Asus now claims it’s not dropping the RTX 5070 Ti amid memory shortages

Jan 16, 2026 07:05 PM - 4 months ago 119269

Tom Warren

is a elder editor and writer of Notepad, who has been covering each things Microsoft, PC, and tech for complete 20 years.

The GPU marketplace is turning into a messiness again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down accumulation of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC shaper is now stepping backmost that declare and blaming “incomplete information” from its ain Asus PR representatives.

“The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB person not been discontinued aliases designated arsenic end-of-life (EOL),” says an Asus statement. “Asus has nary plans to extremity trading these models.”

That’s rather the other of what Asus told Hardware Unboxed, pinch the YouTube transmission reporting that Asus “explicitly told america this exemplary is presently facing a proviso shortage and, arsenic such, they person placed the exemplary into end-of-life status.”

Here’s the afloat timeline, from Hardware Unboxed, of really this messiness unfolded:

• We petition RTX 5070 Ti samples from Asus (and different partners)
• An Asus PR rep looks into it, comes backmost and says they cannot supply 5070 Tis owed to proviso constraints, saying their models are “end of life.”
• We inquire Asus to explain whether the RTX 5070 Ti is extremity of life. They corroborate it’s extremity of life.
• We scope retired to retailers to spot whether they tin acquisition RTX 5070 Ti banal for their stores, to truth cheque Asus’ claims. They opportunity location is nary supply.
• Given we person received an connected the grounds connection from Asus and confirmed the proviso constraints pinch retailers, we people a video pinch this information.
• Nvidia says each GeForce SKUs are being shipped.
• Asus reaches retired to explain that Nvidia told Asus that the RTX 5070 Ti is not extremity of life, but that Asus are “streamlining immoderate models.”
• We people that statement.
• Asus reaches retired again to supply different connection (the 3rd connection we’ve received from Asus), now saying the 5070 Ti is not discontinued aliases extremity of life. This straight contradicts the original statement.
• We instantly petition RTX 5070 Ti samples now that the cards are not discontinued aliases extremity of life. We haven’t heard backmost yet.

A world shortage of accepted DRAM and NAND is putting the unit connected RAM and GPU prices, and we’re starting to spot a deficiency of GPU banal aliases higher pricing. Asus blames fluctuations successful proviso for some the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB models owed to the ongoing representation proviso constraints that person affected accumulation output. “As a result, readiness whitethorn look constricted successful definite markets, but this should not beryllium interpreted arsenic a accumulation halt aliases merchandise retirement,” says Asus.

Nvidia told america yesterday that it was still producing RTX 5070 Ti GPUs and continues “to vessel each GeForce SKUs and are moving intimately pinch our suppliers to maximize representation availability.” Just really galore RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB models will beryllium disposable successful the early is anyone’s guess. Perhaps they’ll beryllium arsenic constricted successful the existent world arsenic Nvidia’s ain Founders Edition models, which are very seldom ever successful stock.

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