Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super refresh is delayed, and the RTX 60-series might miss 2027

The Super refresh to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs was expected astatine CES 2026 successful January, but it didn’t make an appearance. The Information reports that successful December, Nvidia managers decided not to merchandise the caller cards arsenic scheduled, choosing to prioritize AI chips alternatively owed to the constricted proviso of RAM presently available. On apical of that, “Nvidia is besides slashing accumulation of its existent statement of gaming chips,” the RTX 50-series, which are already successful precocious request and consistently sold retired astatine retailers.

The privilege displacement distant from gaming GPUs follows record-breaking revenue for Nvidia, driven by its AI chips. Data halfway gross made up $51.2 cardinal retired of the full $57 cardinal Nvidia reported successful its Q3 2026 earnings. While gaming gross was besides up 30 percent during that aforesaid period, it makes up a overmuch smaller portion of the pastry than it utilized to.

The RTX 50-series Super hold not only intends there’s presently nary caller gaming GPU motorboat from Nvidia scheduled for this year, but it could push backmost next-generation cards, too. According to The Information’s source, the RTX 60-series was “originally scheduled to statesman wide accumulation astatine the extremity of 2027,” and pushing that backmost could nonstop it into 2028 aliases moreover later.

As The Information points out, it’s not intolerable that Nvidia could move the timeline for its caller gaming GPUs backmost up. But arsenic the RAM shortage continues, driving up prices and pushing backmost merchandise dates for everything from iPhones to the Steam Machine, planned hardware upgrades for PC gamers whitethorn person to wait.