Nvidia RTX 6090: no date, a memory crunch and leakers split between 2027 and 2028. Everything we know

Nvidia has not announced the RTX 6090, yet leakers have been putting dates on it since November 2025. The company’s fastest GeForce card is still the RTX 5090, which went on sale Jan. 30, 2025, at $1,999, and on Oct. 15 Nvidia’s compare page listed no RTX 60 card. Asked in September, an Nvidia spokesperson said the company doesn’t “comment on rumors or unannounced products.”

The short version: no date, no price, not even a confirmed name. One video channel citing an Nvidia source says the first half of 2027; three other leakers say 2028. Leakers also say the RTX 5090 has gone out of production. The next big Nvidia stage is Jensen Huang’s keynote at GTC Berlin on Oct. 21.

Two years between flagships

Nvidia’s 90-class cards follow a familiar script: a big stage, then a sale date a few weeks later. The RTX 3090 was announced on Sept. 1, 2020, and went on sale Sept. 24 at $1,499. The RTX 4090 was unveiled at GTC on Sept. 20, 2022, and went on sale Oct. 12 at $1,599. Nvidia unveiled the RTX 5090 at CES on Jan. 6, 2025, as “the fastest GeForce RTX GPU to date,” claiming up to twice the speed of the RTX 4090 with DLSS 4.

The gaps between those launches ran just over two years, then about two years and three and a half months. By mid-October 2026, the RTX 5090 had held the top spot for about 20 months.

A year of software

Ahead of Nvidia’s CES GeForce community update on Jan. 5, its GeForce account posted: “Quick note: No new GPUs will be announced.” It brought DLSS 4.5 instead. At GTC on March 16 it unveiled DLSS 5, which Jensen Huang called “the GPT moment for graphics.” In the keynote, Huang also called Nvidia “the house that GeForce made.” The year’s one new chip for gamers, RTX Spark, is not a desktop card but a PC superchip with a Blackwell RTX GPU and a 20-core Grace CPU, for laptops and compact desktops.

DLSS 5 reached NBA 2K27 in September on every RTX 50 desktop and laptop GPU, and it now runs on a single RTX 5090, down from two in March. Hogwarts Legacy support follows on Nov. 5. None of it needs an RTX 60 card.

The memory squeeze

The reason most often given for the wait is memory. On Feb. 5 a tech business publication, citing people familiar with Nvidia’s plans, reported that no new gaming GPU would come in 2026 and that RTX 60, once due to start mass production at the end of 2027, had slipped past that. Nvidia gave no date, only a statement: “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained.”

Huang had already called Nvidia “a very significant GDDR consumer” at a CES press Q&A, and in August Nvidia’s finance chief said memory prices are “headed even higher into next year.” A hardware leaker on X said in January that Nvidia had cut card supply to its board partners by 15% to 20% and would ship no new GeForce gaming GPU until 2027. That claim and the February report are both still holding: no new GeForce desktop card has launched in 2026.

2027 or 2028

The release date is where the leaks collide. In November 2025 a video channel with a mixed track record said RTX 60 would come no earlier than CES 2027. In January a hardware leaker with a strong track record said the second half of 2027.

On Sept. 14 another video channel with a mixed track record, citing an Nvidia source, said RTX 60 is still aimed at the first half of 2027, after moving back from 2026 to free TSMC capacity for AI chips. Within a week three other leakers, two with strong track records, said 2028. One called the first-half 2027 claim fake. Another was the leaker who had said the second half of 2027: on Sept. 21 that leaker called the chips “a product from 2028.” The channel stood by its story. Nvidia has confirmed none of it, so every claim is still holding.

Rubin, GR202 and 3nm

Nvidia has named Rubin as the architecture after Blackwell, but only for data center chips so far. The January post that picked the second half of 2027 also said RTX 60 uses Rubin, with gaming chips code-named GR20x. On March 26 the video channel behind the November 2025 date described three chips on TSMC 3nm: GR202 for the RTX 6090, with up to 192 SMs and 32GB on a 512-bit bus, GR203 for an RTX 6080 with 20GB and GR205 for an RTX 6070 with 16GB. The RTX 5090, built on TSMC 4N, has 170 SMs and the same 32GB on a 512-bit bus.

Days later a hardware news site citing its own industry sources said Nvidia had not finalized RTX 60 specs or briefed its partners, and that the gaming Rubin chips had not taped out. All three claims are still holding.

Speed, power and price

The same March video also claimed at least double the path-tracing speed of RTX 50 and a 30% to 35% change in regular raster games, a figure write-ups read differently, one as a gain and one as a drop. That claim is still holding too. Nothing credible has leaked on power. The RTX 5090 is rated at 575W, with a 1,000W power supply advised. There is no credible price leak either. Nvidia’s last three 90-class cards climbed from $1,499 to $1,599 to $1,999.

Where is the RTX 50 Super?

The refresh first surfaced in April 2025, when a user on a Chinese hardware forum said it would add memory with 3GB GDDR7 chips: 24GB for an RTX 5080 Super and 18GB for an RTX 5070 Super. In the leaks that followed, those chips became the problem. In November 2025 a leaker on X called the series cancelled because the chips were scarce, and days later another leaker said it was only delayed.

In June that second leaker said it was “back on track” and should still launch in 2026. In July a hardware news site citing a graphics card maker reported the cards are built but on hold at that maker because 3GB GDDR7 chips cost too much. By September the same leaker said they “may not be released at all.” Nvidia has never announced the RTX 50 Super, none is on sale or on its site, and every claim above is still holding.

Is the RTX 5090 on its way out?

On Oct. 10 a hardware leaker, citing a graphics card factory notice and backed by two other leakers, said Nvidia had stopped making every RTX 5090 model, leaving a 24GB RTX 5080 as the top GeForce card. Two days later a Taiwanese hardware site said board partners had been told that design data for a 24GB RTX 5080 is coming soon. A big US retailer’s listing reportedly marks the RTX 5090 “Not Carried,” and on Oct. 15 a user screenshot and two hardware news sites said it had dropped off Nvidia’s US online store. We could not check that store. Nvidia’s product pages still list the card, and Nvidia has not commented, so the claims are still holding.

What to watch next

The first date is Oct. 16, when RTX Spark laptops go on sale and the faster DLSS 5 model reaches NBA 2K27. The bigger stage is Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin keynote on Oct. 21. Then on Nov. 17 Nvidia holds its third-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call, a chance to hear more about memory supply. We update this story as soon as Nvidia names RTX 60, a date or a price.