NVIDIA GeForce RTX 60 Series Likely Pushed To 2028 As A Result Of RTX 50 SUPER Delays

There’s no shortage of bad news when it comes to memory shortage/pricing situation, so here’s another: NVIDIA is not looking to launch a new generation of GPUs for at least the next 23 months. No RTX 60 until 2028, at least, according to The Information.

RTX 50 SUPER Delayed, And So Does RTX 60

It boils down to the domino effect that memory shortage has caused, which we already know has wrecked NVIDIA’s supposed original plan of introducing RTX 50 SUPER series refreshes last month. Per The Information:

The company this year had scheduled the release of an incremental update, code-named Kicker, to last year’s RTX 50 line of GPUs, and it had completed the new design, the two people said.

But in December, NVIDIA managers changed plans, telling employees and suppliers the company was delaying Kicker, without offering a new timeline. NVIDIA managers said one reason was due to the global memory shortages, which have pushed up prices, and the need to prioritize memory production for the company’s AI chip business, according to the two individuals.

The delay will also push back the release of NVIDIA’s next-generation gaming GPU. Likely called the RTX 60 series, it was originally scheduled to begin mass production at the end of 2027, according to one of the people.

In case you forgot, the alleged GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series lineup involves three cards: the RTX 5080 SUPER, the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER, and the RTX 5070 SUPER. These cards was originally expected to launch as the answer to the lack of VRAM capacity in the original RTX 50 lineup, as all three cards feature 50% increase in VRAM capacity over their non-SUPER counterparts, on top of minor performance increases through raised TGP limits, and in the case of RTX 5070 SUPER, additional CUDA cores.

Now, it should be noted that all of these assumes that the memory situation does not improve until the widely agreed timeframe of 2028 – if for any reason that the “AI bubble” has decided it’s high time to pop itself, the GPU giant certainly has the capability to kickstart the launch of RTX 50 SUPER series (given that the hardware likely exists by this point). Subsequently, this should also accelerate the launch schedule of the RTX 60 series, based on the “Rubin” architecture, the same one found in the likes of GB200.

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