- Nvidia has reportedly run into performance problems with chips for its RTX 5070 and 5060
- This has meant that these GPUs have theoretically been delayed by one month
- As a result, the original stock levels of RTX 5070 can be thin on the ground
We hear more rumors of NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 and 5060 GPUs that are delayed and bump into the hiccups with production, as well as suffer from possibly low stock levels at launch (again).
Videocardz noticed a post on X from analyst Dan Nystedt, who marked a report from the Commercial Times, a Taiwanese news site that made various claims about Nvidia that run into problems with the said GPUs.
NVIDIA’s latest RTX50 Gaming Graphics card series faces delays until mid-March at the earliest due to performance problems in chips, RTX5070 and 5060 to be mistaken, media report, while damage to Taiwan 26. January is a key is also a key Factor in …February 20, 2025
Apparently, Blackwell chips used in RTX 5060 and 5070 (known as GB205 in the latter case, and rumors that GB206 for the former) suffered from performance issues that required addressing at the last minute. And the need for the additional honey late in the day has the “delayed mass production plan” (remember that this is an article translated from Chinese).
The Commercial Times also points out that the “Tainan Earth Quake disturbed TSMC’s Wafer production,” which is what Nvidia’s Blackwell chips are designed from, so this has worsened tender problems, we are told.
The report claims that the end result of all this is that mass production of both the incoming RTX 5070 and 5060 (remember, the latter GPU has not been officially confirmed by NVIDIA yet) has been delayed by about four weeks.
The theory presented is that Nvidia had previously.
Analysis: A theoretical, but depressingly credible scenario
What does all this mean in practice? Well, maybe nothing – after all, it’s just a bunch of rumors – but the fact is that it marries other speculation that suggests pretty much the same thing: a delay from February/March to March/April. (It came from one of the more reliable sources out there to hardware-related gossip too).
On top of that, it knows for sure that the RTX 5070 has been delayed – Nvidia originally announced that this GPU and its ten partner would both be sold in February. And while the RTX 5070 TI is now out as planned, the RTX 5070 Vanilla version has actually been set back to a date of the sale of March 5. (It is worth noting that ten use another Blackwell chip, GB203, as opposed to GB205 in the Plain 5070 -and therefore the chip -performance problems mentioned would not apply to the former as that chip has already been put out there in RTX 5080 ).
As you may have noticed, the RTX 5070 TI is also sold today, but the stock has disappeared virtually immediately. If you got a GPU, congratulations, you were lucky (and if you are still hunting, check out our guide to where you can buy 5070 ten).
If the production of the RTX 5070 actually runs behind the plan as rumored and nvidia, which has pushed the GPU back, makes things look shaking here-so we can fully expect a lean level of supply, and the same blink-and- it-gone stock scenario with RTX 5070.
The whole thing is also depressingly credible. Let me put it this way: Do you think when the RTX 5070 becomes available to buy in early March, will there be plenty of stock that kicks around? No, I didn’t, although of course I could be very wrong (and nothing would be happy to me anymore, frankly, as I might want to buy one of these graphics cards).
As for the RTX 5060, we do not know if this GPU is coming soon, as Nvidia has not said anything official, but the rumor mill expects it to be in the near future. If this speculation is correct, we will now see in mid -April, then the graphics card is still a few months away (in theory).
The more positive news made with this report from the Commercial Times is that Nvidia seems to ‘do everything to speed up production for Blackwell GPUs and get everything back on the field, and analysts believe that the defective supply will gradually improve Turn forward.
So hopefully this will not be a long -lasting tale of crooked supply and demand with severely horizontal prices that we have seen in the past.
