It’s CES week, and it has been a disappointment if you were expecting any new GPUs to be announced. Nvidia made it clear ahead of the annual conference that it won’t be announcing any new GPUs at CES 2026; there has been nothing from AMD or Intel either, as far as discrete graphics go. Now, a new rumor suggests we’ll have to wait until the second half of 2027 for Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 60 series.

In fact, little hardware from the big three has been launched, outside of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Intel’s new Panther Lake architecture, which does come with some impressive integrated graphics power, for what it’s worth. There has been no mention of RTX 50 Super cards either, with speculation pointing towards a delay until later this year.

RTX 60 series rumored for 2027 with Rubin architecture

RTX 60 release date rumors previously pointed towards 2026 at the earliest, while less optimistic predictions placed the release window in early 2028 in the wake of ongoing memory shortages, which are likely the reason behind the RTX 50 Super delay, too. The latest RTX 60 rumor comes from well-known leaker kopite7kimi, who has a good track record with this kind of stuff. They claim the RTX 60 series will be coming in “2027H2” during a debate on X regarding the architecture of the next-gen GPUs.

kopite7kimi also says the RTX 60 series will be using Rubin architecture, which is already confirmed for Nvidia’s upcoming data center products, succeeding Blackwell. It’s worth noting that the RTX 50 series also uses Blackwell architecture, so there’s no immediate reason to believe Nvidia will split them, though it has happened in the past (Volta being one notable example).

As far as AI workloads go, Vera Rubin is up to 5x faster than Blackwell, though it’s important to point out that doesn’t necessarily translate to a massive uplift in gaming performance. Regardless, Nvidia has long seen the future of gaming graphics as neural rendering, not raw rasterization, so these AI boosts come in handy. While we wait for the RTX 60 series (and indeed the RTX 50 Super series), there are rumors of Nvidia bringing back production of the most popular GPU on Steam, the RTX 3060.

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