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.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 currently ships with 2 GB GDDR7 modules, but even 3 GB modules have seen limited adoption due to their high cost. However, that could change soon. According to Weibo leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, memory manufacturers are reportedly planning 4 GB and 6 GB GDDR7 chips for a 2027 to 2028 window, a jump that could reshape how much VRAM budget and mid-range GPUs can carry without needing a wider memory bus. A 128-bit card using four memory packages currently tops out at 8 GB with today's 2 GB chips. Move to 4 GB chips and that same card could hit 16 GB, or 24 GB with 6 GB modules. Scale that up to a 256-bit interface with eight packages, and you're looking at 32 GB or 48 GB respectively, without touching the PCB layout or bus width. Of course, going the other way is possible too, a narrower memory bus combined with higher density, faster memory chips, can lead to similar bandwidth, with lower relative cost.

This would matter most at the low end, where narrow 128-bit buses have made generous VRAM capacities either awkward or expensive to pull off. Videocardz, citing supply chain sources, notes that today's 3 GB GDDR7 chips are already unusually expensive due to extreme demand, and that cost has reportedly contributed to delays around the rumored RTX 5050 9 GB and the RTX 50 Super refresh. If 4 GB chips end up cheaper to produce at scale, they could become the more practical choice for mainstream cards, while 6 GB modules might make more sense for workstation and other high-memory GPUs first. It's worth noting that the leaker's timeline only points to sometime in 2027 or 2028, so there's no confirmation this lines up with NVIDIA's RTX 60 series or AMD's next Radeon generation specifically.

Kopite7Kimi, a leaker with a strong track record on NVIDIA hardware, says the company's next-generation GeForce RTX 60-series based on the Rubin architecture is a 2028 product. "Unfortunately, GR20x is a product from 2028. That means they have postponed again," the leaker posted on X. Their earlier estimate was the second half of 2027, so this is another "delay," if you can even call it that. NVIDIA hasn't said anything official about RTX 60-series timing, so treat it as a rumor for now.

Interestingly, this new leak seems to align with what prominent leaker Kepler_L2 claimed a few days ago: that Rubin gaming GPUs would only arrive in 2028. It also goes against leaker Moore's Law Is Dead, who said about a week ago that an NVIDIA source told them gaming Rubin was greenlit for the first half of 2027. Two leakers against one doesn't settle anything, and we don't know who is right yet, but the 2028 timing does seem more likely given the current industry conditions. Of course, these plans can change before 2028, as the memory supply situation is currently very volatile, and hardware roadmaps are changing almost on a weekly basis.