Latest: Asus Is Killing Off The Rtx 5070 Ti According To Fresh Report......

Hardware Unboxed cites conversations it's had with Asus over the EoL status it has applied to the RTX 5070 Ti. What's on the shelves now is all there is.

A new video from Hardware Unboxed has just been released claiming that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is effectively end of life from here on out. It cites conversations it's had with retailers and AIBs about the cards post-CES where both basically say that the RTX 5070 Ti cards that are out on the shelves right now are your lot. That's it. Supply dead. No more coming.

Asus has apparently been explicit about this, stating to HUB that it has placed Asus RTX 5070 Ti cards into end-of-life (EoL) status due to the catastrophically low supply. "This model is currently facing a supply shortage and as such they have placed the model into end-of-life status."

Other manufacturers have been less to-the-point about it, while still noting they have pretty much zero supply of the RTX 5070 Ti. For what it's worth, this seems to be news to the Asus contacts I've spoken to, who certainly do not have a specific note about the card's EoL status from HQ in Taiwan right now.

But of course, of course it's all about the memory crisis, where AI infrastructure demands have put huge strain on the supply of memory for data centres and has subsequently had a huge impact on the prices of not just DRAM, but also NAND for SSDs, and crucially here VRAM for graphics cards.

And it makes absolute sense for the RTX 5070 Ti to be one of the tragic casualties of the RAMpocalypse on the GPU side. For one thing, it's sporting 16 GB of expensive GDDR7 memory, but the main reason is that it's using the same GB203 GPU that goes into the RTX 5080 card.

That has the same memory footprint, but right now is retailing for well over $1,200 at its cheapest. While you're going to struggle to get one of the few RTX 5070 Ti cards still out in retail for under $800 today, that's a big fiscal delta that retailers, AIBs, and yes, Nvidia, are all going to want to cash in on. So yeah, in a time of constrained supply you'd always want to push all your available resources towards your pricier prospect.

And hell, with the RTX 5080 going so far above its MSRP why wouldn't you otherwise buy an RTX 5070 Ti? In my own testing, the card overclocks like a champ (yes, it's a thing again) and without putting any undue strain on either the cooling or the power demands you can easily get within a single digit percentage performance difference between it and the RTX 5080.

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Source: PC Gamer