ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB (engadget.com) 15
Reports suggest ASUS has effectively ended production of NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs due to a severe memory crunch driven by AI infrastructure demand, even as NVIDIA insists it's still shipping all GeForce SKUs. YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed broke the news in its most recent video where it states ASUS "explicitly" told them the RTX 5070 Ti is "currently facing a supply shortage" and has "placed the model into end of life status." The shift leaves PC gamers facing fewer high-VRAM options just as modern games increasingly demand more than 8GB. Engadget reports: Hardware Unboxed also spoke to retailers in Australia, who told the channel the 5070 Ti is "no longer available to purchase from partners and distributors," adding they expect that to be the case throughout at least the first quarter of the year. The 5060 Ti 16GB "is almost done as well," with ASUS stating it no longer plans to produce that model going forward either. Both GPUs are 16GB models, making them more expensive to produce in the current economic climate. And while there might be some hope of the 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB returning later this year, the channel suggests both are unlikely to make a comeback. NVIDIA will reportedly focus on 8GB models like the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti 8GB, with the 12GB 5070 set to stick around for now. The 5080 and 5090 are seemingly safe as well, as more expensive, higher margin models, they offer more space for manufacturers to absorb component price increases.
"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," a NVIDIA spokesperson told Engadget. The company did not say 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB are going out of production. However, it also didn't confirm they're sticking around either. ASUS did not immediately respond to Engadget's comment request.
"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," a NVIDIA spokesperson told Engadget. The company did not say 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB are going out of production. However, it also didn't confirm they're sticking around either. ASUS did not immediately respond to Engadget's comment request.
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Time to solve this like brahs.....nerf guns at 10 paces in their mother's basement.
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That 5060 was supposed to be the lower end (Score:3, Insightful)
This isn't a rich people thing I mean if you're poor yeah you're not going to be building a gaming PC but the 50 60 wasn't supposed to become incredibly expensive and it's
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it's going to wreck PC gaming to have a card like that unobtainable.
It only wrecks PC games that require that level of graphics capability to be fun. It wasn't so long ago that graphics like that were unobtainable at any price, and somehow people still managed to buy and sell video games and have fun playing them.
Re:That 5060 was supposed to be the lower end (Score:5, Interesting)
We stopped it in my neck of the woods. A large Amazon datacenter was just denied rezoning. It didn't hurt that they tried to strongarm a 50-year tax abatement and shrugged when people asked about water and power usage. 600 people showed up to the county board meeting - a record by far.
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just as modern games increasingly demand more than 8GB.
I'm waiting for the release of Call of Duty AI-proof Edition. Runs on a Voodoo3 with 8MB RAM.
I own a 5070ti; It really is the RAM (Score:4, Interesting)
If you look at the actual hardware specs for the unit it's actually pretty powerful, but all the other cards that are currently working just fine have a lot of the same Blackwell architecture, just less of the cores activated. It's all arbitrary. Many of the cores that are not activated on these systems could actually be enabled and make the card faster and perform better but they just decided not to because arbitrary limits let them make money by selling access past the gate they built and closed in your face.
The real issue is the RAM, they are literally just cutting these cards in half so they can instead of building a single 500ti, they're going to build two 5060's. That's it.
They're literally cannibalizing one product SKU in order to build more of a lesser product SKU that they can then sell to make more profit margin, Even though the SKU that they are destroying and ending is actually more powerful and more capable and gives customers more abilities...which incidentally is why they're removing it because with only 8 gigabytes of RAM you're not going to be able to run an LLM and this is how they're going to differentiate the common peon class versus the elite. It was all in the things Jeff Bezos said, This is nothing less than a grab for power and to keep you a user of the system not an admin.
Aka, This is just blatant greed, And in a realistic attempt to simply segregate and divide us, And there really needs to be an activist investor who realizes that this means they're losing money who has the power to fix this but I don't think anyone with that kind of power actually cares.
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https://www.statista.com/chart... [statista.com]
Follow The ....Mist? (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me see if I've got the basis of this "shortage" right.
Sam Altman, using money he doesn't have, bought up almost 50% of DRAM wafers that don't exist, to turn into DRAM chips that don't exist (or maybe not; maybe he's just playing keep-away from his competitors), to put alongside GPU chips that don't exist, to stuff into server farms that don't exist, which will consume vast quantities of electricity that doesn't exist -- all to create "artificial intelligence" ....which doesn't exist.
How is this not a colossal scam?
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I'd not thought about it like that, but it seems you're right on it.
A handful of assholes are basically driving up the costs of ALL ELECTRONICS so they can turn useful electricity into heat, incredibly inefficiently, with the side effect of lowering the signal-to-noise ratio of basically everything through the tsunami of AI slop.
Fuck these AI billionaire bros right in the ear.
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This is as much scam as any other futures.
Next card will be AMD (Score:2)
An OS migration on the consumer side also means a manufacturer migration to things that support the new target. Yep, only 3% of the market and I doubt NVidia's board would quake in their boots if they