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Nvidia Abandons Gaming GPU Roadmap for Data Center Focus
Nvidia's gaming GPU release pattern has held for nearly three decades: a new architecture roughly every 18 to 24 months, usually accompanied by a mid-cycle Super or Ti refresh. The RTX 40 series launched in 2022, the RTX 50 series followed in January 2025, and under the historical cadence a Super refresh or an early RTX 60 tease should have landed sometime in 2026.
However, Nvidia skipped releasing any new gaming GPUs in 2026. The reason isn't a design failure or manufacturing hiccup at TSMC, but rather that Nvidia's engineering and wafer allocation are being funneled into data center AI accelerators and AI-first PC hardware.
Nvidia introduced RTX Spark, a dual-die