A couple of new reports say that Nvidia may reduce the production of its RTX 50 series GPUs by anywhere from 30% to 40%. The cuts allegedly stem from the shortage of available and affordable memory.
According to Overclock3d, citing Benchlife and BoBantang, Nvidia may cut production of the 50-series GPUs by upwards of 40%. This is more than likely due to the tech giant not being able to source enough GDDR7 VRAM to continue producing graphics cards at its current rate.
The first cards that may be struck by Nvidia are the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and RTX 5070 Ti. This would free up VRAM allocation for Nvidia's more profitable consumer cards such as the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. Beyond that, it would also free up more memory for used with the RTX Pro cards that are aimed at professionals working with 3D modeling, AI training, running simulations, and working with video production.
If this production reduction pans out as reports seem to suggest, prices and availability on a lot of PC hardware is going to be absolutely atrocious for well into 2026. Memory is in an especially dire spot right now and will continue to get worse. We first reported on the increasing memory prices on November 3, 2025. At that time, it was noted that a kit of DDR5-6000 (2x16GB) memory went from $125 in August 2025 up to $225. Now, that same kit is closer to $450.
Similar prices increases can be seen in the other examples cited in our article from November. A kit of DDR5-5600 (2x16GB) went from $110 in September 2025 to $200 in November 2025 and now averages just shy of $400. A kit of DDR4-3600 (2x16GB) went from roughly $80 in May 2025 to $175 in November and is now about $240.
