GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs Are Still In Stock Amid Rumors Of A Production Pause

A shortage of memory chips caused by a surge in demand in the data center to fuel artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is wreaking havoc on the consumer market, and especially in the realm of home computers where DDR5 DRAM kits have shot up in price. The ramifications run even deeper than overpriced DRAM, however, and could impact the availability of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards equipped with 16GB of VRAM.

As you may recall, NVIDIA launched two versions of its mid-range GeForce RTX 5060 Ti based on Blackwell, one with 8GB of GDDR7 and one with 16GB of GDDR7, both of which are linked to a 128-bit bus for up to around 448GB/s of memory bandwidth. To cope with the sudden spike in demand for memory chips, rumor has it NVIDIA may hit pause on the latter variant.

"Due to the significant increase in memory chip prices, the ...