By Digital Foundry
Publication Date: 2026-06-09 10:30:00
Hanging on for a graphics card upgrade? Rumours this week suggest that it may be some time until we see a proper new generation, with Nvidia’s RTX 50 Super series potentially arriving by early 2027 – but proper new silicon from Nvidia or AMD being at least a year away.
Long-time leaker MEGAsizeGPU took to Twitter to report the rumours, suggesting that RTX 50 Super would be “back on track”. They also mention a 12GB version of the RTX 5060, an impactful upgrade over the original 8GB version. That’s due to the use of 3GB GDDR7 modules on the Super cards versus the 2GB modules on the original Blackwell cards. This 12GB card would get the RTX 5060 Super moniker.
The other RTX 50 Super cards in the lineup see similar 50 percent additions to their VRAM allocation, including the RTX 5070 Super with 18GB of GDDR7 memory, RTX 5070 Ti Super 24GB and the RTX 5080 Super 24GB. Chinese site BenchLife suggests a CES 2027 reveal for these graphics cards.
There’s relatively little known about Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 60-series “Rubin” 3nm cards, but based on past behaviour I’d expect at least a 12-month gap between the release of the Blackwell Super cards and Rubin. Expect a continued focus on path tracing performance, and acceleration for the performance-intensive DLSS 5 which was demoed using two RTX 5090s.
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