German retailer says RTX 5070 orders are capped, RTX 5070 Ti and up are unavailable
Source: Newegg
A parts seller in Europe shared an email from his distributor saying RTX 5070 supply is being rationed. The message caps orders at five units per model for cards “with the 5070 chip” and says the distributor cannot sell any RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, or RTX 5090 cards.
The distributor says the limits apply to both existing orders and any orders placed after December 30. It also says it will consolidate current orders and send an updated overview. The retailer claims most of his GPU orders were cancelled, except for roughly €20,000 worth of RTX 5070 units, and he says Amazon Business is also limiting how many GPUs he can order.
Source: Reddit
No specific cause is given beyond “ the current market situation. ” The timing matches reports of tighter memory availability spilling into products that rely on large amounts of VRAM, including higher-end GPUs, which also carry more GDDR7.
Other reports have pointed to retail-side rationing in Japan for 16GB+ GPUs, and to steep moves in memory and NAND pricing that can flow into GPU BOM costs. It doesn’t look good, given that RTX 5090 pricing has basically exploded starting this year.
