NVIDIA reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB shipments to avoid price drops

When NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti last year, before the current memory crisis, it offered two models: one with 16GB of VRAM and one with 8 GB. With the retail and marketing focus on the 16GB model, post-launch reports indicated that the 8GB variant was not selling well. Cut to 2026, and the very real DRAM crisis affecting GPU pricing and availability, and NVIDIA has reportedly shifted its focus to the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB model that consumers have mostly skipped in favor of the 16GB variant.

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This means there are now more GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPUs available than 16GB models, and, according to a new report via Gazlog citing inside sources, NVIDIA has paused supplying GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPUs to its partners. The report notes that this halt in supply will last around two weeks. The reason? Apparently, there's an oversupply.

So yeah, this indicates that GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB graphics cards are still not selling well, and with more stock sitting on shelves, prices are expected to drop. However, with NVIDIA halting supply to normalize stock levels, the belief is that the company is effectively pressing pause on the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB graphics card to avoid price drops and discounts.

There have been several reports in the past of NVIDIA carefully controlling the supply of GeForce RTX graphics cards to maintain prices; however, this case is a little different because it applies to a single model. And a model, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPU, that is widely considered inferior to its 16GB counterpart. Looking at current pricing in the US via Newegg, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPU is still being sold above the original $379 MSRP, but only by about $10, with the retailer noting that these prices are the lowest they've been in 30 days.