The Information reports that chip giant Nvidia is skipping a planned refresh of the 5000 series GPUs and delaying the next-gen 6000 series until 2027. With RAM in short supply and its own silicon essential to the AI boom, there simply isn't the capacity to get them on the shelves. Moreover, NVidia is cutting production of some lines of GPU to crank out more AI-specialized hardware. If it always sucks to be a gamer, it currently sucks harder.
That means gamers, already hard-pressed to find last year's RTX 50 series, likely won't get the expected "Super" version in 2026. On top of that, The Information says the delay will also push back NVIDIA's next-gen graphics card (likely "RTX 60"). That component was initially expected to begin mass production at the end of 2027.
The Verge's Stevie Bonifield puts it in economic context:
The priority shift away from gaming GPUs follows record-breaking revenue for Nvidia, driven by its AI chips. Data center revenue made up $51.2 billion out of the total $57 billion Nvidia reported in its Q3 2026 earnings. While gaming revenue was also up 30 percent during that same period, it makes up a much smaller slice of the pie than it used to.
It's quite the double whammy after yesterday's delay of the new Steam Machine. If you have plans to buy computer parts this year, I would suggests a DIY build with used or modest parts, immediately, to get you through the next 2-3 years. By then we'll all either be dead or able to pluck 5090s from the piles on wooden carts hauled by rag-and-bonemen over the nukeblasted moors of what used to be America.
Besides, all you need is 8GB of RAM and a GTX 1080. Runs everything on high, to this day, on my OLED monitor.
