Friday, January 16th 2026

NVIDIA Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next

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AleksandarK
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NVIDIA has reportedly stopped production of its mid-range GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, according to ASUS, one of the largest PC manufacturers. ASUS shared exclusive information with Hardware Unboxed, revealing that NVIDIA has created a supply shortage for the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, effectively ending its production. As one of NVIDIA's largest AIB partners, ASUS has learned that the model is essentially in end-of-life status. The company noted the supply shortage and offered no further comments on availability or potential improvements in supply. Since retailers and manufacturers can't source enough stock of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPUs, the shortage has led to significant price increases for these models and suggests that the future availability of this GPU SKU might be nonexistent.

Update 2, January 16, 08:30 UTC: ASUS issued an official public statement regarding the "incomplete" information about the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti EOL.
ASUSWe would like to clarify recent reports regarding the ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. Certain media may have received incomplete information from an ASUS PR representative regarding these products. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL). ASUS has no plans to stop selling these models. Current fluctuations in supply for both products are primarily due to memory supply constraints, which have temporarily affected production output and restocking cycles. As a result, availability may appear limited in certain markets, but this should not be interpreted as a production halt or product retirement. ASUS will continue to support the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and is working closely with partners to stabilize supply as conditions improve.
Below is an older update and the remaining of the original text.

Update 1, 19:45 UTC: NVIDIA issued a statement to HardwareLuxx confirming that the series remains in production, but elevated demand is drying up the inventory.
NVIDIA to HardwareLuxxWhat changes are occurring in the GeForce ecosystem given the current memory market?
Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability.
The next phase of the silent production end is approaching for the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB version, with resources reportedly being redirected to the lower-capacity GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB version. Stocks of the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB SKU have been dwindling across retailers and distributors, and prices are beginning to reflect this scarcity. The massive industry DRAM shortage has affected even graphics GDDR7 memory. As a result, the lower-capacity 8 GB version will remain available until the supply chain and memory production improve. Yesterday's rumors also confirm that the regular RTX 5060 will be the priority card for NVIDIA going forward, for that segment.

Additionally, ASUS provided information about the previously rumored CES launch of the RTX 50 "SUPER" refresh, which was expected to have higher memory capacity. According to the AIB, this launch did not occur, although the original plan was indeed for a CES launch, which was postponed. Currently, there are no plans to release a series refresh, and some AIBs have reportedly expressed frustration over the sudden change. It seems the rumor about the SUPER launch being postponed was true, with the primary reason being the shortage of high-capacity GDDR7 memory.
Source: Hardware Unboxed

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210 Comments on NVIDIA Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next

#76
wolf
Better Than Native
cinemawarehypocrisy and crocodile tears people ITT are shedding over 5070Ti?
If there were a Venn diagram where the two groups were people who consistently recommend a 9070XT over a 5070Ti anyway, downplayed the feature and hardware advantages etc, and the ones ITT throwing shade, I think it'd fairly resemble a circle.
cinemawareIt's amazing how easily people can lose their minds over a rumour that predictably turned out be a lot of hot air from, predictably, Hardware Unboxed. But they got their clicks and the believers their narrative reinforced, so it's all good I guess.
It's one of my major criticisms of HUB and their overall content direction.

They create content, questions, situations, testing etc to 'prove' whatever point they want to make, such is the benefit of coming up with whatever test methodology / content / questions you want so that you end up making the point you want.

And for sure what they relish is news and topics that is bound to cause a stir, lots of conversation l, and above all, division. They know their target audience well, loads of very tribal people about their favourite GPU / CPU maker ready to pounce on the other.

At the end of the day views drive income for them, they'd be silly not to report on this asap and capitalise, especially given their 'style'.
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#77
john_
2025
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: You will have to pay for it. Wait for Super cards.
2026
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: You will have to pay for it. Buy RTX 5080 for over $1000
2027
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: (what do we put here ? ? ? ? ?)
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#78
Bwaze
"Update 19:45 UTC: NVIDIA issued a statement for HardwareLuxx confirming that the series remains in production, but elevated demand is drying up the inventory."

Bullshit. I know it's impossible to see anything for sure, but there have been enough reports now that the numbers of available mid and high end cards are dropping, from various stores and distributers.

German retailer claims it can’t sell RTX 5090, RTX 5080, or RTX 5070 Ti due to “current market conditions”

Now I'm sure there is an elevated demand, I know quite a few people who upgraded their GPU or even their whole PC, even with sky high RAM prices - because they think it will only get worse, for years to come. And what will come out of it on the other end won't be Personal Computer as we know it.

