Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti vanishes in seconds as supply woes continue

[Daniel Sims]

Facepalm: After Nvidia's RTX 5090 and 5080 faced immediate shortages, consumers hoped that the company's new mid-range graphics cards would at least stay in stock for more than a millisecond. Unfortunately, the RTX 5070 Ti sold out just as quickly, and reports suggest that the RTX 5070 and 5060 may face similar supply issues.

As the RTX 5070 Ti officially "launched" on February 20, screenshots of storefronts revealed just how quickly every model sold out.

Screenshots of Newegg's front page, taken just minutes after the 5070 Ti went on sale, show every model out of stock – including those priced $200 above the GPU's $749 MSRP. Our review of the 5070 Ti concluded that if customers can't find it at MSRP, they might as well have bought a 4070 Ti two years ago, as its successor offers only marginal improvements.

Amazon and Micro Center also sold out of their online stock almost immediately. However, as of this writing, the Micro Center in Fairfax, Virginia, still has a few units available for those nearby.

The $549 RTX 5070 and the more affordable RTX 5060 might have better availability, but prospective buyers should still be prepared to refresh online listings frequently and possibly wait a few weeks for stock to improve. Supply chain sources recently told Taiwan-based Commercial Times that performance issues delayed the manufacturing schedule for Nvidia's upcoming GPUs, which may remain scarce until at least mid-March.

Additionally, the January 23 earthquake – damaging thousands of wafers – reportedly impacted Nvidia's semiconductor supply for the RTX 50 series.

Although the RTX 5070 Ti features a cut-down version of the 5080's GB203 GPU, the RTX 5070 utilizes the full die of the lower-tier GB205 processor. Its specifications resemble those of the RTX 4070, including the same disappointing 12GB VRAM capacity. However, it benefits from faster GDDR7 memory, fourth-generation Tensor cores, fifth-generation RT cores, and a 50W power increase. Details on the RTX 5060 are scarce, and even less is known about the 5060 Ti.

Meanwhile, AMD may offer serious competition as early as March with the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. Pricing, specs, and release dates remain unclear, but early benchmarks suggest they could rival the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti.

Laptops featuring AMD's RX 9000 series GPUs won't launch anytime soon, but Acer and other manufacturers plan to release gaming notebooks with RTX 50 series GPUs in the coming weeks.

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Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti vanishes in seconds as supply woes continue

 

[redgarl]

Here is the worst part... those units at MSRPs are only for the launch day.

Nvidia even forced Asus to drop the price of the TUF model to MSRP for the launch.

 

[noel24]

Gen 50 is obviously a scam by nVidia. I don't have much hope for AMD, or Intel, as They are also dependant on TSMC and basically the same suppliers for other components, plus the same Wall Street pressure.
As brutal as It sounds, the only hope is that those pesky Chinese will improve Their drivers and create competition, at least in Asia, and force rethinking of long time strategy by TSMC/nVidia/AMD.

In the meantime, enjoy Your old GPU, as It is still relevant for the time being, as there is no competition from a new generation, and game devs HAVE to acknowledge this or eventually face growing number of financial failures from their unoptimised games.

 

[themastergoose]

The cynical side of me suspects selling the 5070Ti at £1000 was the intention all along.

It’s now conveniently being sold everywhere at the MSRP of the 5080, which also isn’t available anywhere for under £2000. Suspiciously, that’s also the MSRP of the 5090, which isn’t available less than £4000.

Planned? Most likely given every product has moved up a tier pricing wise…

 

[Kotters]

People will do anything to avoid buying AMD.

 

[Revolution 11]

People will do anything to avoid buying AMD.

Don't worry, AMD does its part to avoid selling its GPUs to people.

 

[Kotters]

Don't worry, AMD does its part to avoid selling its GPUs to people.

It's okay, nobody was ever actually going to buy them anyway.

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

Disgraceful end of a 2080Ti story
though the first steps at trying “how much can we shove down their throats” were at the times of first gtx titan and 8800 ultra…

 

[BogdanR]

At least snake oil salesmen had the actual product…

 

[brucek]

I'm hearing this all described as some genius level profit maximization technique, but I can't wrap my head around how this beats any other more traditional or straightforward business model.

The bottom line is they appear to have a superior product that certain customers want, at least at these very small volumes. It was always going to sell for the price it's worth to those customers. They don't need to do a bunch of headfakes, nor cede a lot of profits to scalpers, to capture the value they've created.

Maybe they're slapping themselves on the back over there, but I feel like all they are accomplishing is making the money they always would have, while also attaching the stink of an unsavory purchase process (like used cars, insurance, etc.) to it. It may have minimal ramifications now but people will remember in the future when they have a choice of equivalent products from multiple brands.

