March is the true showdown between Nvidia and AMD, especially if this new rumor about the RTX 5070's delay is legitimate.

The delay has moved the RTX 5070 Ti's launch to February 20, with the review embargo lifting a day earlier. Suspiciously absent from NVIDIA's embargo dates is the standard RTX 5070 without the "Ti" stamp.

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.

Originally set for a February 2025 release window, graphics cards based on the new gaming GPU are reportedly not coming out for a while yet.

Rumours claim that Nvidia will delay GeForce RTX 5070 to "early March", sharing the same launch window as Radeon RX 9070 XT.

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