The far reaching effects of memory shortage is delivering yet another hit among the DIY PC community, as the strained supply has reportedly caused NVIDIA to reduce production on most of its high-end GPUs. The GPU maker is reportedly prioritizing both the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB to maintain supply and market share, as the consumer industry now has to weather through one of the worst component shortages it has ever seen.
RTX 5060 & RTX 5060 Ti 8GB Gets Priority
Why these two cards? Simply put, they feature less memory (both 8GB cards), which means less memory chips required, and that allows more GPU units to be produced with a limited number of modules they currently have (or rather, allocated to the consumer market). As such, any card with a bigger VRAM capacity will see reduced production output, and that basically means all GPUs segmented above these two models, which in turn will cause their prices to spike significantly in the near future.
While NVIDIA is busy selling shovels in the form of datacenter GPUs amongst the AI gold rush, the company not going to give up its extremely tight grip on the consumer GPU market right now, and keeping the GPU output high with as little memory demands as possible will be the ideal strategy for that. That is to say, if the situation is bad enough that even existing high-end RTX 50 GPUs are getting cut from production line, you can pretty much forget about the RTX 50 SUPER series that allegedly promised to deliver +50% VRAM increase over standard counterparts.
As the shortage situation is widely agreed to not significantly improve until 2028, that means any reasonable GPU purchase is most likely going to be an 8GB card, despite just several months earlier where cards like these are universally disliked over ever-increasing VRAM usage by modern-day games. We suppose the only silver lining here is that game developers are going to seriously optimize their games to fit within this limit, but even that is a tall ask when some games just tells you to enable upscaling and frame generation and call it a day.
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