Nvidia’s RTX 5070 GPU has been pushed back to early March as predicted – and now, with that confirmed, we can speculate as to why.

Previous rumors have hinted at a delay to March, and the RTX 5070 graphics card is conspicuously missing from all the current chatter about the RTX 5070 Ti.

If the rumors are true, March is shaping up to be a big month for next-gen graphics cards. Early this year, Nvidia was planning to release its midrange RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 GPUs in February, but word from Wccftech is that a new rumor suggests we’ll see at least one version of the RTX 5070 in early March.

To recap, the RTX 5070 was unveiled by Jensen Huang at CES last month, wielding the GB205 GPU at its heart with 48 SMs (6,144 CUDA cores) and 12GB of GDDR7 memory. The GPU offers