Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026
AMD’s RDNA 4 focus for 2026 will reportedly be one GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB
Sounds like current hardware is going to stay current for some time.
I’m a bit sad since PC gaming is a bit of hobby of mine. Geeking out over new hardware is fun. Throwing a reasonable amount of disposable income at the computer for perfomance gains was fun.
But tbh were at a point in time were hardware upgrades get less and less relevant. I could still use the now 7(?) year old AMD 5700XT i used to have and be perfectly happy to this date. Most games still look fantastic at low to medium settings. 1080p at 40fps doesnt diminish fun in most single player games. The majority of e-sport titles run on a potato anyway. 8GB Vram is still relevant for better or worse. Missing hardware features like raytracing in Indiana Jones or meshshaders(?) in Alan Wake 2 can be circumvented with a bit of fiddling. Sure, badly optimized UE5 slop is a bit annoying.
Besides that we have access to a fantastic backlog. eg The Witcher 3 still looks fantastic after 11 years. I just recently played through a 9 year old Watch Dogs 2 which could release today and nobody would complain about its graphics. Even without access to new releases i would never run out of games i still want to play until the bombs drop.
So personally i dont really mind these current market changes. Like fine. I keep my 5 year old 16GB card. Whatever. Instead i use that money to touch more grass or something. idk
Absolute joke. Nvidia has officially checked out of the gaming market and they are not even trying to hide it anymore. 2028 for a new generation? That is an eternity in tech. It is clear that if you are not a multi-billion dollar data center buying H100s, Jensen does not want your email, let alone your business.
The memory shortage excuse smells like total BS too. They have plenty of memory for the AI stuff because that is where the margins are. They are just using the shortage as a convenient shield to starve the gaming market and keep the 50 series prices inflated for as long as humanly possible.
The most insulting part is the bit about resurrecting old GPUs. Are we really going back to the days of buying 3060s in 2026 just because they refuse to produce enough modern silicon for us? This industry is exhausting. I really hope Intel or AMD can actually land a punch for once, but honestly, why would they even bother competing for gamers when they can all just chase the same AI dragon? We are cooked.
I’d be fine with buying a second 3060 if Nvidia hadn’t conveniently killed SLI the generation before…
Monopoly capitalism doing monopoly capitalism things. In theory, it would be the government’s job to prevent the formation of monopolies. Except they stopped doing that long ago. Yet another thing we can thank Reagan for.
Not if Nvidia’s giant incestuous money bubble pops and they run out of cash and have nothing to sell to consumer markets…
