Rather, the company cited supply chain fluctuations for both graphics cards. Among the variety of factors at play, Asus also cited memory supply constraints having affected the production of these GPUs, and as a result, making resupplies more difficult. Support for the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB cards is expected to continue. Asus is working with its manufacturing partners in efforts to stabilize its supply chains.

“The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL). ASUS has no plans to stop selling these models,” said Asus in its press release.

“Current fluctuations in supply for both products are primarily due to memory supply constraints, which have temporarily affected production output and restocking cycles. As a result, availability may appear limited in certain markets, but this should not be interpreted as a production halt or product retirement.”

As for what might have caused many to believe that Asus was halting support for its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB graphics cards, the company noted that “certain media”, referring to YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed, which was originally told by Asus that the GPUs will stop being available, “may have received incomplete information from an Asus PR representative regarding these products.”

The worldwide memory shortage has affected a number of different PC hardware companies, with even Nvidia having addressed the fact that its supply chains for graphics cards have been hit. “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained,” said the company in an earlier statement. “We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working with our suppliers to maximize memory availability.”

As for the cause behind this memory shortage, it largely comes down to suppliers having signed major deals with AI companies like OpenAI to supply them with memory modules. Due to this, various PC components like RAM, NAND-based SSDs, and even some HDDs are facing supply chain issues. As noted in our own feature piece about this shortage, the cost of RAM has spiked up high enough that, when building a new PC, one would have to consider the fact that a significant chunk of the budget will likely go towards getting 32 or 64 GB DDR5 RAM kits. Contrasting this with consoles makes building a new PC in current market conditions an untenable proposition for many.

With no end to this memory shortage in sight for the foreseeable future, things are also looking quite grim for upcoming gaming hardware releases. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, for instance, has noted that the company is paying attention to RAM prices for the time being. Rumours have also indicated that next-generation consoles might get pushed back by a year in hopes of more reasonable memory prices.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is targeted at the entry level market for gaming PCs. When it comes to features, the RTX 5060 is up there with its stronger cousins in the RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. It is built on the same Blackwell RTX architecture as the other GPUs in the line-up, and also includes support for the full suite of DLSS 4 features that made their debut this year, including Multi Frame Generation.

In a chart comparing the new GPU’s performance with similar graphics cards from previous generations, the RTX 5060 Ti comes out as a winner thanks to features like DLSS 4. In a comparison pitting the graphics card against the RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 4060 Ti, the 5060 Ti comes in on top across quite a few games, including Hogwarts Legacy, Black Myth: Wukong, and Cyberpunk 2077. With graphics settings in these games maxed out at 1440p and DLSS set to Quality, the 5060 Ti is able to get around double the frame rate of the 4060 Ti, and almost four times the frame rates of the 3060 Ti.

Nvidia has also announced the GeForce RTX 5060 for release in May. The GPU will be less powerful than its Ti equivalent, but still offers quite a bit of performance across various games. According to Nvidia, demanding titles like Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Outlaws are able to get more than 100 FPS on the upcoming GPU.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti features fourth-generation RT cores offering 72 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations per second), and will be available in 8 GB and 16 GB VRAM variants. Its 8 GB variant is priced at $379, while the 16 GB one will cost $429. Both variants are available now.

The RTX 5060 is priced at $299, and offers 58 TFLOPS of computing power in its RT cores, and will be available with 8 GB of VRAM. All of the new graphics cards also feature support for current hardware technologies, like PCI Express Gen 5.

Earlier this year, Nvidia had first unveiled its RTX 50-series line-up of graphics cards with the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. The highest end graphics card in the line-up, the RTX 5090, is priced at $1,999, and offers 32 GB of VRAM, 1,792 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, 21,760 CUDA cores, 680 fifth-gen Tensor cores, and 170 fourth-gen RT cores.

Along with the new graphics cards, Nvidia had also taken to the stage during CES 2025 to announce the latest version of its DLSS suite of software features. Dubbed DLSS 4, the technology brings with it an upgrade to DLSS 3’s Frame Generation in the form of Multi Frame Generation, which can generate three additional frames for every single frame rendered by the hardware.