AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may launch after Nvidia's RTX 60 series in late 2027

[midian182]

Rumor mill: If you're a gamer looking forward to the next generation of graphics cards, be prepared for a long wait. With no GeForce RTX 50 Super series, Nvidia isn't expected to release a new consumer GPU until the second half of 2027. And according to a leaker, AMD's RDNA 5 competition won't land until after the RTX 60 series.

It's not a good time for anyone building a PC. Massive demand from AI companies and data center builders has led to DRAM, NAND, and HBM manufacturing capacity being sold out in advance. It's also affecting graphics cards because GDDR memory shares manufacturing capacity with other types of DRAM and manufacturers are prioritizing AI products.

The memory shortage is being blamed for the rumored timeline of Nvidia's RTX 6000 cards launch. If, as many claim, the cards get here in the second half of 2027, it will mean a 30-month gap between generations – longer than any modern GPU-series release.

We used to have Nvidia's RTX Super line to hold gamers over until the next-gen architectures arrived, but the memory crisis means those cards have been delayed indefinitely. From Team Green's point of view, not only are memory costs too high to warrant a Super-series release, but there's going to be no direct competition from AMD until 2027, which leads us to the latest rumor.

According to Kepler_L2, a long-time leaker with a good track record, AMD will launch its RDNA 5-based consumer graphics cards after Nvidia's RTX 6000 in H2 2027.

Kepler writes that the reason AMD is launching after Nvidia is the latter's margins. The leaker explains that Nvidia could counter almost anything AMD releases by pricing its competing products the same or cheaper.

RDNA 5 GPUs are rumored to be built on TSMC's N3P process, offering potential efficiency and performance gains over RDNA 4. There are also claims of much larger flagship dies with up to 96 compute units (12,288 cores), along with new hardware features that enable better ray-tracing performance and AI-driven rendering. Some say AMD will release products that compete with Nvidia at the high end – I.e., the RTX 6090 – this time around.

A major influence on these rumored release windows and prices will be the state of the memory market come late 2027. Hopefully, things will be better than they are right now, though companies such as Micron have warned that the issues will last beyond 2026.

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AMD RDNA 5 GPUs may launch after Nvidia's RTX 60 series in late 2027

 

[Rapob]

Who the hell "says" AMD will release a RTX 6090 competitor next generation? Last time I heard AMD speak about high-end, they left the market to focus on low to mid-end.

RDNA 5 sounds like another small RDNA refinement ... were AMD not suppoesd to release UDNA, "a true next gen, build ground up architecture" next?

 

[ScottSoapbox]

Just an excuse to delay GPUs until the fab capacity catches up.

AMD could launch first and adjust prices IF Nvidia uncut them on price (which is highly unlikely given their love of high margins).

 

[VaRmeNsI]

Doesn't really matter when AMD release because everyone will buy Nvidia anyways.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Doesn't really matter when AMD release because everyone will buy Nvidia anyways.

AMD client and gaming saw a 73% jump to $4 billion last quarter alone.

but sure, doom and gloom, you'll never see AMD, you can only have a 6060 and youll like it, ece ece.

 

[guillejp]

Reminds me of the phrase "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
I'd love them to push back and gain some GPU market share but oh well.

 

[SRB]

AMD released chiplet based 7900XTX, while it was good, Nividia has been working on software rather than hardware, and AMD doesn't have to resources. RDNA 5 is supposed to go back to the chiplet route to reduce costs and improve yields. And hopefully, do something with efficiency, before the market starts selling cases for dual PSU's, one for the pc, one for the GPU.

As long as reviewers and Nvidia continue to discount raster performance in favor of software, I'm not sure AMD can do anything much about market share.

 

[godrilla]

Reminds me of the phrase "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
I'd love them to push back and gain some GPU market share but oh well.

Yeah so we are looking at 7800X3D/3090 or 4090 9800x3d paired with 5090 and zen 6 x3d flagship cpu giving free advertisements for Nvidia when paired with AMD's gaming cpus. They can't even paper launch a gpu for a perceived crown advantage to pair with their cpus correctly.

Update notice Nvidia's vendors are not stopping from releasing $4000 /1000 watt limited run gpus for guaranteed revenue.

 

[James321]

AMD never fails to shoot themselves in the foot.

 

[unoficialoficial]

Probably they will launch new generation of GPUs when they find sufficient fast memory available at a price that doesn't negatively impact consumer demand (taxes reductions related to expenses are not a factor in this market). So, the timing depends almost entirely on memory availability and cost. If memory becomes available tomorrow, the launch will follow suit; conversely, if availability only comes decades later, the launch will be postponed accordingly.

 

[Beerfloat]

Oh bother, 2 more years of AMD GPU Jehovas bum rushing any emerging Internet discussion as they clamber over each other just to be the first to get to preach about how progress is bad.

 

[agentnate009]

Reminds me of the phrase "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
I'd love them to push back and gain some GPU market share but oh well.

