- Rumors Suggest Nvidia Has a ‘Very High-End’ RTX 50 GPU in the Works
- It could be an RTX 5090 Ti, or RTX Titan, which will arrive in the third quarter of this year.
- However, it seems highly unlikely that Nvidia will produce a supercharged RTX 5090 for several reasons.
A new rumor claims that Nvidia could have an RTX 5090 Ti in the works, but I highly doubt it – if there’s a new heavy GPU waiting in the wings, it surely won’t be aimed at gamers.
VideoCardz noted that French tech site Overclocking.com posted this speculation, apparently after much deliberation over whether to pass it on (understandably, and note that the site expresses its own disbelief over this alleged Nvidia plan).
The rumor is that in Q3 2026, Nvidia plans to release a “very high-end RTX 50 series card,” meaning an RTX 5090 Ti or perhaps an RTX Titan to sit at the top of the GeForce range.
They tell us that the design process and the first work to manufacture this graphics card are already underway.
According to Overclocking.com, five or six reliable sources, all from different companies (and indeed different countries), have insisted that this new RTX 5000 GPU is available. This follows similar conversations that the French site says it heard at CES 2026 last month, but didn’t take into account because it seemed like too fanciful an idea given the RAM crisis.
Analysis: An RTX 5090 Ti seems highly unlikely, to say the least
Frankly, I think this rumor is still too broad, certainly the claim that there will be an RTX 5090 Ti, which is one of the mentioned possibilities. This just doesn’t make any sense.
For one, Nvidia has apparently ruled out any potential RTX 5000 Super upgrade for this year, and indeed any gaming graphics cards, if multiple reports elsewhere in the rumor mill are to be believed.
Because? Because video RAM is scarce, as is all memory these days, and therefore more expensive, VRAM-loaded consumer GPUs like an RTX 5080 Super or 5070 Super would eat up Nvidia’s RAM resources. That’s memory that would be much better implemented with heavy AI GPUs, which are much more cost effective, and an RTX 5090 Ti would surely be expected to be loaded with more VRAM than ever before.
Also consider that the RTX 5090 itself is already stupidly expensive at retail, having suffered a painful bout of price inflation since 2026 began. So how much would an RTX 5090 Ti cost? And also keep in mind that the reason the 5090 is so expensive is because of supply limitations; Again, why would Nvidia release a Ti version in this climate?
On top of all these reasons, there is the simple truth that gamers don’t really need an RTX 5090 Ti. Enabling full core loading on the GB202 chip (which powers the 5090) wouldn’t be a huge jump in performance (around 10%), especially considering the cost it could have (as already noted). Really, anyway, the RTX 5090 is plenty powerful for any PC gamer.
If this rumor is true, it will surely be an RTX Titan (posed here as the other possibility) or a similar heavy-duty model aimed at prosumers, not consumers or gamers. And given the VRAM situation, it seems unlikely that Nvidia will even bother going this route, as the French site admits, but apparently this is the current plan.
Even if we assume this is correct, and Nvidia is indeed exploring a design around a high-end RTX 5000 board, there’s no guarantee it will amount to anything – these concepts can be played with and then abandoned relatively late in the day.
In short, then, don’t expect an RTX 5090 Ti by the end of this year, and I’m very willing to believe the rumors that we won’t be getting any new GeForce gaming GPUs from Nvidia in 2026.
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