Scalpers made an official comeback with the launch of the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080, NVIDIA’s latest flagship playing cards. Now, it seems like provide for the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti is likely to be equally dire.

Demand for the RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 5070 is anticipated to surpass provide once more, resulting in a scarcity scenario. That is already manifesting itself in retail costs, as some RTX 5070 Ti fashions at retailers like Greatest Purchase have an MSRP of as much as $900, simply $100 shy of the RTX 5080 Founders Version’ retail value. It ought to be famous that the RTX 5080 and 5090 collection playing cards already noticed value hikes as effectively. These increased costs are additionally partly the fault of the specter of tariffs by the Trump administration, in addition to different elements, however the increased demand undoubtedly performs a serious position.

Retail sources are additionally hinting that offer for the 5070 Ti is likely to be about the identical as that for the RTX 5080 and 5090. The RTX 5070 Ti is popping out this Thursday beginning at $749 (once more, you could possibly see retail costs as excessive as $900), and the non-Ti RTX 5070 is not popping out till March fifth. A lot of the stories we’re seeing are associated to the RTX 5070 Ti particularly, however at this level it is protected to imagine that the non-Ti mannequin will endure from availability points as effectively.

This is not precisely coming as a shock. If NVIDIA is struggling to maintain up with demand for the costlier batch of playing cards, it is a on condition that the cheaper fashions (which can virtually actually see much more demand) will wrestle too. There’s a silver lining right here. A few of NVIDIA’s knowledge middle GPUs are promoting worse than anticipated, so TSMC is reportedly repurposing extra yields for these GPUs into RTX 5000-series playing cards. These wafers match the RTX 5090, so it would not matter a lot for the lower-end playing cards. However we have to begin someplace.

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