NVIDIA have announced that the GeForce RTX 4070 cards have made their way downunder and have been given a price point that won’t require you to start working a second job to afford.

The base price for the card is $1099, meaning that if you just want the basic card, which will dwarf all the previous generations still, you are paying a lot less than the other RTX 4XXX cards. In addition if you want to increase ram or other functions, the cards only go up a few hundred dollars above that.

To put things into perspective, the 4090 series start at $2999, the 4080 series $1999 and the 4070 Ti series, which is the cousin to the 4070, begins at $1399. So even if you went the cheapest card in the 4070 Ti series, you are still paying $300 more.

Of course, retailers will have sales and such, so the prices will change all the time, so don’t take these as firm and always check with your preferred location.

A cheap price is all well and good, but what does that mean for performance? Well compared to the RTX 2070 SUPER, the GeForce RTX 4070 is on average 2.6x faster with DLSS 3, and on average 1.4x faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 with DLSS 3.

DLSS 3 provides Ada Lovelace GPUs with a tremendous performance boost, but the GeForce RTX 4070 also excels in traditional games that do not include more advanced features such as ray tracing and DLSS.

In these rasterized games, the GeForce RTX 4070 is on par with the GeForce RTX 3080 while running at nearly half the power — and offering an additional 2GB of memory. Additionally, the RTX 4070’s memory subsystem has been enhanced with 36MB of L2 cache and 12GB of ultra-high-speed GDDR6X memory.

What all that means is that the RTX 4070 allows the latest games such as A Plague Tale: Requiem, Dying Light 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and other demanding titles to run at over 100 frames per second.

If you have been waiting to upgrade your graphics card, now might be the time.