With the PC market being more than a little underwhelming this year thanks to the global memory shortage, I went into Prime Day last week with a bit of an attitude of looking for the best of a bad bunch. But I was quite pleasantly surprised to find a couple of genuinely impressive gems. So color me double excited that I’ve now found an RTX 5070 gaming PC that beats anything I spotted last week (including a rather nice $1,400 mainstay) .
It’s currently going for $1,349 at Walmart, which puts it right in the middle of a bunch of RTX 5060 Ti gaming PCs that simply cannot compete with it when it comes to gaming. Judging by our RTX 5060 Ti testing, the RTX 5070 nets significantly more frames per second—about 30% more, very roughly—than even the 16 GB version of the lower-end card.
In fact, $1,350 is pretty good even for last year’s pricing, before the memory crisis reared its ugly head.
That being said, there are some telltale signs of that memory crisis: most prominently, just 16 GB of single-channel DDR5 RAM. 16 GB is fine for gaming if 32 GB is too expensive, but having just a single stick of ram isn’t great, depending on the CPU, as our Nick found in his testing.
The Core Ultra 5 250KF Plus here—Nick reviewed the non-F version—has about the same amount of cache as the 5600X, and the system with the latter was shown to drop some fps when switching from dual to single channel RAM. It’s not a catastrophic drop, though, just a few percent on average.
As long as you bear that caveat in mind, though, this PC is well worth a look if you want solid mid-range gaming performance for cheap. The chassis is nice, and you get an AIO to keep that CPU cool. You even get a mouse and keyboard, which will be useful if you’re coming at PC gaming fresh and need the peripherals.
Ultimately, though, it’s the RTX 5070 that’s the main draw, as usually you have to pay a couple hundred more dollars than this to get one in a prebuilt gaming PC. Long may the post-Prime Day gems continue to surface.
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