Nvidia reportedly planning to launch a high-end gaming graphics card sometime in late 2026

Earlier this month, a report said Nvidia has no plans to launch any new gaming GPU in 2026, not even the often-talked-about RTX 50 Super refresh. It was driven by Nvidia’s pivot towards datacenter/AI products and the ongoing memory shortage. However, Overclockers has heard otherwise from its sources. Apparently, at least one high-end SKU is planned to surface at around Q3 2026.

The report explicitly states it is not a part of the RTX 50 Super lineup. It supposedly sits above the RTX 5090 in hierarchy, implying it could launch as an RTX 5090 Ti. Not much is known about its specs, but a full, uncut GB203 chip with 24,064 CUDA cores (vs. 21,760 on the RTX 5090), might be the only way to go. A VRAM increase seems implausible because most gaming workloads realistically don’t need more than the 32 GB offered by a regular RTX 5090.

That said, there’s a good chance the putative RTX 5090 Ti might never see the light of day. For starters, the handful of extra CUDA cores might not translate into much of a performance uplift, and the extra power requirements might result in melted components—something that still plagues high-end Nvidia GPUs. Its last-gen counterpart, the RTX 4090 Ti, never materialised, and there’s no reason for Nvidia to bring back Titan-class cards, since the competition is still catching up with its xx80-class SKUs.