2026 Risks Being the Most Boring Year for Desktop GPUs: RTX 5000 SUPER Only at the Beginning of 2027?

Contrary to recent rumors, the refresh of the GeForce RTX 5000 series might not arrive during 2026. According to new information reported by BenchLife, NVIDIA is considering the debut of the GeForce RTX 5000 SUPER series at CES 2027, thus delaying the launch compared to previous expectations.

The most significant novelty in the offering should be the adoption of 3 GB GDDR7 memory chips per module. This configuration would allow the company to significantly increase the amount of video memory without altering the bus width. Practically speaking, models currently equipped with 16 GB could move to 24 GB while maintaining the same eight-module configuration, resulting in a 50% increase in capacity.

The rumors that emerged in recent weeks had already outlined some possible configurations for the SUPER series. Among these are a GeForce RTX 5080 SUPER with 24 GB, a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPER also with 24 GB, and a GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER with 18 GB. More recently, there has also been speculation about a possible GeForce RTX 5060 equipped with 12 GB of memory.

While this is not an official confirmation nor a reference to any leaked roadmaps, the site asserts that information gathered from the industry and partners suggests a debut for the RTX 5000 SUPER series "not before the beginning of 2027."

There were rumors that the Blackwell refresh was scheduled for early this year, but the significant increase in memory prices has led NVIDIA to temporarily freeze the initiative. The company also preferred to allocate its production budget at TSMC toward higher-margin AI accelerators.

Thus, 2026 might be a "sleep-inducing" year on the dedicated desktop GPU front. At Computex 2026, NVIDIA did not announce new GeForce cards for the consumer market, focusing its communications on AI solutions and the RTX Spark platform.

AMD, apart from the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, is expected to take its time, with the future Radeon generation based on RDNA 5 architecture anticipated only between the second half of 2027 and early 2028. Regarding Intel, despite reassurances, there remains thick fog.

After the Blackwell refresh, NVIDIA is expected to focus on the Rubin architecture, also anticipated between late 2027 and early 2028, thus directly competing with AMD RDNA 5. This, at least, can be inferred from the roadmap of the RTX Spark platform.