The portal Videocardz, citing sources from the Board Channels forum, revealed NVIDIA's internal priority scheme for distributing GeForce RTX 50 series video cards. According to the information, the company has optimized the lineup to focus resources on models with less video memory, as well as on the most profitable solutions in each class.
This means that priorities are now distributed not by graphics processor models, but by memory volume. This scheme explains the recent reports of the discontinuation of the RTX 5070 Ti and the reduction in the production of the RTX 5060 Ti with 16 GB of video memory — both models use the same amount of memory as the more profitable RTX 5080, which is now given preference.
Similarly, in the 8 GB category, NVIDIA is betting on the RTX 5060 Ti, while the release of the RTX 5060 with the same amount of video memory will receive a secondary priority. At the same time, in the case of the RTX 5060, it is not a question of stopping production: NVIDIA, on the contrary, intends to increase the production of video cards with 8 GB of memory in order to saturate the mass market.
The change of priorities and the reduction of the lineup, according to NVIDIA, should simplify supply chains and partially compensate for the shortage without compromising the profitability of the series. As a result, the most priority RTX 50 models remain the RTX 5060 Ti with 8 GB of memory, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. As for the RTX 5070, its future remains uncertain — there is no information on it.