Nvidia's cheaper GPU just got more expensive than the one above it. no, that's not a typo

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely. Aliteq Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor

The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched at $429; Wccftech tracked its US median price at $804.99 this month, 88% above MSRP.

Guru3D found the same card up 39% just since June, from roughly $570 to $805 at some retailers.

The RTX 5070 (launch MSRP $549) has also risen, but its cheapest tracked listing this week — $763 — still undercut a $780 RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

It's a memory-supply story, not a 5060 Ti-specific one; the RX 9070 XT got pulled into the same reporting for the same reason.

If you can find an RTX 5070 for anything near $760–800, take it — it's the objectively faster card even against a 16GB 5060 Ti at the same price point. Only reach for the 5060 Ti 16GB if it's…

Buy on the whole spec sheet, not the VRAM number in isolation. 16GB matters if you're doing something specific with it — a 13B-class local model, texture-heavy creative work — but if you're shopping…

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