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
Get the 4 MB edition for just 399,95 and the 8 MB one for 799,95!!
2000 USD for a 9070XT?
This Could very well become "the new normal" very soon, the prices are already climbing very fast for AMD GPUs.
Because AMD can not deliver all the GPUs Nvidia no longer makes.
I don't see why consoles would get delayed. If they are to be on an older nm, there should be enough spare production capacity. Especially if they do what Nintendo did. Longer production time until release. Consumer chips don't always need to be on the bleeding edge node wise. Let businesses pick up that new cost on being bleeding edge and consumers stuff comes around a couple years later when those new fancy machines have been paid for.
I think in this specific situation it's probably closer to true. Nvidia is denying it, but only at face-value. Their carefully selected words indicate that the products have not been discontinued or EOL'd, and that there's still demand. It doesn't say they're still shipping the same volume or as much as the demand in anyway. The truth is probably in between the statements and rumors. They likely are trickling supply, just enough they can say they're still shipping parts, but not enough that shelves will be stocked with reasonably priced products.
Nvidia has no obligation to make any more RTX cards (gamer variants or professional variants) than they think will prevent a loss of company value or outrage on a scale that causes them long-term issues. As long as they meet their contractual obligations, they can (and likely will) shift all production possible to the maximum-profit lines (i.e. datacenter products). They owe that to their investors who only care that stonks go up. They also want that for their own pockets because whatever money they already have is never enough for them.
In any case, it's a completely expected and obvious story-line. MLID is just generating clicks/views by stating the obvious.
Prices depends on buyers, if they are willing to pay 2k for any gpu's. That is sick, MOO.
Nvidia sees the writing on the AI wall and wants to pump out their orders for payment ASAP before the bubble bursts and they are left holding a bunch of overvalued AI cards, gamers be damned.
This is fine
:)
Our hobby, i'm afraid is gone, it will linger on for years as long as our hardware dose not break, but it will never be as it was in the 1999-2025 period.
On a bright note, if you own or know how to repair and maintain PC parts, the next years will see your business boom :))
Just pay for the streaming. First 100 hours are FREE (after you paid for it, will be 100 minutes in 2 years), then every hour extra, you will pay for it!
So pay for something you do not own.
That is clearly the best solution!
Its beyond embarrassing, its just intentionally misleading bs.
If Nvidia stop who will step in?
Like some say Matrox? S3? 3Dlabs? Apple? Samsung?
You will have the greatest (and only) option, a subscribtion based model!
Nvidia is not serious at all about "getting cards to customers". They enjoy the scalping because it pushes prices up and ensures 100% of inventory is sold.
I am glad they ended SLI/crossfire because it got rid of all these children with credit cards wasting money to have show off rigs for social media with multiple GPU...and I'm also glad that they made these cards less desirable for crypto miners (another huge waste of money). But until they address launch day ordering, you all will continue to have this problem getting the card you want.
I got my 5090FE on launch day for MSRP. My friend got his from a scalper trunk of a car for $3000 cash.
I reasoned that if I waited till Black Friday I'd be able to buy a prebuilt with 5090 for reduced price. I was right. But little did I know that "AI" would suddenly push prices through the roof, threaten future supplies and threaten the Super/Ti releases.
Companies like NVidia and Apple that refuse to allow MSRPs to properly float in times of shortages do so out of the misguided belief that, by surrendering the excess profits, they're buying goodwill among consumers. They're not. The level of hysterical anti-corporate ignorance and bias is far too high.
This is just like crypto that was going to do all our payments for us.
It ain't and it won't.
ICYMI, the PC gaming space has been booming and especially the hardware part of it, in the last years. It is more alive than it has ever been, both hardware and software space. And that is despite crypto eating all those GPUs. But now, because AI and because some cloud services exist that get pushed (and none are turning a profit yet, btw!) for gaming, the world has suddenly changed? I don't think so ;)
During the crypto scam I could buy every other part except a GPU, or find used deals on a GPU, now thanks to the AI slop you can't buy anything, or you have to pay up the price gouged prices or just have an empty PC case to look at especially for anyone who missed out on normal priced hardware.
Every major corpo is in on the AI bubble, governments are handing out piles of money to AI companies so we'll be forced to use AI one way or another, as a matter of control of what you can do on your PC, if PC's and parts will even be obtainable anytime soon. Several tech CEO's have admitted they don't want the average user to have local computing power because that means we won't have to rely on renting computing power in the cloud. None of these AI companies or those involved except Nvidia are making a profit, CEO's are getting desperate telling people that AI is going to be the best thing ever, but the desperation and no ROI doesn't seem to matter when investors keep getting gaslit over AI being anything more than a bunch of chatbots and LLM's consuming massive amounts of electricity and water.
With AI we are talking all branches of governments, all businesses from mom and pop stores and individuals that work at home to trillion $ corporations, all use and will use AI.
And the cherry on the cake is the militaries of the world, cyberwarfare, electronic warfare, drone warfare and any other type of sea, land, air or space warfare will have AI integrated in some way. The AI era is just starting ...