Nvidia Will not Launch A New Graphics Card This 12 months

Nvidia is reportedly opting to not launch new graphics playing cards this 12 months, and is slicing again its GPU manufacturing.

In a brand new report from The Information (paywalled), it’s claimed that Nvidia has determined to not launch its newest GPUs this 12 months—the long-rumored GeForce RTX 50-series Super refresh—in 2026. Those who spoke to the outlet on the situation of anonymity say Nvidia is doing it to concentrate on AI chips and datacenters as a result of RAM scarcity.

The report advertisements that Nvidia can be going to chop manufacturing of the present RTX 50-series graphics playing cards as a result of scarcity. A scarcity that has seen costs of reminiscence soar to the degrees past something that many have ever seen.

In a press release supplied to Insider Gaming, Nvidia stated, “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is robust, and reminiscence provide is constrained. We proceed to ship all GeForce SKUs and are working carefully with our suppliers to maximise reminiscence availability.“

The choice to seemingly again on graphics playing cards manufacturing comes as Nvidia’s earnings proceed to interrupt data. The firm’s newest earnings report in November noticed a 62% year-over-year development in income at $57 billion. Those earnings have resulted in Nvidia being the most important firm by way of market cap with a price of $4.259 trillion. It’s doubtless that these numbers rise rent after they report their FY26 fourth quarter earnings on February 25.

Nvidia has additionally stated that to assist with the scarcity, it will revive older {hardware}. Cards as previous because the 30-series may very well be relaunched to alleviate the scarcity, although, by relaunching playing cards which can be over a half-decade previous, avid gamers are more likely to miss out on present, modern-day options.

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Note: Story was up to date to incorporate Nvidia’s assertion