ASUS has ceased production of NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics cards due to a memory supply shortage, placing the RTX 5070 Ti into end-of-life status, as reported by YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed.
Hardware Unboxed detailed in its latest video that ASUS explicitly informed the channel of the RTX 5070 Ti’s supply shortage. The company stated the model is currently facing this issue, leading to its placement into end-of-life status, with no further production planned. This decision affects ASUS’s own RTX 5070 Ti products, such as the Prime and TUF Gaming variants.
Australian retailers confirmed to Hardware Unboxed that the RTX 5070 Ti is no longer available from partners and distributors. They anticipate this unavailability will persist through at least the first quarter of the year. Similarly, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB model is almost depleted, and ASUS has announced it will discontinue production of that variant as well.
Both affected GPUs feature 16GB of memory, which increases manufacturing costs amid the prevailing economic conditions for such components. Hardware Unboxed noted a possibility that these models, including the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, might return later in the year, though the channel indicated such a development appears unlikely.
Following the video’s release, Hardware Unboxed issued a clarification. It specified that ASUS did not claim NVIDIA discontinued the RTX 5070 Ti. Instead, ASUS reported very limited supply, prompting the end-of-life status for its specific products. Retailers’ inability to obtain RTX 5070 Ti stock-keeping units from any add-in-board partners renders the product effectively unavailable.
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