They have more market share than Nvidia, what GPU and CPU is powering the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that have sold millions upon millions of units? This wasn't an opportunity they missed, but go ahead and think they did because you didn't get your $400 flagship GPU that eats the latest games for breakfast...

 

[Theinsanegamer]

They have more market share than Nvidia, what GPU and CPU is powering the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that have sold millions upon millions of units? This wasn't an opportunity they missed, but go ahead and think they did because you didn't get your $400 flagship GPU that eats the latest games for breakfast...

This argument is so dumb....did you forget who powers the Switch (psst...it's Nvidia!)? Or that the switch, now the best selling console or all time, has outsold the Xbox series x/s and the PlayStation combined?

So what was that about market share again?

 

[AnilD]

We’ve officially reached the era where GPUs are no longer for gamers, they’re just AI accelerators that accidentally have HDMI ports. A 30-month gap between generations with no Super refresh is wild. Nvidia really looked at the market and said why rush when AI companies will buy literally anything with HBM at enterprise margins. Meanwhile, enjoy your 2023 card.

 

[daffy duck]

We’ve officially reached the era where GPUs are no longer for gamers, they’re just AI accelerators that accidentally have HDMI ports. A 30-month gap between generations with no Super refresh is wild. Nvidia really looked at the market and said why rush when AI companies will buy literally anything with HBM at enterprise margins. Meanwhile, enjoy your 2023 card.

They did not need the Super refresh anyway. AMD offered little to worry them. They look at the sales and despite the noise AMD is still a spec in their rear-vision mirror. AMD does not care, Nvidia does not care, Intel never cared.

 

[godrilla]

Speaking of ram shortages Samsung just announced that their TVs are also going to in price. Thanks to ai. Source: YouTube https://share.google/TuPBG3o2UYK8e3vkC
FYI.

 

[Stoly]

They have more market share than Nvidia, what GPU and CPU is powering the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that have sold millions upon millions of units? This wasn't an opportunity they missed, but go ahead and think they did because you didn't get your $400 flagship GPU that eats the latest games for breakfast...

which GPU powers the switch/switch 2?
At some point nvidia had like 90% market share.

 

[scavengerspc]

Doesn't that kind of make sense for AMD and Nvidia? Wait out the ram "shortage".

 

[guillejp]

They have more market share than Nvidia, what GPU and CPU is powering the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that have sold millions upon millions of units? This wasn't an opportunity they missed, but go ahead and think they did because you didn't get your $400 flagship GPU that eats the latest games for breakfast...

You know that the discussion is about discreet cards.

 

[abactuon]

Very good 1080p monitor and don't update anything yet.

 

[Rapob]

which GPU powers the switch/switch 2?
At some point nvidia had like 90% market share.

Nintendo almost begged Nvidia to use TEGRA. AMD had (and still don't have) nothing that even comes close in perf/watt. They went with Nvidia again with Switch 2 for backwards comp and DLSS support.

Nvidia still have +90% of the gaming GPU market.

RDNA 4 / Radeon 9000 changed very litttle in terms of marketshare due to AMD not really interrested in producing enough chips. Margins are higher on CPUs and APUs. Especially for AMD which needs low prices to even sell. No-one would pick an AMD GPU is price was on par with Nvidia or higher. People buy AMD GPUs because they are cheaper, and AMD mostly sell cheap GPUs.

AMD is CPU/APU first. GPUs are 2nd and they would rather be competitive in AI/Enterprise than gaming when it comes to GPU market. AMD has miniscule earnings on gaming dGPUs, go check their full 2025 financial report if in doubt.

AMD could for sure grab more GPU marketshare, if they bothered. Especially after FSR 4 came out but they don't really care much. TSMC output is limited.

AMD bought ATi to get the knowledge for APUs and iGPUs mostly.
AMD is a CPU company first and you can't expect them to compete with Nvidia, which is GPU first.

AMD could sell 9070 at 399 and 9070 XT at 499 if they wanted to grab alot more marketshare but they don't want to do low margin GPUs, eating away at their TSMC output.

Intel is almost a bigger threat for AMD in the GPU space, than Nvidia. Because Intel is coming for AMDs prime segment, low to mid-end. Intel has like 1% marketshare now. Might be 5% in a few years and that is like half of what AMD has today.

Nvidia don't care for low-end market at all. Extremely low magins. They focus on mid-end and up and completely dominate the high-end market, where massive margins are possible (due to no competition). 9070 XT is AMD best and it can't even beat 5070 Ti, not in raster, not in features (upscaling/FG/MFG), not in ray tracing and especially not in path tracing + Nvidia have higher resell value and uses less power, so most won't buy 9070 XT unless it is at least 25% cheaper than 5070 Ti.

AMD officially left high-end gaming GPUs with Radeon 9000. RDNA 4 is low to mid-end stuff. 9070 XT is upper mid. In some games, 7900 XTX beats 9070 XT, so AMD went backwards. FSR 4 and improved RT perf, is the most important thing RDNA 4 delivered. It was AMDs prime focus with current gen.

