Facepalm: You might think that the RTX 5000 series couldn't run into any more problems, but Nvidia continues to find ways to make the worst GPU series release even worse. Following the poor reviews of the RTX 5070, reports claim there will be no Founders Edition versions of the card available during today's launch. Hardware Luxx editor Andreas Schilling writes that Nvidia informed him that no RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards would be available during today's launch just two and a half hours before the review embargo lifted. The company wrote that the RTX 5070 FE will be available later in March. This applies worldwide, not just in Germany.Third-party RTX 5070 cards will launch today at 6am PT / 9am EST. Newegg currently only lists cards with the MSRP, and even those are listed as out of stock.Best Buy also has several third-party RTX 5070 cards at MSRP, along with a few more expensive models, two of which are priced at $740. The retailer also lists an RTX 5070 FE, though it's likely that it will remain listed as 'Coming Soon' until later this month.Nvidia had originally planned to release the RTX 5070 in February, but last month it pushed the launch date back to March. The company never gave a reason for this decision, though it was suspected to be related to boosting stock levels and competing with AMD's RX 9070 series, which arrive tomorrow perhaps Nvidia is already regretting the decision?Reviewers have slammed Nvidia for claiming the $549 RTX 5070 would offer performance on par with the $1,600 RTX 4090. That claim only referred to the Blackwell card's use of multi-frame generation, of course. Our six-game average chart (1440p, ray tracing), saw even the RTX 4070 Super outperform the RTX 5070, while the RTX 4070 Ti was still ahead in 4K ray-tracing results. We awarded the card a score of 60, noting that it is essentially a refreshed RTX 4070 Super with $50 knocked off the MSRP.On top of the sub-par reviews, the RTX 5070 will have to deal with today's launch of AMD's RX 9070 and 9070 XT. According to industry insiders, Team Red's stock levels will be "much healthier" than those of the RTX 5070. // Related Stories