AMD's RDNA 5 gaming GPUs might not be launched until 2028

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT ($649 on Amazon) were launched in spring 2025, only shortly after Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000. In the second half of 2025, the DRAM crisis hit and not only drove up the prices of RAM, SSDs and graphics cards, but also caused the cancellation of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 Super. It seems that gaming enthusiasts will also have to wait a while longer for the next generation of AMD graphics cards.

Tweakers spoke to several board partners who sell AMD Radeon desktop graphics cards at Computex in Taiwan. Some board partners expect the first gaming graphics cards based on the AMD RDNA 5 architecture to ship in the second or third quarter of 2027, while others said they are more likely to ship in late 2027 or early 2028. This means that there could be three years between the launch of the Radeon RX 9070 XT and its successor.

The usual launch cycle, in which graphics cards are first launched on the market, followed by a refresh a year later and a successor two years later, is therefore a thing of the past. The reason for the delays is the extremely high demand for chips and DRAM from AI giants such as OpenAI – selling expensive server processors and GPUs brings more profit, and as global production capacities for computer chips are currently overloaded, it hardly makes sense for companies such as Nvidia and AMD to bring "cheap" gaming products onto the market and no longer produce as many expensive server chips.