And well, there's no denying the result.

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#80
leonavis
cinemawareAnd our long term survival prognosis doesn't look too rosy. If AI could help to propel us in some new directions, then at least that would count for something.
But... It actively worsens our survival chances by eating up insane amounts of energy
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#81
SSGBryan
Hecate91Intel already f$%^ed up the B770 launch by not announcing anything at CES, even then it's too late, and their launches to market have been too late so far.
Now Intel likely can't get decent pricing on GDDR6, or allocate enough fab space, Intel would have to sell cards at a loss at this point to get any sales as people are probably losing interest in building or upgrading PC's because of all this AI BS.

Ah yes, having less choices and features is always good for consumers. /s

The majority of consumers only having 8 and 12GB if they want an Nvidia card isn't good either, 8GB isn't enough and 12GB barely cuts it in newer titles, of course it's good for Nvidia though, as they can sell consumers a 6000 series card.
Won't be too late if they are available & Nvidia 12 gb and above cards aren't.

The B580 is a pretty good gaming card; I've been real pleased with mine; an added bonus is that Poser 14 (3d art software) has added Intel support. I can throw three B580s into my rig for rendering.
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#82
Rover4444
cinemawareIs there a gif which could demonstrate the hypocrisy and crocodile tears people ITT are shedding over 5070Ti? Because I seem to recall that when Blackwell came out it was declared to be overpriced, backwards, fakeframed moneygrab scam, or something to that effect.
What are you even talking about, at worst it was a 4070 Ti Super with a $50 discount. It's the best value card in NVIDIA's stack aside from the 5060 Ti 16GB.
cinemawareReally, if you read some of the more outlandish conspiracies here, like the one where Nvidia kills the Ti to push 5080, it's pure comedy. Do you really think that a trillion $ company which is now all about AI would have time for such silly games, to earn what from this genius gambit...a few million maybe? Gimme a break.
Yes. And it's billions, actually. They need to keep producing 5080s for GFN, which is why they're not getting cut. They're also the higher value SKU.
john_2025
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: You will have to pay for it. Wait for Super cards.
2026
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: You will have to pay for it. Buy RTX 5080 for over $1000
2027
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: (what do we put here ? ? ? ? ?)
Nvidia: We feel it is in consumer's best interests to exit the consumer market and sell to professionals, OEMs, and datacenter customers only in order to service our global market more evenly.
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#83
Dirt Chip
Nothing To see here, move along. It is just a temporary 'restocking issue'.
All if fine. Believe us. Really.

Slowly boiling that frog, are you Asus?
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#84
yfn_ratchet
It's a wonder they didn't close up shop for less popular stuff like the 5050, 5060Ti 8GB, possibly the 5080. Maybe the scale of the bottom end's sales is too good to pass up on.

I would cross my fingers and hope this means that a SUPER refresh or a new generation is coming soon™, but that seems unlikely. Just another virgin sacrificed to the smoldering volcano of the AI bubble.
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#86
Bwaze
Press Release statements are always at disconnect with reality. Just ask Gigabyte if the fire is hot.
:p
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#87
_roman_
BwazeAnd well, there's no denying the result.
Radeon 9070Xt went also up 100€. In my point of view ~150€

I just checked B-ware (b-grade, return) for radeon 9070. Looks also around 70€ or more surplus.

It is a generic prices are going up by 100€ for graphic cards, when you see it moderately.

-- Someone told someone else, change the statement, we have certain issues sourcing the components. Saying it is End of Life, eol, is bad press.

edit: Some radeon 9070 cards are just gone on geizhals.at. They are listed there with two high price offers. Usually cards where the price is far overpriced or the order will be cancelled anyway.
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#88
sLowEnd
Doesn't matter to the consumer if it's not de jure discontinued, if it's de facto discontinued. People can't buy vaporware.

One would hope that these cards will continue to be available, but the situation isn't looking good and there are no signs that it'll improve in the near term
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#89
Tomorrow
People still denying reality here i see. Fine, call it bad press or whatever soothes your conscious.
Just dont take companies statements as the gospel of truth either.

As if getting a direct quote from an ASUS employee is not valid enough. Now ASUS is throwing their own employee under the bus.
If a reviewer cant even get review samples anymore then it is EOL. Nvidia and AIB's will never admit it tho.

Let the situation play out. We'll see for how long the aforementioned cards even remain in stock and what prices.
5090 has already nearly doubled on price months after it was said that it's production will be heavily throttled.
Now other cards will follow.

