Tuesday, October 20th 2026
Rumor: NVIDIA RTX 6060 May Be Years Away, and Possibly Slower Than the PS6
Anyone holding out for an affordable next-gen NVIDIA card might have a long wait. Hardware leaker Kepler_L2 claims on NeoGAF that the GeForce RTX 6060 will "launch much later," adding that, based on recent trends, he doubts it will even match the PlayStation 6. He was replying to a forum member who argued the PS6 would compete with the RTX 6060, in the same thread where he claimed the console's RAM and storage alone cost over $680. Kepler didn't give an actual date, and the 2029 figure going around seems to be an extrapolation. Both Kepler and kopite7kimi have placed NVIDIA's Rubin-based RTX 60 series in 2028, and the x60 cards usually trail the flagship by a few months. The RTX 5060 arrived under four months after the RTX 5090, while the RTX 4060 took over eight months to follow the RTX 4090.
With a flagship launch around mid-2028 or later, that could push the RTX 6060 into 2029. That said, the "much later" comment seems to be relative to the PS6, which is reportedly targeting late 2027, so the exact timing is still anyone's guess. Kepler didn't say why, but the ongoing memory shortage looks like the obvious suspect. NVIDIA reportedly postponed its RTX 50 SUPER refresh earlier this year to prioritize AI products that use the same GDDR7 memory, and the company recently admitted that RTX 5090 supply is tight. Of course, NVIDIA hasn't announced the RTX 60 series officially yet, so treat this as a rumor. Anyone looking to buy a new NVIDIA GPU should probably expect the current RTX 50 lineup to stick around for quite a while.
Source:
Kepler_L2 on NeoGAF
With a flagship launch around mid-2028 or later, that could push the RTX 6060 into 2029. That said, the "much later" comment seems to be relative to the PS6, which is reportedly targeting late 2027, so the exact timing is still anyone's guess. Kepler didn't say why, but the ongoing memory shortage looks like the obvious suspect. NVIDIA reportedly postponed its RTX 50 SUPER refresh earlier this year to prioritize AI products that use the same GDDR7 memory, and the company recently admitted that RTX 5090 supply is tight. Of course, NVIDIA hasn't announced the RTX 60 series officially yet, so treat this as a rumor. Anyone looking to buy a new NVIDIA GPU should probably expect the current RTX 50 lineup to stick around for quite a while.
57 Comments on Rumor: NVIDIA RTX 6060 May Be Years Away, and Possibly Slower Than the PS6
If you haven't already done so, get a decent card that plays today's games and call it a day. Progress in graphics is going to slow right down because everyone is hellbent on throwing 110% of their available resources into AI slop that you have to rent from their cloud.
6060 = 5090 (with MFG 20x! no wait... 50x!)
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3.5GB of VRAM with RTX Neural Texture Hair Compression Rendering Resolution
The more you buy, the more you save!
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If the whole series is nowhere in sight till late 2027 or 2028, and the whole comment is at best a fairly accurate leakers opinion. What a time to be alive.
I wouldn't mind GPU's launching every 3-4 years, but cards across the stack need sufficient vram, need to be more than 10% uplifts than the previous gen in raw performance, it would also require AAA game companies to optimize the UE5 slop instead of forcing upscaling and AI frames.
That is some competitive level virtue signalling.
They really did a fantastic job optimizing that beautiful Engine for high FPS and zero stuttering!
And who cares if the BS6 outperforms it? Even if it does, that won't make people just shift to console.
That is some competitive level corporate glazing.Use something besides a 4090, turn off upscaling and frame gen and you'll see the problem.
this is becoming my thing now. If you know you know.
If you buy a such a shit "the worst gpu generation ever realased" in such a volumes aviously at least in theory the next gen shold be a disaster.
Once i said..... Even then red flags were everywhere.
They're going to sell to whom pays them the most, and if there isn't enough for everyone, they will stop selling the least profitable ones, you would do the same in their situation, the RTX PRO 5500 uses the exact same chip as the RTX 5090
The recommendation of buying just what you need today has always been the best strategy, not because of AI, but the ever increasing diminishing returns performance/price the higher you go, and that games will not make another big jump until next gen consoles get games designed just for them
8 gb of vram isn't all we are getting. Besides the 5060 every other gpu has more than 8...what are you talking about?It's not just companies. Everyone does. You want to buy something, youll buy it from the shop that has the lowest price, not the one that has the highest (all else being equal of course). You want to sell something (your used PC parts), youll sell it for the highest price, not the lowest.
Nvidia could easily sell both the RTX pro cards, and consumer versions, I'm sure they could use some of their trillions to fund TSMC building another fab, or they could simply buy more fab space.
Anyone who bought a card within the past few years is very lucky, however anyone who wants or needs a new GPU now has to consider current pricing or is in for a long wait until next gen GPU's launch. The diminishing returns in performance increases is due to how greedy these companies are, AI is definitely causing progress to slow down significantly.