Nvidia RTX 60 series reportedly greenlit for early 2027 launch

Nvidia's next generation of GeForce graphics cards could arrive sooner than some previous rumours suggested. According to Moore's Law is Dead, the Rubin-based RTX 60 series is currently targeting a launch in the first half of 2027, after reportedly being delayed from an original 2026 launch window. Nvidia allegedly pushed the launch back to free up as much TSMC manufacturing capacity as possible for its highly lucrative AI products.

The delay apparently does not extend all the way into the second half of 2027 and potentially early 2028. Tom's source claims that the RTX 60 series was given the "green light" several months ago. Nvidia supposedly has concrete internal milestones leading towards a 2027 launch, although the source cautioned that plans could still change. Previous rumours have generally pointed towards the second half of 2027 for Nvidia's next gaming GPU generation.

Exactly what that gaming implementation looks like remains unclear. Sources were reluctant to discuss the flagship configuration, but gave the impression that something unusual is happening with its physical design. Possibilities such as a move to a 2 nm manufacturing process or a chiplet-based flagship were raised in the video, although there is a good chance Nvidia will reserve its TSMC N2 capacity for AI products and keep the RTX 60 series on 3NP instead.

The apparent 2027 launch window would also put gaming Rubin on a collision course with AMD's RDNA 5 architecture. Recent reports have similarly placed next-generation Radeon GPUs somewhere in 2027, but one says we may have to wait until 2028. Moore's Law is Dead claims documents it has seen suggest RDNA 5 could deliver an unusually large generational performance uplift over RDNA 4 at the high end. An earlier rumour stated AMD plans to keep lower-end SKUs affordable by substituting conventional GDDR VRAM with LPDDR memory.

Unfortunately, there is no telling what improvements the RTX 60 series will bring over Blackwell. If DLSS 5 is anything to go by, Nvidia could lean increasingly heavily on software-driven gains as extracting more raw performance becomes increasingly difficult without pushing power targets even higher. Doing so would also risk worsening the power connector problems that have already affected current-generation RTX 50 series graphics cards, as well as some last-generation models.

That leaves us with a bigger question: where is the RTX 50 Super lineup? An earlier report stated they’re gathering dust in warehouses because Nvidia and distributors can’t zero-in on a price. Will it be unveiled alongside the RTX 60 series as a ‘cheaper’ alternative? Has it been mothballed for good? Will it get a stealth release when nobody is looking? Only time will tell.