Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world thanks to the AI boom (or bubble), but there’s still the small matter of graphics cards to attend to.
The company’s 50-series GPUs debuted earlier this year, but arrived with mixed responses. There was the price to consider, the fact that they were scalped to high heaven, and the company betting big on its AI technologies to add generated interstitial frames instead of making the cards more powerful.
Still, with rumors floating around that concern the 60-series, and the expectation of RTX 50 SUPER series launching soon, it may not be long until we see new cards from Nvidia. Here’s all we know so far.
When can we expect the RTX 60-series?
Our first leak, in December 2025, suggests that NVIDIA’s 60-series GPUs are slated for a “Q1 2027 launch announcement,” likely to be at CES next year.
There’s also a good chance we end up with a full fleet of models, from 6050 up to 6090, with suggestions of big power gains at the top end.
Rumored specs
There are some suggestions about what the new NVIDIA 60-series GPUs will include, and also what they might not.
The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has been touting the next-generation Rubin GPU architecture at every Nvidia GTC, so there’s a strong likelihood it will debut with the 60-series, as it’s also slated for data centers.
The Blackwell architecture began in data centers, too, and then made the move to consumer cards with the 50-series, so expect a similar play here.
NVIDIA reckons Rubin is twice as fast as Blackwell in AI workloads, but when it comes to gaming, rumors have suggested a 40% increase from the RTX 5090 to the RTX 6090 - a sizeable climb, although expect more power usage.
As for what might not be there, expect NVIDIA to avoid launching cards with 8GB of VRAM. Customers have been voting with their wallets and pushing back on the idea, suggesting we could get more on the GPU front this time around. Sadly, though, there’s a spanner in the works…
The RAMifications
NVIDIA, as with just about every tech giant in the world, is likely to be brought to its knees by the RAM crisis.
If you missed it, RAM is in such high demand for data centers that it’s being priced out of reach for consumers. The AI age has essentially hamstrung the computing industry until prices come down or RAM is more available, and neither looks likely anytime soon.
That could mean one of two things: NVIDIA will be forced to keep relatively low VRAM counts in its GPUs and compromise on features and performance accordingly, or the new cards will skyrocket in price - particularly if they’re scalped.
Neither sounds ideal, but that’s the world we’re living in right now it seems.
Will we get DLSS 5?
NVIDIA has been all-in on AI technologies for years, and as I type this, I can see that the NVIDIA app is now packed with an AI-powered Home Studio, the option to build a chatbot, an experimental AI assistant, and the option to stream games from the cloud, among other things.
Still, DLSS has perhaps been the feature getting the biggest push. It’s no ‘silver bullet’ for unoptimized games, but can have a transformative effect on supported titles, ramping up frame rates at the cost of relatively minor latency and some shimmering edges.
It’s something AMD is still working to catch up on, and NVIDIA will no doubt want to press its advantage here, so expect DLSS 5.0 to be a very likely inclusion in anything 60-series.
For now, though, we don’t have a lot to go on for the tech. We’ll update this page if and when we hear more.
What about RTX 50 SUPER?
There’s a missing piece to this puzzle, though - NVIDIA’s Super lineup. The company tends to release more powerful versions of its hardware, but it’s been quiet on the Super front.
The RTX 50-series hasn’t had any mid-cycle refresh announcements just yet, prompting suggestions it may have been cancelled, given the current RAM issues we’ve discussed earlier on this page.
That seems to suggest the NVIDIA 60-series will be our next wave, skipping the Super refresh entirely - but we’ll update this page if we hear more. If you’re holding out, it’s not ideal though.
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