ASUS has stopped producing the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB, saying they’ve reached ‘finish of life’

YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB because of the ongoing reminiscence crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “explicitly” advised it the RTX 5070 Ti is “at present going through a provide scarcity.” Because of this, the corporate has “positioned the mannequin into finish of life standing,” and not plans to supply it.

{Hardware} Unboxed additionally spoke to retailers in Australia, who advised the channel the 5070 Ti is “not out there to buy from companions and distributors,” including they count on that to be the case all through at the very least the primary quarter of the 12 months. The 5060 Ti 16GB “is nearly accomplished as nicely,” with ASUS stating it not plans to supply that mannequin going ahead both. Each GPUs are 16GB fashions, making them costlier to fabricate within the present financial local weather. And whereas there is perhaps some hope of the 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB returning later this 12 months, the channel suggests each are unlikely to make a comeback.

“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,” a NVIDIA spokesperson advised Engadget. ASUS didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s remark request.

After importing its video, {Hardware} Unboxed printed a clarification. “ASUS didn’t inform us that NVIDIA mentioned the RTX 5070 Ti has been discontinued. ASUS advised us there’s little or no provide of the 5070 Ti, so their very own 5070 Ti merchandise (e.g, the Prime and TUF Gaming) have been put into finish of life standing,” the channel said. “With retailers additionally unable to supply 5070 Ti SKUs from any AIB, this successfully makes it a useless product.”

The AI growth has created an insatiable demand for RAM and different pc parts from information heart infrastructure corporations. In response, many reminiscence producers have shifted their manufacturing strains to deal with excessive bandwidth reminiscence for these purchasers on the expense of their common choices, resulting in dramatically elevated costs amongst client RAM kits, GPUs and SSDs. In December, Micron Expertise introduced it could wind down its consumer-facing Crucial brand to focus solely on offering parts to the AI trade.

ASUS is the primary of NVIDIA’s add-in board (AIB) companions to touch upon the reminiscence crunch. AIBs are the businesses that produce nearly all of GPUs you should purchase from NVIDIA and AMD. Traditionally, NVIDIA has offered its board companions with each the die and reminiscence wanted to make a graphics playing cards. Nevertheless, a recent rumor advised the corporate had advised it companions they would wish to begin sourcing reminiscence on their very own.

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