Rumor claims Nvidia has 'essentially killed off' the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB – possibly leaving AMD free to dominate mid-range GPUs

• Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti has been "essentially killed off" according to a YouTube channel
• The same is true of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, based on chatter on the grapevine from Asus and Australian retailers
• The price of these GPUs has already risen modestly, and we can expect bigger hikes if this rumor is true

Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, as well as the RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB, are seemingly on borrowed time according to a new rumor.

YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed tells us Nvidia has "essentially killed off the RTX 5070 Ti" – even if this isn't officially the case as we've heard nothing from Team Green to that effect – because there's a widespread shortage with this GPU.

In fact, supply of the RTX 5070 Ti is now so thin that we're told Asus has placed the ...