I wonder what MSI is feeling right now. They abandoned Radeon to cozy up to Nvidia. Now there's no stock.
But at least they have super-duper limited edition 5090 Lightning so who cares bout the common rabble.
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#90
faquino
Just the same as others like Micron, big players are (again) leaving consumers behind for greed, which appears to be the only sensible approach when running a public company. And as consumers, one thing we can do is to remember this kind of behaviour
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#91
AleXXX666
ThomasKGreat news, everyone!

Everything from Nvidia above 8GB will either be scalped, overpriced or artificially scarce, just like mr. crocodile leather jacket envisioned. And yall got AI to thank for.
I don't need "above 8 GB", I'am avg joe gamer, I don't consider myself as a "creator" (lmfao) nor I am not stupid enough to spend 1000+++ $ on SINGLE GPU ONLY.
TomorrowPeople still denying reality here i see. Fine, call it bad press or whatever soothes your conscious.
Just dont take companies statements as the gospel of truth either.

As if getting a direct quote from an ASUS employee is not valid enough. Now ASUS is throwing their own employee under the bus.
If a reviewer cant even get review samples anymore then it is EOL. Nvidia and AIB's will never admit it tho.

Let the situation play out. We'll see for how long the aforementioned cards even remain in stock and what prices.
5090 has already nearly doubled on price months after it was said that it's production will be heavily throttled.
Now other cards will follow.

I wonder what MSI is feeling right now. They abandoned Radeon to cozy up to Nvidia. Now there's no stock.
But at least they have super-duper limited edition 5090 Lightning so who cares bout the common rabble.
let them buy **90s who could, IDC. Pure show-off card, like supercars (or very powerful mass production cars) for everyday city cruising.
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#92
Dirt Chip
Hecate91Seems like AMD using GDDR6 wasn't a bad thing like some were insisting, keeping prices down while performance isn't significantly worse.
Except it wont keep price down. It can`t. The AI market consume all and every form of NAND, memory chip and GPU. You name it. Even mechanical HDD cost (FFS!!) is skyrocketing just because. Everything is gone. A reverse fire sell is in action and the market is in AI panic mode. USA is racing China\Russia to the AI supremacy, those chips is the currency and a madness of harvesting is in full swing. Us 'peasants consumers' not even considered as collateral damage of the event.
The situation is not even the cost, it`s the very existence of such product who soon won`t be available to parches for as consumer outside of the black market, who I have no doubt is flourishing right now (stay tuned for articles about it...)

In one word: :nutkick:
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#93
Dr. Dro
TomorrowI wonder what MSI is feeling right now. They abandoned Radeon to cozy up to Nvidia. Now there's no stock.
But at least they have super-duper limited edition 5090 Lightning so who cares bout the common rabble.
Pretty well, I'd reckon, especially since they've released several premium products that command massive margins based on Nvidia hardware recently. They're most certainly not hurting for money.

Just as a very crude example of what I'm trying to convey, selling 1000 9070 XT's at $650 with $50 margins ($50,000 profit) vs. selling 100 RTX 5090's at $2,000 (with margins that likely reach the $1000 range, but let's use 600 for an absolute lowball - $60,000) and they still made more money than they'd have selling 10x more AMD cards (which will never ever happen, unless you're Mindfactory). It's brutal out there.
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#94
wolf
Better Than Native
Tek-CheckAsus in a damage control mode.
Asus got HUB'd. If that becomes a trend then these AIB's will be very hesitant to say anything to them, I suspect many already are and they found one Rep that was a little loose lipped and opionated.
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#95
Hecate91
john_2027
Gamers: Nvidia give us more VRAM
Nvidia: (what do we put here ? ? ? ? ?)
Nvidia: mere peasant consumers want more than 8GB VRAM? Pay for Geforce Now to get a 6080 in the cloud.
SSGBryanWon't be too late if they are available & Nvidia 12 gb and above cards aren't.

The B580 is a pretty good gaming card; I've been real pleased with mine; an added bonus is that Poser 14 (3d art software) has added Intel support. I can throw three B580s into my rig for rendering.
Well yeah, I agree with that, having something available is better than not which AMD and Intel are still providing.
I just think the situation would've been better for Intel had they launched B770 last year.
TomorrowPeople still denying reality here i see. Fine, call it bad press or whatever soothes your conscious.
Just dont take companies statements as the gospel of truth either.

As if getting a direct quote from an ASUS employee is not valid enough. Now ASUS is throwing their own employee under the bus.
If a reviewer cant even get review samples anymore then it is EOL. Nvidia and AIB's will never admit it tho.

