GeForce RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 availability to be poor at launch

There have been multiple reports of lacklustre RTX 5070 Ti supply at launch. Initial reviews suggest you shouldn't buy it to begin with, due to its underwhelming generation-over-generation performance uplift and somewhat high price. That leaves us with the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060. A Taiwanese media outlet says you won't be able to buy them at launch, either.

RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 will be hard to come by initially

On paper, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is said to hit shelves on March 5, right around when AMD plans to release the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070. The RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti's launch dates are unknown, but they were rumoured to drop sometime in April. But, you won't be able to but the RTX 5070 Ti until mid-March because of supply issues caused by the recent earthquake in Taiwan, which destroyed a substantial number of wafers. It stands to reason the RTX 5060 (and the RTX 5060 Ti) will also get delayed.

If that wasn't bad enough, some of the chips need to be, "debugged due to performance issues". This sits in line with an earlier report that stated the same reason for Nvidia's RTX 50 series laptop GPUs being delayed. Of the three, the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 will likely suffer due to lack of VRAM. That leaves us with the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti, which might be the only viable GPU for budget gamers this generation. An RTX 5050 desktop seems unlikely at this point, but you can still get it in entry-level laptops.