Asus is killing off the RTX 5070 Ti in accordance with contemporary report… the primary casualty of the reminiscence disaster within the GPU world?
A brand new video from {Hardware} Unboxed has simply been launched claiming that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is successfully finish of life from right here on out. It cites conversations it is had with retailers and AIBs in regards to the playing cards post-CES the place each principally say that the RTX 5070 Ti playing cards which can be out on the cabinets proper now are your lot. That is it. Provide useless. No extra coming.
Different producers have been much less to-the-point about it, whereas nonetheless noting they’ve just about zero provide of the RTX 5070 Ti. For what it is price, this appears to be information to the Asus contacts I’ve spoken to, who definitely would not have a particular be aware in regards to the card’s EoL standing from HQ in Taiwan proper now.
However after all, after all it is all about the reminiscence disaster, the place AI infrastructure calls for have put large pressure on the availability of reminiscence for knowledge centres and has subsequently had a huge effect on the costs of not simply DRAM, but in addition NAND for SSDs, and crucially right here VRAM for graphics playing cards.
And it makes absolute sense for the RTX 5070 Ti to be one of many tragic casualties of the RAMpocalypse on the GPU facet. For one factor, it is sporting 16 GB of costly GDDR7 reminiscence, however the principle motive is that it is utilizing the identical GB203 GPU that goes into the RTX 5080 card.
That has the identical reminiscence footprint, however proper now could be retailing for effectively over $1,200 at its most cost-effective. Whereas you are going to battle to get one of many few RTX 5070 Ti playing cards nonetheless out in retail for below $800 right this moment, that is a giant fiscal delta that retailers, AIBs, and sure, Nvidia, are all going to need to money in on. So yeah, in a time of constrained provide you’d at all times need to push all of your obtainable sources in the direction of your pricier prospect.
And hell, with the RTX 5080 going up to now above its MSRP why would not you in any other case purchase an RTX 5070 Ti? In my very own testing, the cardboard overclocks like a champ (sure, it is a factor once more) and with out placing any undue pressure on both the cooling or the ability calls for you’ll be able to simply get inside a single digit share efficiency distinction between it and the RTX 5080.
It is the good alternative for players, which is why it will be the good alternative for retailers/producers to kill.
Though not explicitly acknowledged as being EoL, the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB model can be mentioned to be unlikely to see extra manufacturing going ahead, a minimum of not with the reminiscence costs being what they’re. That leaves us with a bunch of 8 GB graphics playing cards for the remainder of 2025 from Nvidia, with the 12 GB RTX 5070 doubtlessly remaining as the one vaguely ‘correct’ mid-range GeForce GPU that’s in any method attainable. At $540 that also would not really feel nice, although.
What of AMD in all this? In spite of everything, three of its 4 RDNA 4 playing cards include 16 GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, so is it feeling the pinch, too? Reportedly, there isn’t any such issues round end-of-life standing for both the RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT playing cards, and with a ton of inventory round for the 16 GB RX 9060 XT that does not appear to be a difficulty.
However, whereas AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have actually clawed into the market share of the beforehand dominant participant in Intel, the Radeon GPUs have barely made any inroads into Nvidia’s place on the head of the graphics card desk. Retailers do not shift the identical numbers of AMD GPUs because it does Nvidia, and so there’s nonetheless comparatively first rate inventory for the RDNA 4 playing cards.
That may be nice if the chance to spike costs wasn’t being taken on their behalf, too, however that vaguely illusory $599 MSRP for the RX 9070 XT now interprets into $700 at greatest. Nonetheless, the wonderful AMD GPU might be utterly unchallenged at that worth level if/when the RTX 5070 Ti disappears from the cabinets.
Although whether or not AMD would be capable to sustain with a run on its 16 GB playing cards when it comes to manufacturing, sating instantly larger demand, will solely be one thing we’ll know ought to it come to go. However with players doubtlessly eschewing the one 8 GB choices on provide from Nvidia, I can see lots of people being mighty tempted by what RDNA 4 can provide.
I’ve reached out to numerous AIBs to see if I can corroborate what HUB is suggesting myself and can replace as soon as I get any responses.
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