Hardware Unboxed, citing conversations they had with retailers and AIB partners, say that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti GPU is dead. These conversations were held following this month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Asus was very direct with their statements to Hardware Unboxed. The 5070 Ti has been placed into "end-of-life" status at Asus due to a near complete lack of supply. Asus has no plans to produce more RTX 5070 Ti cards and whatever is left on the store shelves is all that there will be.
Other companies were a bit less direct than Asus when it comes to the fate of the 5070 Ti. Though coming up short of saying that the 5070 Ti is "end-of-life," they at least state that they have next to no supply of the RTX 5070 Ti.
Hardware Unboxed also says that the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has been "significantly reduced to the point of being discontinued." Asus says that these cards are also effectively end-of-life. Retailers are unable to purchase this card from Asus or other board partners.
As it stands, the only cards that retailers are able to purchase in reasonable quantities are 8GB models of Nvidia GPUs. Specifically, these include the Nvidia RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models. The RTX 5070 supply is also dwindling but has not officially reached the "end-of-life" status that the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti models are at.
Today's news from Hardware Unboxed aligns perfectly with a report from December 17, 2025 that said Nvidia would cut gaming GPU production by up to 40% in 2026. The reduction in GPU production is directly related to the memory supply shortage the world has been going through for several months now, and will continue to go through for the foreseeable future.
We can all thank companies, including Nvidia themselves, for making the memory shortage problem even worse. At CES, Nvidia revealed their new Vera Rubin server tech. Nvidia shared that their Vera Rubin NVL72 server rack will include 72 Nvidia Rubin GPUs and 36 Nvidia Vera CPUs. Each of these server racks will include 20.7 TB of GPU memory (288 GB per Rubin GPU) in addition to 54 TB of LPDDR5X CPU memory. Nvidia partners, such as Palantir, will surely put this technology to good use.
AMD is no better on this front either. During their own CES showcase, AMD brought out Michael Kratsios, the US president's science and technology advisor. On stage, Kratsios talked about how AMD was helping the United States to "win" a mythical AI race by way of the Genesis Mission. This being a public-private partnership that "aims to use AI for scientific discoveries." Of course, neither Kratsios nor AMD said what any of these discoveries were or what the AI race actually entails. Kratsios is also one of the driving forces behind a federal push to block state-level regulations of AI data centers.
Many of these tech companies have shifted away from consumer goods and are instead prioritizing hardware that will be utilized in AI data centers. Consumer RAM, GPUs, phones, SSDs, and the like will continue to be in short supply with astronomical prices for a long, long time.
