- Sources claim Nvidia won’t make any 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 “cutting production” of existing RTX 5000 GPUs, which sounds ominous
We’ve been told again that Nvidia won’t be releasing any new gaming GPUs in 2026, this time from a more authoritative source on the rumor mill.
The Information reports that Nvidia will not release any new GeForce graphics cards this year due to the RAM shortage that also affects video memory.
If true, it will 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 of an existing one, such as a Super version.
There are two sources with ‘direct knowledge’ of the matter who claim this, noting that Nvidia needs to prioritize the memory chips it gets for AI graphics cards, not gaming products, as there is much more profit in the former.
The report also claims that Nvidia is “cutting production” of its existing RTX 5000 GPUs, without providing any details on the exact percentage reduction we’re looking at.
Of course, add spices to all this. Nvidia wouldn’t be drawn on commenting directly on these rumors—unsurprisingly—but Team Green told The Information that it continues to ship all GeForce products and is working with vendors to maximize memory availability.
It’s the exact same assurance that Nvidia gave when there was speculation that the RTX 5070 Ti had essentially been dropped from the production lines, a claim that Team Green flatly denied.
Analysis: a growing weight of rumors for both production cuts and delayed updates
Both of these rumors add to existing threads already spun from the vine. We’ve heard several times now that Nvidia is cutting production levels for GeForce GPUs, with the latest claim being a drop of 15% to 20%. The information does not establish any specific value for this alleged cut in gaming chips rolling off production lines, but if it is worth talking about, it must be a significant enough percentage, perhaps in line with the figure mentioned.
We’ve also previously heard from a reliable leaker on X (the same source as the rumored 20% production drop) that there will be no gaming GPUs from Nvidia in 2026. So with two separate reports claiming this – and a more heavyweight source in the form of The Information here – this increases the odds that there’s some truth to these theories.
The information also reveals that Nvidia was planning a phased update to the RTX 5000 series, codenamed ‘Kicker’, and that the new design for these updated graphics cards had been finalized. However, the report claims that Nvidia delayed those plans to December 2025, without saying when the new launch timeframe would be.
So it looks like it won’t be this year, and it could also push back next-generation GeForce GPUs. Nvidia’s RTX 6000 series was supposed to go into mass production at the end of 2027, but that’s not happening now, we’re told. That probably shunts those RTX 6000 GPUs back to 2028, though that’s not clear here.
Of course, the ‘Kicker’ update is undoubtedly the rumored RTX 5000 Super GPUs, which are incremental upgrades over existing models. Based on rumors, Nvidia planned (or actually still plans) an RTX 5070 Super, an RTX 5070 Ti Super and an RTX 5080 Super.
The theory was that they’d be loading tons of video RAM – 18GB for the RTX 5070 Super and 24GB for the other pair – so with that in mind, and the scarcity of VRAM, it makes a lot of sense that Nvidia doesn’t want to go ahead with these new GPUs.
The hope that we will see the RTX 5000 Super refresh realized this year, therefore, seems to be dashed. The more worrying prospect isn’t actually that there won’t be any new GeForce GPUs in 2026, but that Nvidia’s existing gaming boards will face increasing price increases as supply levels continue to fall.
The rumblings from Nvidia’s big GPU rival, AMD, haven’t been any more comforting lately either. Away 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 that 8GB is nowhere near enough these days.
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