blackwell GPUs released thus far: the RTX 5090,

You knew that Nvidia’s newest graphics cards wouldn’t be cheap, even if you could find one to buy. But between scalpers and tariffs, finding one at anything resembling Nvidia’s suggested retail price is all but impossible.