New GeForce RTX 4070 video card: where to buy in Russia and why the price is overpriced by 50%?

Recently, sales of a new GeForce RTX 4070 video card from NVIDIA started in Russia, but the joy of its appearance is overshadowed by an inflated price. In Russia, the difference with the recommended price at which this card can be purchased in Europe reaches 50%. Despite the official price of $599, or roughly 49,000 rubles, Russian retailers only offer custom versions of the card, with the cheapest version from Palit priced between 72,000 and 74,000 rubles, while Gigabyte is already selling the card for 75,000 rubles. MSI offers its version for at least 74 thousand rubles. So far, this card cannot be bought in DNS, but it can be purchased in Onlinetrade and Citilink right now.

While the new GeForce RTX 4070 is about 20-25% slower than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, the price difference isn’t that big. In DNS RTX 4070 Ti can be bought for 78 thousand rubles, and in Onlinetrade the minimum price is 83 thousand rubles. However, by the end of May, the cheaper GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is expected to be released, and the regular GeForce RTX 4060 will only be available in the summer. If you want to upgrade your graphics card, then you will have to spend a lot of money on the new GeForce RTX 4070, but is it worth the money? You choose.