Nvidia apparently has no plans to launch any next-gen GeForce GPUs in 2027, according to often-reliable tech leaker Kepler_L2, meaning we’ll have to wait over a year for the RTX 6090. However, AMD is reportedly gearing up to launch a single RDNA 5 GPU by the end of 2027, with the rest of the new Radeon range following in 2028.
In a thread on the Anandtech forums, Kepler_L2 stated that “AT2 is the only GPU getting released next year. Everything else from both AMD and Nvidia is 2028.” AT2 refers to Alpha Trion 2 (yes, like the Autobot), which is rumoured to be the codename for AMD’s upcoming next-gen Radeon GPUs. Previous leaks have pointed to AT2 having up to 64 compute units, just like the Radeon RX 9070 XT today, but based on the newer architecture.
That’s it, though, by the looks of it. Kepler_L2 also addressed recent rumours about the RTX 6090 launching in 2027 after all, which were recently shared in a video by YouTube tech leaker Moore’s Law is Dead. “He’s wrong,” said Kepler_L2 to another Anandtech forum user asking about it.
But what about the RTX 5000 Super range? Aren’t we at least going to get that in 2027? Nope, not by the looks of it. Another regular tech leaker, MEGAsizeGPU, answered a question on X from Uniko’s Hardware about the rumoured lineup of GPUs. “I am not optimistic about it now,” was the response. “It may not be released at all.”
None of this should come as a huge surprise, given the sorry state of the DRAM market at the moment. With all the main memory makers shifting most of their capacity to making HBM for AI data centres, rather than good old fashioned DDR and GDDR chips, there’s very little supply of RAM for new graphics cards now.
The rumoured RTX 5000 Super cards was supposed to offer more VRAM than their predecessors, but it would now be extraordinarily expensive to manufacture these cards at scale. Even getting the aforementioned AMD AT2 GPU out the door in 2027 might be tough if the memory market is still in such a grim state at the end of that year.
In addition to AT2, AMD is also rumoured to be working on an extremely powerful RDNA 5 chip, codenamed AT0, which could go up against the RTX 6090. There are also rumours about AT3 and AT4 flavours at the cheaper end of the scale.
Basically, it looks as though the gaming GPU market is now going to be on hold for over a year. Let’s hope the PC component market is starting to look rosier at the end of 2027. In the meantime, check out our guide to buying the best GPU for your needs if you want to upgrade now.
