New RTX 5070 variant could help bolster GPU supply but it surely won't help prices

Summary

There are reports today that Nvidia is going to be releasing a new variant of its GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card with a cut-down GB203 GPU instead of the GB205 chip it originally launched with. Could this be good news for consumers? Well, no and maybe. The idea behind using bigger chips to fill out the inventory of smaller cards basically gives…