 

[PierreJG]

Who the hell "says" AMD will release a RTX 6090 competitor next generation? Last time I heard AMD speak about high-end, they left the market to focus on low to mid-end.

RDNA 5 sounds like another small RDNA refinement ... were AMD not suppoesd to release UDNA, "a true next gen, build ground up architecture" next?

Like everyone else, you kinda missed AMDs keynote with the 9xxx series. They never said they will compete with Nvidias 5xxx series. They said they will compete vs the 4xxx series but by suprise, the 9xxx series was faster than expected. I would rather pay 17k in my currency for a 9070XT than 50k+ for a 5090. Hell even the 5080 is half the price of a 5090 here.

Personally the whole AMD vs Nvida and AMD vs Intel is getting boring. It is 2026, who cares? you buy what you can afford. You can afford a 5090, all power to you. You can afford a 9070XT, the same. If you crap on another company that is on you as 90% people won't care about your opinion or comment ^^. I am IT, I stay Neutral regardless if I like a product or not.

 

[scavengerspc]

Personally the whole AMD vs Nvida and AMD vs Intel is getting boring. It is 2026, who cares? you buy what you can afford. You can afford a 5090, all power to you.

That is the only thing I disagree with in your post.

There comes a time when, regardless of personal finances, it gets to a point where you just start feeling like a fool and a complete sucker.

 

[Rapob]

Like everyone else, you kinda missed AMDs keynote with the 9xxx series. They never said they will compete with Nvidias 5xxx series. They said they will compete vs the 4xxx series but by suprise, the 9xxx series was faster than expected. I would rather pay 17k in my currency for a 9070XT than 50k+ for a 5090. Hell even the 5080 is half the price of a 5090 here.

Personally the whole AMD vs Nvida and AMD vs Intel is getting boring. It is 2026, who cares? you buy what you can afford. You can afford a 5090, all power to you. You can afford a 9070XT, the same. If you crap on another company that is on you as 90% people won't care about your opinion or comment ^^. I am IT, I stay Neutral regardless if I like a product or not.

Radeon 9000 was not really faster than expected, RTX 5000 was just slower than expected, and close to RTX 4000 series. Only 5090 moved the needle from 4090. 4090 beats 5080.

Why even compare 9070 XT to a 5090? Mid-end vs Entusiast tier. Makes no sense.

9070 XT don't even beat 5070 Ti which costs pretty much the same or close in most countries. However, 5070 Ti has way better features (DLSS, DLAA, DLDSR, MFG etc.) with much broader game support and alot higher resell value due to much higher demand and 5070 Ti also uses less power and generally runs cooler and quieter.

AMD has no answer to 5080 and is years away from matching 5090.

AMD can't even match 4090 from 2022 yet, which is the card I own, after like 4 years - AMD won't deliver performance like this anytime soon either. Expect late 2027 or 2028 for AMDs next gen stuff.

AMD left high-end GPU market officially. They are not making high-end parts in the GPU space anymore. Nothing about Radeon 9000 / RDNA 4 is high-end - small chips on small busses with just 8-16GB VRAM.

At best 9070 XT is upper mid-end but 5070 Ti is the overall better solution and almost same price. TCO will be better with the 5070 Ti. Less power usage, money saved, higher resell value, money regained, meanwhile you will have a card that does better in rasterization, ray tracing and especially path tracing which no AMD GPU can do yet + 5-10 times as high support of DLSS/DLAA/MFG

+ Features like RTX HDR which will transform SDR games on HDR monitors.


Well, fact is I am neutral when it comes to brands. I am using AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU, because that is the best these days.

9800X3D at 5.5 GHz @ -25 UV
32GB DDR5 at 6400/CL28, 2 DIMMs for optimal perf
4090 with UV/OC with about 8-10% gained over stock, at lower wattage than stock

AMD is a CPU company first. They make good CPUs, the best actually these days. In terms of GPUs, they are mid.

 

[agentnate009]

This argument is so dumb....did you forget who powers the Switch (psst...it's Nvidia!)? Or that the switch, now the best selling console or all time, has outsold the Xbox series x/s and the PlayStation combined?

So what was that about market share again?

Xbox One (AMD) - about 58 million
PS4 (AMD) - 117.2 million
Xbox Series (AMD) - 28.3 million
PS5 (AMD) - 84.2 million

AMD console total - 287,700,000

AMD discreet GPUs sold 2015 - 2024 per Jon Peddie - 101.45 million

AMD grand total - 389,150,000

Nintendo Switch - 154 million
Nintendo Switch 2 - 10.36 million as of Sep 2025

Nvidia portable total - 164,360,000

Nvidia discreet GPUs sold 2015 - 2024 per Jon Peddie - 289.82 million

Nvidia grand total - 454,180,000

If one does not factor in discreet, AMD has soundly beaten Nvidia in sales, but with discreet factored in, Nvidia takes a strong lead, but not as sizable as you were tryi8ng to make it sound. Even though the Switch may be the best selling "console", both the Xbox One and PS4 combined have outsold it.