Today, Nvidia announced that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU will be available starting February 20th at 6 am Pacific, 9 AM Eastern and 2 PM U.K. The announcement said the GPUs would be available from Nvidia's "add-in partners and system integrators."

The best argument for grabbing a 5080 right now, if you can find one at $999 in the first place, is that the only cards that come close to its performance are either way more expensive than they're supposed to be (the 4080 Super) or not cheap enough to justify the Nvidia-specific features you give up (AMD's Radeon 7900 XTX).

Nvidia will start selling the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti on Feb. 20. Following leaks that also mentioned the Feb. 20 date, Nvidia confirmed the launch in a tweet that says sales start at 6 a.m. PST that day.