Also, the R&D and other launch costs for these models are not trivial, and maximizing unit price on small volumes doesn't seem like the best way to recoup those costs either. It feels like they are training customers, and game devs, to expect longer upgrade cycles and smaller performance boosts.

 

[BogdanR]

Also, the R&D and other launch costs for these models are not trivial, and maximizing unit price on small volumes doesn't seem like the best way to recoup those costs either. It feels like they are training customers, and game devs, to expect longer upgrade cycles and smaller performance boosts.

By R&D and launch costs you actually mean the cost of Mr. Jensen Huang leather jacket, right?

 

[GABulldog]

Soon they'll be coming out with a new graphics card and discontinuing the 5070 before the supply chain issues have been fixed.

 

[jbc029]

Gee. It's part of the same die as the 5080. They have practically none of those. Why on earth would anyone think they'd have these?

 

[themastergoose]

Gee. It's part of the same die as the 5080. They have practically none of those. Why on earth would anyone think they'd have these?

Because the 5070 will be defective silicone that didn't make the grade for a fully functioning chip. They will have more 5070 level chips than 5080's as an entire wafer is never 100% perfect.

 

[toooooot]

The cynical side of me suspects selling the 5070Ti at £1000 was the intention all along.

It’s now conveniently being sold everywhere at the MSRP of the 5080, which also isn’t available anywhere for under £2000. Suspiciously, that’s also the MSRP of the 5090, which isn’t available less than £4000.

Planned? Most likely given every product has moved up a tier pricing wise…

Idk, I am having doubts now. There is a news about defective chips at Nvidia. They might have dealt with these problems for months, releasing this gen noticeably later than usual 2 years.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

I'm hearing this all described as some genius level profit maximization technique, but I can't wrap my head around how this beats any other more traditional or straightforward business model.

The bottom line is they appear to have a superior product that certain customers want, at least at these very small volumes. It was always going to sell for the price it's worth to those customers. They don't need to do a bunch of headfakes, nor cede a lot of profits to scalpers, to capture the value they've created.

Maybe they're slapping themselves on the back over there, but I feel like all they are accomplishing is making the money they always would have, while also attaching the stink of an unsavory purchase process (like used cars, insurance, etc.) to it. It may have minimal ramifications now but people will remember in the future when they have a choice of equivalent products from multiple brands.

Also, the R&D and other launch costs for these models are not trivial, and maximizing unit price on small volumes doesn't seem like the best way to recoup those costs either. It feels like they are training customers, and game devs, to expect longer upgrade cycles and smaller performance boosts.

You seem not to understand that Nvidia faces a supply constraint. TSMC can't make enough chips. So they can sell AI chips for $10,000+ or GPUs for much less.

The only thing keeping them in the GPU game is the fact that the AI hype could end and if they totally exited the GPU market that would leave them nothing to fall back on. So they want to sell just enough GPUs to stay in the game until new fabs being built help supply catch up to demand or AI demand drops enough that current supply can fill AI and gamer needs.

 

[ArmorJr]

Wow they sold out 50-100GPUs in Country of ca 350mil people...

 

[OortCloud]

Sh1t card at a sh1t price even at RRP, let alone the $200+ retailers and OEMs are tacking on to the price of pretty much all 37 cards nvidious have managed to make. Just ignore it people, it's not worth the fuss- it'll probably melt or burn your house down like the rest of the 50 series too.

 

[Eldrach]

Because the 5070 will be defective silicone that didn't make the grade for a fully functioning chip. They will have more 5070 level chips than 5080's as an entire wafer is never 100% perfect.

Not true - the 5070 uses a different chip altogether. The 5070ti though is a cut down version of the 5080 and most likely uses chips that aren’t stable enough for the 5080 spec.
When it comes to stock - the 5070ti remained in stock for almost 3 hours in Norway at around 800 usd for the cheapest model - so I assume that the first restock of those will last longer aswell.

 

[themastergoose]

Not true - the 5070 uses a different chip altogether. The 5070ti though is a cut down version of the 5080 and most likely uses chips that aren’t stable enough for the 5080 spec.
When it comes to stock - the 5070ti remained in stock for almost 3 hours in Norway at around 800 usd for the cheapest model - so I assume that the first restock of those will last longer aswell.

Jeez... So I post saying they'll have more 5070 class chips as they're failed silicone from fully enabled chips that are not perfect perfect. You say that's wrong and then explain the exact same thing.

I tell you what, lets just use it's correct term shall we: binning.

Does that make you feel better?