Zotac’s new RTX 5070 card is gorgeous. Too dangerous, you possibly can’t have it

I’ve gone on the document earlier than as being in favor of graphics playing cards themed after—if not essentially lined in—anime waifus, to say nothing of motherboards themed after pleasant cartoon cats. We deserve selection in our desktop elements, is what I’m saying right here. And it seems that Zotac desires to ship stated selection with its newest RTX 5070. The one draw back is that, for a lot of causes, I’ll by no means get to clap eyes on it.

This X-Gaming variant (noticed by VideoCardz) is made as a little bit of licensed merch for JX On-line 3, an MMO that’s vastly fashionable in China even after practically a decade. However extra related to me is that it really has some shade except for black, white, and brushed steel. The primary shroud has a pleasing pink-to-teal gradient occurring that jogs my memory of that one disposable cup sample from the 90s, you recognize the one. There’s additionally maybe a little bit of 90s tribal tattoo thrown in. However perhaps that’s iconography from the sport? I wouldn’t know because it’s solely out there in China (and that’s what we name foreshadowing).

Admittedly, the entire bundle is let down by the again of the graphics card, which is a printed plate crammed with characters from the sport in a really “get all of them onto the identical Photoshop canvas” type of manner. Even for those who insist on getting photographs from the sport in there, it could possibly be completed with just a little extra class, perhaps by specializing in only one and going with their colours. One other Zotac design—this one apparently additionally JX On-line 3-themed—is a little more refined, although not as eye-catching.

However as I stated earlier than, it hardly issues. Neither this spiffy-looking sport tie-in nor the non-licensed common X-Gaming model of the 5070 with an analogous entrance shroud are displaying up on the US model of the Zotac website. And your solely different choices for a unique-looking RTX 50-series card may be disqualified because of private finances… or style. And all of that is educational anyway, since these playing cards are nonetheless in extraordinarily quick provide.