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It was disappointing to many not to see an RTX 50 Super refresh at CES 2026. Now, a new report from The Information states that Nvidia plans not to launch any new GPUs in 2026. It also confirmed that the upcoming RTX 60 series is delayed beyond 2027.
Nvidia reportedly completed the design of its RTX 50 Super refresh, but the outgoing memory chip shortage has allegedly incentivized Nvidia to deprioritize RTX 50 Super production. This issue is also causing problems for the RTX 60 series, which was reportedly supposed to begin "mass production at the end of 2027". Nvidia has not commented directly on these delays, but it told Tom's Hardware, "Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working closely with our suppliers to maximize memory availability."
Rumors of an RTX 50 Super refresh have been around for months, we even saw some leaks of potential specs of the cards. If the rumors were true, Nvidia was planning to launch an RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5070 Super, similar to the RTX 40 Series Super refresh that preceded it.
The main upgrade all of these RTX 50 Super GPUs were supposedly going to receive was a major spec bump in GDDR7 memory capacity and higher power limits. The RTX 5080 Super was supposedly going to get 24GB of GDDR7 and a 415W TGP. The outgoing 5080, by contrast, comes with 16GB of GDDR7 and a 360W TDP. Similarly, the RTX 5070 Ti Super was going to get 24GB of GDDR7 and a 350W TDP, compared to the outgoing 5070 Ti's 16GB of GDDR7 and 300W TDP.
The RTX 5070 Super is the only one of the three models that was rumored to get a core count increase, in addition to extra memory and higher TGP. The RTX 5070 Super was allegedly going to come with 6,400 CUDA cores, 18GB of GDDR7, and a 275W TDP compared to the outgoing 5070's 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR7, and 250W TGP.
Many expected Nvidia to announce the RTX 50 Series super refresh at CES 2026, but just before the event, Nvidia publicly announced that it would not announce any new GPUs at the event, a first for the company in five years.
During CES we finally saw some rumors cropping up for the RTX 60 series. These rumors pointed towards a 2H 2027 release date and a potential RTX 6090 graphics card that was at least 30% faster than the RTX 5090 using the Rubin architecture.
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There is a chance Nvidia could still release new GPUs later in 2026, but this latest report has dampened hopes of that occurring. Nvidia's next generation RTX 60 series GPUs are now likely begin production in 2028.
The memory chip shortage is also causing mayhem with Nvidia's existing GPUs; Nvidia is rumored to have slashed GPU supply by 20%, and Nvidia is also prioritizing RTX 50 series GPUs with lower VRAM capacity to combat the shortage. The only good news in all of this is that Jensen Huang is looking to resurrect old GPUs to keep the market fresh with as much GPU supply as possible.
I'm not a gambling man, but here's my bet: we'll see 50 series Super in 2027 and 60 series in 2028. Not sure if production wind-down of 50 series vanilla would be like Q4 of this year or Q1 2026.
Strange times we're living in when new gaming GPU architectures will come every three years while AI GPU's will come annually.
Unfortunately for the client user nvidia is in a situation where they don't really have competition. From a business standpoint it absolutely makes sense to just roll with what they have and save the super launch until there's a reason for it. Intel doesn't seem likely to have any client discrete graphics this year and AMD has largely been radio silence. At this point there isn't much to look forward to this year for most folks aside from the interest in how things perform.
Maybe they think the 5090 will hold up at 4K for the next two CPU generations. If that is the case, then they have thought this through. Also, given how DLSS 4.5 handles ray tracing, it looks like the 5090/DLSS combo has so much more potential to the point that continual DLSS improvements along with AI will make even more detailed environments possible. Of course, NOT depending on MFG which should not be needed at all for a flagship.
