Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti because the reminiscence scarcity squeezes provide

On Thursday, {Hardware} Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down manufacturing of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus “explicitly informed us this mannequin is presently dealing with a provide scarcity and, as such, they’ve positioned the mannequin into end-of-life standing.” They added that the identical applies to Asus’s 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and talked about how retailers in Australia have had hassle sourcing the product.

Nvidia’s director of world public relations for GeForce, Ben Berraondo, confirmed in a press release to The Verge that it’s nonetheless producing these GPUs: “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is robust, and reminiscence provide is constrained. We proceed to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working carefully with our suppliers to maximise reminiscence availability.”

{Hardware} Unboxed specified in a follow-up put up that this solely applies to Asus, and added, “Whether or not or not AIBs really obtain sufficient provide to justify continued manufacturing is one other query. Asus don’t appear to assume so.” Asus didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Verge.

This will not be the case for all producers. As an example, PNY public relations consultant Michael Farino confirmed to The Verge that the Twin-Slot Slim (DSS) RTX 5070 Ti, which was simply introduced at CES, remains to be on observe to “begin transport [in] February, and might be in any respect the standard retail suspects,” together with Finest Purchase, Micro Heart, and Amazon.

Sadly, it’s not stunning to see constraints hitting the extra reasonably priced variations of 50-series GPUs first. Christopher Moore, Micron’s VP of promoting, cell and consumer enterprise unit, mentioned to Wccftech final week that “What we’re doing now’s making an attempt to run as few items of silicon as doable to max out, few differentiated DIDs as doable to max out the output… We’re saying, you recognize, I do know you used to wanna go from 12 gigabyte to 16 gigabyte, or 16 gigabyte to 24 gigabyte. These adjustments really drop our output. So we’re working with them to try to get our demand as regular as doable in order that we will get our provide as regular as doable and maximize the output.”