Let the situation play out. We'll see for how long the aforementioned cards even remain in stock and what prices.
5090 has already nearly doubled on price months after it was said that it's production will be heavily throttled.
Now other cards will follow.

I wonder what MSI is feeling right now. They abandoned Radeon to cozy up to Nvidia. Now there's no stock.
But at least they have super-duper limited edition 5090 Lightning so who cares bout the common rabble.
It is interesting some still think the market is sunshine and roses, the reality is AI is f%^&ing us all over and it's sad there are still some who want to pretend like Jensen still cares about the gaming market.
It's bad news when Asus can't get supply of VRAM enough to sell cards, and they've basically admitted cards will be essentially EOL if people can't buy them anyway.

MSI, like other Geforce AIBs are desperate for ways to sell high end cards, marketing a bunch of fancy SKU's that only the wealthiest influencers will ever buy, instead of priortizing keeping prices lower on higher volume SKU's.
EVGA has continued to have made the right choice on exiting the market, and I bet they're laughing right now as Nvidia are screwing over the gaming market once again.
Dirt ChipExcept it wont keep price down. The AI market consume all and every form of NAND, memory chip, and GPU you name it. Everything is gone.
The situation is not even the cost, it`s the very existence of such product who soon wont be available to parches as consumer outside of the black market who I have no doubt is flourishing right now (stay tuned for articles about it...)

In one word: :nutkick:
It'll be higher prices for AMD cards, vs. paying scalper prices for EOL or nearly unobtainium Nvidia cards.
The priority for the AI market is on HBM and GDDR7, there seems to still be plenty supply of GDDR6, but I guess we'll see if AI grabs up every form of GDDR memory. AI is killing the entire PC market and the bubble has to pop at some point, or maybe it won't and everyone will be forced to rent a PC in the cloud as Microslop and the jacket man wants.
Dr. Droand they still made more money
Or they could make even more money selling both Radeon and Geforce cards, but MSI probably wanted that sweet Nvidia exclusive AIB money.
AleXXX666I don't need "above 8 GB", I'am avg joe gamer, I don't consider myself as a "creator" (lmfao) nor I am not stupid enough to spend 1000+++ $ on SINGLE GPU ONLY.
The average joe gamer also benefits from having more than 8GB of VRAM.
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#96
Bwaze
Hecate91EVGA has continued to have made the right choice on exiting the market, and I bet they're laughing right now as Nvidia are screwing over the gaming market once again.
Most of the AIB partners were well aware of where the whole industry is going, we have seen desperate attempts to enter server market - some under their old gaming brand, other under new brands or are partnering with companies already in the sector. I bet all of a sudden companies that were always basically just in the consumer sector have restructured, and are cutting the dying sector smaller with each passing obstacle.
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#97
sLowEnd
TomorrowI wonder what MSI is feeling right now. They abandoned Radeon to cozy up to Nvidia. Now there's no stock.
Probably nothing. In fact, I would not be surprised if news about AMD reducing GPU allocation for consumer cards pops up later too, given the memory supply situation.
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#98
wolf
Better Than Native
Hecate91Nvidia: mere peasant consumers want more than 8GB VRAM? Pay for Geforce Now to get a 6080 in the cloud.
AMD: our customers want long term support and current features they know work on their (currently sold generation) products? Pony up for only our latest offerings, we're worth mere hundreds of billions, not trillions!

Seems like one of the only bit of Nvidias homework AMD isn't copying.
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#99
Hecate91
BwazeMost of the AIB partners were well aware of where the whole industry is going, we have seen desperate attempts to enter server market - some under their old gaming brand, other under new brands or are partnering with companies already in the sector. I bet all of a sudden companies that were always basically just in the consumer sector have restructured, and are cutting the dying sector smaller with each passing obstacle.
AIBs like Gigabyte and MSI probably knew of this for some time, or planning ahead just in case the market were restructured, even Razer is getting into "AI workstations".
I don't see the gaming market dying off altogether, but with how AI is hoarding memory, Nvidia keeping the bubble inflated, everything PC related getting price increases, the gaming market may be very different as gamers get priced out of buying GPU's and new hardware.
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#100
Bwaze
I wonder what will become of such tech review sites, YouTube reviewers and influencers that are now basically just reporting doom in the consumer sector?

I mean, during cryptohighs when GPUs were basically unavailable to mere mortals, most other sectors saw very little disruption, and we all knew every high is followed by a crash. But now? It's anybody's guess how this will turn out, and we're definitely following the more pessimistic outcomes for now.
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