Overview
- Forum leaks relayed by benchlife.info and other outlets say Nvidia plans to ship about 30–40% fewer GeForce RTX 50‑series chips in the first half of 2026 than a year earlier, a claim the company has not confirmed.
- The reductions reportedly center on the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and the 16 GB GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, models where VRAM represents a larger share of total cost and margins are thinner.
- Sources tie the planned pullback to scarce GDDR7 and surging memory prices after a broader run‑up in DRAM costs through late 2025.
- Nvidia is also said to be weighing an end to bundling GPUs with GDDR7 for board partners, a shift that would push memory procurement risk onto add‑in‑card makers, particularly smaller brands.
- Retailers have not seen broad GeForce shortages yet, with any supply or price effects likely to appear after long production lead times, while industry contacts also point to roughly 10% price pressure on Radeon cards, already visible on the RX 9060 XT.