Nvidia is reportedly postponing its GeForce RTX 50 ‘Super’ refresh as company leadership shifts scarce cutting edge GDDR7 memory toward higher margin artificial intelligence accelerators instead of gaming GPUs. The GeForce RTX 50 ‘Super’ refresh was originally scheduled for an announcement at CES 2026, with shipping in Q1 or Q2 of 2026, but internal decisions in December deemed the required GDDR7 configuration too valuable to allocate to consumer graphics cards.
The canceled ‘Super’ series was designed around denser GDDR7 memory modules, offering 3 GB of capacity per chip to boost the memory configurations of the standard GeForce RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5080. Under the original plan, the RTX 5070 SUPER was planned with an upgrade to offer 18 GB, while the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER and RTX 5080 SUPER would each provide 24 GB of GDDR7 memory. These specifications aimed to differentiate the refresh from the base models with larger frame buffers tailored to modern high resolution gaming workloads.
Nvidia’s artificial intelligence GPU portfolio, including products such as the RTX PRO 6000 ‘Blackwell’ and ‘Rubin CPX’, also depends on the same high density GDDR7 memory, motivating the shift in allocation away from gaming products. By prioritizing enterprise and data center accelerators that command premium pricing, Nvidia is expected to leave gamers relying on the regular GeForce RTX 50 series for the foreseeable future, with limited supply relief and continued inflated prices compared to what a ‘Super’ refresh could have provided.
