Gigabyte’s ray tracing-ready RTX 3070 graphics card isn’t just available, it’s $130 off
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZY17)
The Gigabyte version of the RTX 3070 has triple-fan cooling the company calls Windforce. | Image: Gigabyte While the chip shortage has touched everything from appliances to cars, one segment of tech that's seen the most challenges is graphics cards. The latest GPUs have been getting bought up and resold by price gougers since the beginning of the pandemic, but now, after signs began looking up in 2022, we're getting the occasional deal.
Today sees the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 drop to $599.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. This is a $130 discount off its regular price of $729.99 and is the lowest we've seen thus far for this model. Now, that is still a little pricier than the base $499.99 Nvidia RTX 3070, but it's common for manufacturers like Gigabyte to build off Nvidia's reference design and enhance the specs - like this card's Windforce...