Wednesday, January 21st 2026
NVIDIA Allegedly Pausing RTX 50-Series Supply For Six Months
The AI industry's current demand for silicon, and its knock-on effects in the DIY PC market, has been thoroughly documented, with ensuing memory shortages resulting in reports of the RTX 5060 Ti and 5070 Ti being effectively canceled, and even the upcoming gaming console generation being put on ice until the market stabilizes. Now, according to prolific leaker, Moore's Law Is Dead, NVIDIA is planning to cut production of the GeForce RTX 5060, with the YouTuber citing sources that say the "5060 is done for the next six months," and that NVIDIA has "vastly overbooked AI sales," and needs to pause almost all RTX 50-series production in order to fulfill those orders.
Previous rumors about the RTX 5060 Ti and 5070 Ti production cuts claimed that only the 16 GB models would be severely restricted, with 8 GB models still being available throughout 2026. However, this time around, the 8 GB variants are allegedly being affected as well, although the RTX 5050, which uses older GDDR6 VRAM that isn't as supply-constrained, will be less affected. While cards with 8 GB will still be available, the supply will "trickle in" at low volume. Supposedly, gamers may feel some relief in Q4, 2026, although one source also noted that NVIDIA is planning a roughly 30% price increase across the board, with BOM kits seeing a price increase.
Source:
Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube
Previous rumors about the RTX 5060 Ti and 5070 Ti production cuts claimed that only the 16 GB models would be severely restricted, with 8 GB models still being available throughout 2026. However, this time around, the 8 GB variants are allegedly being affected as well, although the RTX 5050, which uses older GDDR6 VRAM that isn't as supply-constrained, will be less affected. While cards with 8 GB will still be available, the supply will "trickle in" at low volume. Supposedly, gamers may feel some relief in Q4, 2026, although one source also noted that NVIDIA is planning a roughly 30% price increase across the board, with BOM kits seeing a price increase.
118 Comments on NVIDIA Allegedly Pausing RTX 50-Series Supply For Six Months
Nvidia will still make small batches, Jensen will cry he’s “cutting his own throat” to cater to gamers, providing for them “at his own loss”, and the astronomic price increases will be blamed on scalpers.
It's time to hurry up and get ready for summer. Offline Summer.I asked last time also. Well I think the answer is, these rumours are sometimes right.
A broken clock is also right two times a day.
Cant wait to get back to space invaders, commander keen, lemmings.
What a shitstorm of a year, and it’s just begun..
Sometimes I envy the reality you guys live in. Drama every day, it's never boring ;)
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Yeah, I had the card. Sadly. :laugh:It is since 2020. Didn't you get the memo?
I watched MLID vid a while back when he said no one will buy overpriced ram on the used market well that aged like milk.
Trying to imagine how you must feel if you thought Nvidia was all-in on 'RTX'. Ten gigarays bruh! Feeling cheated yet? Or stoked to find out what the next software update on DLSS might bring? tsk tsk tskEvery single Nvidia generation in the history of its Geforce line up goes EOL eventually. It has always been dependant on the exact same metrics, and this is no different. Nvidia's bottom line. Everything else can get fucked. Every promise Nvidia makes on its proprietary featureset, is therefore an empty promise and always has been. It 'just' works as long as it works and Nvidia controls the keys. It gets developed as long as there's a profit in it for team green. There is no real industry support.
I do hope we can reduce RT to the gimmick it really is now, at last. Luckily the hardware situation simply enforces people to get real. As predicted.
The price of RT.
Lovely isn't it, how it works out exactly as I predicted when Huang was yelling ten gigarays at Siggraph before Turing got released. The tech is too expensive for gaming, the economy doesn't work out, you can utilize GPU power much more effectively than this (and make more money with it).
AI will meet the same fate, and Nvidia will have to adjust again. The economy doesn't check out. It costs far too much. Its just another iteration of crypto.
Those cards will be much longer ‘in service’ than any other RTX\GTX line before.
This is just a (sarcasm) 1 year or so stop, than you will be entitled to buy them again (for the same or more $$).
That is, no new SKU's (super variants) are coming and even less are the 6xxx line.
This might be the last gen for the coming years.
If you want more, go and pay for cloud fps monthly.