According to a new report from Hardware Unboxed, NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti has reached the end of its production line — at least for ASUS. In a recent video, the popular tech channel claimed to have spoken with retailers and AIB partners shortly after CES, receiving a clear message: the RTX 5070 Ti units currently on store shelves will be the last available.
ASUS reportedly confirmed to Hardware Unboxed that it has marked the RTX 5070 Ti as end-of-life (EoL) due to what it described as a “catastrophically low supply.” The company is facing such limited availability that continuing production has become unsustainable.
Official Confirmation Still Pending
Despite these reports, ASUS has not yet issued an official global statement about the halt in production. Some internal sources have indicated that no formal communication has been received from the company’s Taiwan headquarters.
Nevertheless, the situation seems entirely plausible given the current memory crisis affecting the hardware industry. The so-called “RAMpocalypse” stems from the surging demand for memory components used in AI infrastructure and data centers. This has severely impacted the availability of DRAM, NAND, and especially VRAM used in graphics cards.
The RTX 5070 Ti has been particularly affected because it uses 16 GB of GDDR7 memory — a costly and hard-to-find component — and shares the same GB203 chip as the more expensive RTX 5080.
From an economic standpoint, ASUS’s decision makes sense. The RTX 5080 retails for well over $1,200, while the RTX 5070 Ti, despite being difficult to find below $800, delivers performance surprisingly close to its higher-end sibling.
In performance tests, the 5070 Ti proved to be highly overclockable, often achieving results within a few percentage points of the RTX 5080, while consuming less power and generating less heat. This made it a smart buy for gamers — but a less profitable product for manufacturers and retailers, especially in times of limited resources.
The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB could face a similar fate if supply issues persist.
An update from leaker @Zed__Wang suggests that NVIDIA has reduced GPU shipments for the RTX 50 series by 15–20% across all models. Despite the reduced supply, NVIDIA continues to deliver GPUs alongside VRAM chips, likely because discontinuing models like the RTX 5070 Ti has eased some pressure on memory availability.
The report also hints that NVIDIA may delay or even cancel the RTX 50 SUPER series, which was expected to feature 3 GB GDDR7 modules — components that are currently very difficult to source in large quantities.
