- Sources claim Nvidia will not make new gaming GPUs in 2026
- This is due to the RAM crisis, where video memory is prioritized for AI graphics cards.
- The report further claims that Nvidia is “drastically cutting production” of existing RTX 5000 GPUs, which sounds ominous.
We’re once again told that Nvidia won’t be releasing any new gaming GPUs in 2026, this time from a more authoritative source in the rumor mill.
The Information reports that Nvidia will not release any new GeForce graphics cards this year due to a RAM shortage that also affects video memory.
If true, it would be the first year in three decades that Nvidia hasn’t released a new gaming GPU, whether it’s an entirely new product or an update to an existing one, such as a Super version.
There are two sources with “direct knowledge” of the matter stating this, noting that Nvidia needs to prioritize the memory chips it sources for AI graphics cards, not gaming products, as there are far more profits to be made on the former.
The report also claims that Nvidia is “drastically cutting production” of its existing RTX 5000 GPUs, without providing any details on the exact percentage cut we’re seeing.
Obviously, it adds spice to all this. Nvidia declined to comment directly on these rumors, as expected, but Team Green told The Information that it continues to ship all GeForce products and is working with suppliers to maximize memory availability.
That’s exactly the same reassurance Nvidia gave when there was speculation that the RTX 5070 Ti had essentially been pulled from production lines, a claim Team Green strongly denied.
Analysis: A growing weight of rumors about both production cuts and delayed updates
Both rumors add to the existing threads that have already been woven from the vine. We’ve heard several times that Nvidia is cutting production levels of GeForce GPUs; the latest claim is a 15% to 20% drop. The information does not specify any specific value for this supposed cut in the gaming chips coming off the production lines, but if it is worth talking about, it must be a significant enough percentage, perhaps in line with the figure mentioned.
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The information also divulges that Nvidia planned an incremental update to the RTX 5000 range, codenamed ‘Kicker’, and that the redesign for these updated graphics cards had been completed. However, the report claims that Nvidia pushed these plans back to December 2025, without saying when the new launch deadline would be.
So it looks like it won’t be this year, and this could also set back the next-gen GeForce GPUs. Nvidia’s RTX 6000 range was supposed to enter mass production in late 2027, but that won’t happen now, we’re told. Presumably, that pushes these RTX 6000 GPUs back to 2028, although that’s not made clear here.
Of course, the ‘Kicker’ upgrade is undoubtedly the rumored RTX 5000 Super GPUs, which are incremental upgrades over existing models. According to rumors, Nvidia planned (or in fact still plans) an RTX 5070 Super, an RTX 5070 Ti Super and an RTX 5080 Super.
The theory was that they would load up on tons of video RAM (18GB for the RTX 5070 Super and 24GB for the other pair), so with that in mind and the VRAM shortage, it makes a lot of sense that Nvidia wouldn’t want to move forward with these new GPUs.
So the hope that we’ll see RTX 5000 Super upgrades made this year seems crushed. In fact, the most worrying prospect is not that there will be no new GeForce GPUs in 2026, but that Nvidia’s existing gaming boards will be subject to ever-increasing price increases as supply levels continue to fall.
Rumors from Nvidia’s big GPU rival, AMD, haven’t been any more comforting lately either. Far from the higher end of the graphics card spectrum, both Team Green and Red are now rumored to be leaning production more towards 8GB GPUs rather than 16GB models, much to the chagrin of many gamers who feel 8GB isn’t enough these days.
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