Nvidia's RTX 6000 GPUs rumored for 2028, not next year — and I think that makes a lot of sense given the RAM crisis
Frankly I'd be shocked to see next-gen GPUs arrive earlier
by https://www.techradar.com/author/darren-allan · TechRadarNews By Darren Allan Published 22 September 2026
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- Apparently Nvidia's not launching RTX 6000 GPUs until 2028
- A leaker claims that these graphics cards have been delayed from the 2027 debut Nvidia originally planned
- Pushing back these GPUs makes sense given the RAM crisis, and some gamers are happy to wait anyway
Nvidia has pushed back its timeframe for launching next-generation graphics cards for gamers, and we're now hearing they won't arrive until 2028.
As ever, all this is theoretical – Nvidia hasn't uttered a peep about its RTX 6000 GPUs officially – but according to Kopite7kimi, a well-known leaker on X (via TweakTown), these products are now destined for a 2028 release which "means they have postponed again."
In other words, Nvidia was supposedly looking at a launch for next year, but the leaker now believes that isn't the case.
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Another leaker, Moore's Law is Dead on YouTube, recently said that Nvidia is planning a 2027 launch for the RTX 6000 series, so this directly contradicts that idea. However, it's possible that this was the case, but Team Green has only just changed its mind.
Analysis: a sensible move
Of course, both of these assertions are just rumors, and we need to regard them with an equal amount of caution – but I think it makes more sense for Nvidia to delay the release of its next-gen GeForce GPUs until 2028.
Why? I have three predictable words for you: the RAM crisis. With the memory shortage – which also impacts video RAM – rapidly worsening as 2026 progresses, and predicted to descend further into nightmarish pricing territory in 2027, next year seems like a bad move for launching a family of next-gen GPUs.
Especially when you consider that the first graphics cards to emerge will doubtless be the flagship RTX 6090 and the 6080. How expensive will they be in such a climate, given that the RTX 5080 is already exorbitantly priced? The latter has reached around $1,500 in the US at this point, and is at similar levels in other regions, such as £1,350 in the UK (that's the cheapest GPU in both cases at the time of writing, I should make clear). And let's not even talk about the RTX 5090 which has got completely ridiculous.
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