Wednesday, April 15th 2026
NVIDIA To Pause RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Supply in Late April
A leak from early 2026 claimed that NVIDIA would be pausing production of the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti for as long as six months starting in the beginning of 2026, with the leaker predicting that supply would start to worsen in the beginning of 2026 and relief only coming in Q4. While it seems as though this may not have come to pass as predicted, a new rumor claims that supply for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB may be halted for two weeks at the end of April 2026. As Gazlog reports, the alleged production halt is as a result of oversupply of the entry-level GPUs.
This production and supply pause means that third-party GPU vendors will not receive 5060 Ti GPUs during this pause, although production is slated to resume in May. The running theory is that the oversupply is causing prices of the 5060 to decline, and the production pause would create artificial scarcity and return the prices to previous levels. Curiously, this news comes hot on the heels of news that NVIDIA may be launching a new 9 GB variant of the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti near Computex around May or June. It should be pointed out that this is merely a rumor and may not come to pass at all, although leaks that come out of Board Channels generally do carry a decent amount of weight.
Source:
Gazlog
This production and supply pause means that third-party GPU vendors will not receive 5060 Ti GPUs during this pause, although production is slated to resume in May. The running theory is that the oversupply is causing prices of the 5060 to decline, and the production pause would create artificial scarcity and return the prices to previous levels. Curiously, this news comes hot on the heels of news that NVIDIA may be launching a new 9 GB variant of the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti near Computex around May or June. It should be pointed out that this is merely a rumor and may not come to pass at all, although leaks that come out of Board Channels generally do carry a decent amount of weight.
14 Comments on NVIDIA To Pause RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Supply in Late April
If so how come we ended up with oversupply?
Why are these cards being made if the demand isn't great?
www.techpowerup.com/342264/nvidia-orders-aic-partners-to-prioritize-16-gb-rtx-5060-ti-as-gamers-reject-8-gb-model
Well maybe it's the product's fault.
Things is nVidia seems to be making a lot of GB206 dies, given they go into two 5060 Ti models and the 5060, thus discontinuing both 5060 Tis and making just one model with 12GB would mean less of the dies produced going into desktop oriented products. More AI then.
Also a lot of memory chips are wasted on both 5060 Ti models. If both are on the shelves at the same time, averaging between them there are 6x 2GB chips for each card. But if the 16GB models outnumber the 8GB ones it means the average is more than 6. Another reason to make the 12GB model with 4x 3GB chips as this would be more economical.
- a comment section near you.Hopefully the 6060/ti corrects this issue. 12GB should be the bare minimum for cards these days.
I don't think NVIDIA deserves our attention anymore, I know they are done for in my book. I will let the fanboi's prop up this company.
same as mcdonalds, supermarkets etc. they are all franchise and want a fix cut. nvidia most likely has the same strategy. we want that fix amount per graphic chips. customers will not consider anything else. that is a hard fact. regardless what it is, nvidia and the marketing seems to be widely accepted and alternatives are hardly worth it for most customers.
with such high adoption rate, maybe 95% of every graphic card sold and used, nvidia can use such strategies. i would not complain, the majority whats that and I have to accept that.
-- hardware does always fine on certain use cases. in some other use cases it struggles. overclocking will you not prevent you from low vram. the pci bus may help you a bit but not in all vram related bottle necks.
Well done mate. That's pretty much how everyone categorizes the 5060ti 8GB to begin with :)