ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB (engadget.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/15/2126254/asus-stops-producing-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-and-5060-ti-16gb
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/asus-has-stopped-producing-the-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-and-5060-ti-16gb-saying-theyve-reached-end-of-life-162012253.html
> Hardware Unboxed also spoke to retailers in Australia, who told the channel the 5070 Ti is "no longer available to purchase from partners and distributors," adding they expect that to be the case throughout at least the first quarter of the year. The 5060 Ti 16GB "is almost done as well," with ASUS stating it no longer plans to produce that model going forward either. Both GPUs are 16GB models, making them more expensive to produce in the current economic climate. And while there might be some hope of the 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB returning later this year, the channel suggests both are unlikely to make a comeback. NVIDIA will reportedly focus on 8GB models like the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti 8GB, with the 12GB 5070 set to stick around for now. The 5080 and 5090 are seemingly safe as well, as more expensive, higher margin models, they offer more space for manufacturers to absorb component price increases.
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> "Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability," a NVIDIA spokesperson told Engadget. The company did not say 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB are going out of production. However, it also didn't confirm they're sticking around either. ASUS did not immediately respond to Engadget's comment request.
[1] https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/asus-has-stopped-producing-the-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-and-5060-ti-16gb-saying-theyve-reached-end-of-life-162012253.html
[2] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/29/0629207/how-bad-will-ram-and-memory-shortages-get
[3] https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE
I own a 5070ti; It really is the RAM (Score:2, Informative)
If you look at the actual hardware specs for the unit it's actually pretty powerful, but all the other cards that are currently working just fine have a lot of the same Blackwell architecture, just less of the cores activated. It's all arbitrary. Many of the cores that are not activated on these systems could actually be enabled and make the card faster and perform better but they just decided not to because arbitrary limits let them make money by selling access past the gate they built and closed in your
Follow The ....Mist? (Score:3)
Let me see if I've got the basis of this "shortage" right.
Sam Altman, using money he doesn't have, bought up almost 50% of DRAM wafers that don't exist, to turn into DRAM chips that don't exist (or maybe not; maybe he's just playing keep-away from his competitors), to put alongside GPU chips that don't exist, to stuff into server farms that don't exist, which will consume vast quantities of electricity that doesn't exist -- all to create "artificial intelligence" ....which doesn't exist.
How is this not a colossal scam?
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Time to solve this like brahs.....nerf guns at 10 paces in their mother's basement.
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the 5060ti 16gb wasnt too expensive, I bought one before the industry started to devour itself for $300
That 5060 was supposed to be the lower end (Score:2, Insightful)
Of the mid-range. Because of poor optimization you basically need 16 gigs of video RAM for a lot of games if you don't want frequent stuttering. That's because the consoles have 16 gigs of unified RAM total and publishers didn't want to have to pay to have the optimizations done needed to shuffle textures in and out of your system ram.
This isn't a rich people thing I mean if you're poor yeah you're not going to be building a gaming PC but the 50 60 wasn't supposed to become incredibly expensive and it's
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> it's going to wreck PC gaming to have a card like that unobtainable.
It only wrecks PC games that require that level of graphics capability to be fun. It wasn't so long ago that graphics like that were unobtainable at any price, and somehow people still managed to buy and sell video games and have fun playing them.
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We stopped it in my neck of the woods. A large Amazon datacenter was just denied rezoning. It didn't hurt that they tried to strongarm a 50-year tax abatement and shrugged when people asked about water and power usage. 600 people showed up to the county board meeting - a record by far.