High Demand, Low Memory Stock Strain Inventory of Some Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs

Stop us if you’ve heard this story before: The AI boom is driving overwhelming demand for memory products, straining the production of PC parts that incorporate memory, like graphics cards. This week, the shortage led to a flurry of updates from Asus and Nvidia, after a small PR mix-up.

If you heard that Nvidia is putting the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB on end-of-life (EOl) status, the good news is that they are still in production. Unfortunately, “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained,” Nvidia told Hardware Unboxed, adding, “We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability.”

Asus also weighed in on the matter, as it appears to have been involved in the communication blip.

“We would like to clarify recent reports regarding the Asus GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB,” Asus wrote in a statement. “Certain media may have received incomplete information from an Asus PR representative regarding these products.”

The statement points directly to memory supply issues as the culprit for “Current fluctuations in supply” and limited card availability, but notes that the cards aren’t EOL.

“Asus has no plans to stop selling these models,” the statement reads.

There’s no doubt that low memory stock is causing headaches for GPU…