Asus now claims it’s not dropping the RTX 5070 Ti amid memory shortages
TL;DR
Asus retracts earlier claims of discontinuing the RTX 5070 Ti, stating it has no plans to stop sales and blaming misinformation from its PR team.
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and blaming "incomplete information" from its own Asus PR representatives.
"The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL)," says an Asus statement. "Asus has no plans to stop selling these models."
That's quite the opposite of what Asus told Hardware Unboxed, with the YouTube channel reporting that Asus "explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as s …