It was disappointing to many to not see an RTX 50 Super refresh at CES 2026. Now, a brand new report from The Information states that Nvidia plans to not launch any new GPUs in 2026. It additionally confirmed that the upcoming RTX 60 collection is delayed past 2027.
Nvidia reportedly accomplished the design of its RTX 50 Super refresh, however the outgoing reminiscence chip scarcity has allegedly incentivized Nvidia to deprioritize RTX 50 Super manufacturing. This challenge can be inflicting issues for the RTX 60 collection, which was reportedly supposed to start “mass production at the end of 2027”. Nvidia has not commented straight on these delays, nevertheless it informed 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.”
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.