These are strange (and very frustrating) times for anyone wanting to buy a new graphics card, and it looks like Nvidia has decided to partially address the problem by re-releasing the GTX 1050 Ti – a Pascal-based graphic card it stopped selling two years ago.

Between supply issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic, TSMC, the semiconductor foundry that Nvidia uses for its GPUs, being under increased pressure from other clients, and cryptocurrencies once again on the rise – leading to many miners bulk buying what little GPU stock there is – it’s become almost impossible to get hold of Nvidia’s new Ampere RTX 3000 series graphics cards.

According to YouTuber TechYesCity, Nvidia is bringing back the GTX 1050 Ti to try to help things – at least at the low-end of the market.
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