Overview
- Hardware Unboxed reported that ASUS labeled the RTX 5070 Ti as end of life and stopped producing the 16GB 5060 Ti, with retailers in Australia and the US citing no incoming stock and sharp price increases.
- ASUS later clarified that earlier messaging reflected incomplete information and said there are no plans at the factory to discontinue those GPUs, framing current scarcity as a memory‑supply constraint.
- Industry reporting points to Nvidia reallocating limited GDDR7 by VRAM size, favoring 8GB models and the 16GB RTX 5080 over midrange 16GB cards such as the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB.
- Tom’s Hardware, citing comments from Gigabyte’s CEO, outlined a revenue‑per‑gigabyte calculus that would steer supply toward the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, RTX 5070, and RTX 5080 while leaving 16GB midrange SKUs in short supply.
- Multiple outlets report the planned RTX 50‑series Super refresh has been postponed, as AMD’s RDNA4 cards using GDDR6 appear less constrained and currently show stronger availability.