RTX 60 Reportedly Delayed to 2028 as AI Chips Take Priority
NVIDIA’s Rubin-based RTX 60 series is reportedly facing the company’s most severe disruption to its release cadence in nearly three decades, and the cause is said to be commercial prioritization around wafer and memory capacity rather than any technical obstacle. The GeForce generation was originally planned to appear in 2026, but that schedule has been pushed back repeatedly as demand for AI compute continues to squeeze consumer graphics production. Reports now point to a 2028 launch window, with entry-level models potentially arriving even later.
According to the source material, reports from February 2026 confirmed that NVIDIA planned to release no new gaming GPUs for the entire year, which the article describes as a first in the company’s decades-long product history. Hopes then shifted to the first half of 2027, with Moore’s Law is Dead reporting that the Rubin gaming cards had received an internal green light and were targeting that window. That timeline did not hold, and the schedule has since moved again.
In September 2026 the picture changed once more, as well-known leaker Kopite7Kimi stated that the GR20x chip family is a 2028 product, meaning it had been delayed again. That claim was corroborated by an independent report from Kepler_L2. Kepler_L2 further suggested that supply constraints could push mainstream options such as the RTX 6060 all the way to 2029, an unwelcome prospect for budget-minded buyers waiting on affordable upgrades.
NVIDIA is currently directing advanced-node wafers toward data center AI chips. The Rubin-based Vera Rubin server products have been described by the company as its fastest-growing product ever, with quarterly revenue expectations already in the 20 billion US dollar range. Data center accelerators reportedly carry gross margins of roughly 75 percent, making each wafer far more profitable than consumer GPUs. In what the source calls a zero-sum competition for capacity, gaming graphics cards have been systematically deprioritized. The silicon is reportedly ready; it is simply queued behind more lucrative orders. For enthusiasts, that is cold comfort — but it does clarify that the wait is a business decision, not a technical failure.
