By Kyle Barr
Publication Date: 2026-01-15 17:55:00
The demand for 4K-ready graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD hasn’t slowed by any measure. Neither have the prices on top-end GPUs. Costs will likely get worse in the new year due to the ongoing memory shortage. One of Nvidia’s leading board partners is reportedly shelving one of the few cards that’s powerful enough for playing at the highest resolutions.
The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU is Nvidia’s gateway for 4K gaming on PC. The GPU has the 16GB of VRAM necessary to support titles at higher resolutions, though normally with the need to fine-tune graphics settings if you also want to push ray tracing for more realistic lighting effects.
The Hardware Unboxed YouTube channel reported that Asus has explicitly said it was placing its add-in-card (AIC) RTX 5070 Ti into end-of-life status. Essentially, whatever existing Asus 5070 Ti GPUs are on store shelves will be the last inventory available, at least for now. That would ostensibly account for both the cards under the TUF Gaming and Prime branding. Gizmodo reached out to Asus for comment, but we did not immediately hear back.
There have been enough rumors floating around about Nvidia GPU scarcity to make any PC gamer wince, though this is the first time we’re hearing from an AIB (add-in-board) partner effectively confirming there’s dwindling inventory. Major memory makers, including Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, have all tuned their operations to producing high-end memory for AI data…
