Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti as the memory shortage squeezes supply

On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down accumulation of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, 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.” They added that the aforesaid applies to Asus’s 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and mentioned really retailers successful Australia person had problem sourcing the product.

Nvidia’s head of world nationalist relations for GeForce, Ben Berraondo, confirmed successful a connection to The Verge that it’s still producing these GPUs: “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and representation proviso is constrained. We proceed to vessel each GeForce SKUs and are moving intimately pinch our suppliers to maximize representation availability.”

Hardware Unboxed specified in a follow-up post that this only applies to Asus, and added, “Whether aliases not AIBs really person capable proviso to warrant continued accumulation is different question. Asus don’t look to deliberation so.” Asus did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from The Verge.

This whitethorn not beryllium the lawsuit for each manufacturers. For instance, PNY nationalist relations typical Michael Farino confirmed to The Verge that the Dual-Slot Slim (DSS) RTX 5070 Ti, which was conscionable announced astatine CES, is still connected way to “start shipping [in] February, and will beryllium astatine each the accustomed unit suspects,” including Best Buy, Micro Center, and Amazon.

Unfortunately, it’s not astonishing to spot constraints hitting the much affordable versions of 50-series GPUs first. Christopher Moore, Micron’s VP of marketing, mobile and customer business unit, said to Wccftech past week that “What we’re doing now is trying to tally arsenic fewer pieces of silicon arsenic imaginable to max out, fewer differentiated DIDs arsenic imaginable to max retired the output… We’re saying, you know, I cognize you utilized to wanna spell from 12 gigabyte to 16 gigabyte, aliases 16 gigabyte to 24 gigabyte. Those changes really driblet our output. So we’re moving pinch them to effort and get our request arsenic dependable arsenic imaginable truthful that we tin get our proviso arsenic dependable arsenic imaginable and maximize the output.”