By Ben Hardwidge
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 10:58:00
This Black Friday is shaping up to be a great time to grab a new gaming GPU upgrade, with the price of an MSI Shadow 2X Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card now sitting at just £449, its lowest ever price on Amazon UK. To put that price into context, Nvidia’s current UK MSRP for the RTX 5070 is £499, meaning you’re saving 10%, and while we’ve seen occasional drops to around the £470 mark for MSI cards such as this one, we’ve never seen the 5070 price drop this low before.
MSI Shadow 2X Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
£479 £449
“This big and beautiful pixel pusher is full of features that delight and surprise.” – Read our review.
At £449, we can more readily forgive the RTX 5070’s main shortcoming, which is its comparative lack of VRAM. RTX 5070 cards might come equipped with the latest super-fast GDDR7 memory, running at an effective speed of 28Gbps, but there’s only 12GB of it, and the total bandwidth is limited by its comparatively narrow 192-bit memory interface. That’s still enough memory to run most of the latest games at 1920×1080 and 2560×1440 with decent settings, as we found in our RTX 5070 review. However, it falls over if you start to run really memory-intensive settings in some of the latest games, such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with path tracing enabled.
That’s usually a problem for the RTX 5070 at its usual £499 price, as you can get a Radeon RX 9070 with 16GB of memory for a similar amount of money….
