What Is Going On With The RTX 5070 Ti?
Rumors have been flying that Asus had quietly killed off its Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards, marking them as end of life and effectively pulling them from the market. Those reports came from a Hardware Unboxed video which stated that Asus representatives had confirmed the RTX 5070 Ti was now end of life due to supply problems.
That sounded serious. End of life is the kind of label you expect when a product is genuinely being retired, not just temporarily hard to find. For PC gamers and builders, it raised a big red flag, especially since the RTX 5070 Ti is a key card in Nvidia's current lineup.
Asus has now stepped in with an official statement to shut this down. According to the company, neither the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti nor the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB has been discontinued or designated as end of life. Asus says it has no plans to stop selling these GPUs.
So why do they feel almost impossible to buy at a reasonable price in many regions? The answer, as usual in the GPU world, comes down to memory supply and manufacturing priorities.
Memory Supply Problems And Why Stock Is So Tight
In its statement, Asus explains that current fluctuations in supply for both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB are primarily due to memory supply constraints. In other words, the issue is not that Asus has decided to kill these cards. The problem is that they cannot get enough of the right memory at the right time to consistently manufacture and restock them.
That memory crunch is not just about regular GDDR for gaming GPUs. A lot of manufacturing capacity is currently being pulled into high bandwidth memory and other advanced memory types for data centers and AI workloads. When big cloud and AI players are fighting for the same memory supply, gaming cards often end up taking a back seat.
Asus says these constraints have temporarily affected production output and restocking cycles. This is why availability looks so patchy in certain markets and why prices are drifting up wherever cards do appear. The company stresses that this should not be interpreted as a production halt or a product retirement.
MSI has echoed a similar message. When asked about its own plans, MSI said it has no plan to mark any of its current GPUs as end of life and that its goal is to feed all gamers with all GPUs. That lines up with Asus' clarification and suggests there is no coordinated move among Nvidia partners to abandon this part of the product stack.
However, even if no one is officially killing these cards, shortages still matter in practice. Limited production and stretched restocking cycles mean that for many builders and upgraders, the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB may feel like ghost products for a while.
What This Means For GPU Buyers Right Now
From a lineup perspective, the RTX 5070 Ti is too important to simply vanish without a fight. In the higher end space, Nvidia has the RTX 5090 for those who want the absolute top and are willing to pay for it. At the more sensible high performance level, many gamers are looking at the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti as the sweet spot between cost and power.
The RTX 5080 exists in the middle, but the market reaction suggests it is not the most attractive choice for a lot of buyers. Killing off the RTX 5070 Ti would open a big performance and price gap and leave AMD's RX 9070 XT unchallenged in that segment. That would be a strange move when Nvidia is trying to keep a strong presence across every tier.
For now, Nvidia and its partners seem to be shifting manufacturing priority toward cards like the RTX 5080 and toward data center products that use more advanced memory. That makes business sense but it puts pressure on consumer cards that use the same or similar parts.
Here is how this situation plays out for you as a gamer or PC builder:
- The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB are officially still current products. They are not dead on paper.
- Practical availability is weak and may stay that way for some time due to memory supply issues.
- Prices are likely to stay inflated wherever stock is limited, especially in the DIY market.
- Big system builders may get priority allocation, so you might see these GPUs more often in prebuilt systems than on retail shelves.
Effectively, these cards are not truly end of life but they might feel like it for many DIY buyers. You may have to hunt for stock, tolerate higher prices than you would like, or seriously consider alternatives like the standard RTX 5070 or competing AMD options in the same performance class.
Asus says it will continue to support both the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and is working with partners to stabilize supply as conditions improve. That suggests this is a supply cycle problem, not a strategic exit. However, how long it takes to normalize depends heavily on how quickly memory supply loosens up and whether the ongoing demand from AI and data centers cools down enough to free capacity for gaming GPUs.
In the meantime, if you see a fairly priced RTX 5070 Ti from a reputable seller, it might be worth acting quickly. These cards are not officially gone, but for a while they will remain harder to find than their place in Nvidia's lineup would suggest.
Original article and image: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/asus-and-msi-have-now-both-clarified-the-rtx-5070-ti-hasnt-received-an-end-of-life-status/
