Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026
AMD's RDNA 4 focus for 2026 will reportedly be one GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB
Sounds like current hardware is going to stay current for some time.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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I'm a bit sad since PC gaming is a bit of hobby of mine. Geeking out over new hardware is fun. Throwing a reasonable amount of disposable income at the computer for perfomance gains was fun.
But tbh were at a point in time were hardware upgrades get less and less relevant. I could still use the now 7(?) year old AMD 5700XT i used to have and be perfectly happy to this date. Most games still look fantastic at low to medium settings. 1080p at 40fps doesnt diminish fun in most single player games. The majority of e-sport titles run on a potato anyway. 8GB Vram is still relevant for better or worse. Missing hardware features like raytracing in Indiana Jones or meshshaders(?) in Alan Wake 2 can be circumvented with a bit of fiddling. Sure, badly optimized UE5 slop is a bit annoying.
Besides that we have access to a fantastic backlog. eg The Witcher 3 still looks fantastic after 11 years. I just recently played through a 9 year old Watch Dogs 2 which could release today and nobody would complain about its graphics. Even without access to new releases i would never run out of games i still want to play until the bombs drop.
So personally i dont really mind these current market changes. Like fine. I keep my 5 year old 16GB card. Whatever. Instead i use that money to touch more grass or something. idk
Monopoly capitalism doing monopoly capitalism things. In theory, it would be the government's job to prevent the formation of monopolies. Except they stopped doing that long ago. Yet another thing we can thank Reagan for.
Not if Nvidia's giant incestuous money bubble pops and they run out of cash and have nothing to sell to consumer markets...