Nvidia hasn't canceled RTX 5000 Super refreshes as previously rumored – but don't expect these GPUs anytime soon

• Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super refreshes are now rumored to arrive in Q3 2026
• A previous rumor that they were canceled has been denied by three separate sources
• These GPUs still remain a rumor themselves, with no concrete confirmation or info piped through to graphics card makers

Nvidia's RTX 5000 Super refreshes aren't canceled, but they won't be here until much later in 2026 than previously expected – or that's the latest rumor regarding these Blackwell graphics cards, at least.

VideoCardz flagged that Taiwanese tech site Benchlife claims that the rumored RTX 5080 Super, and RTX 5070 Ti Super plus RTX 5070 Super, aren't canceled as recent chatter from the grapevine suggested, but are just delayed (beyond earlier rumors of a Q1 2026 launch).

Benchlife believes that these Super GPUs are now destined to be launched in the third quarter of 2026 – or maybe late in the second quarter at a pinch, although that remains guesswork. As the tech site notes, Nvidia has not even mentioned these graphics cards to its manufacturing partners, so this is still the early stages for the products.

As the site further observes, given that there's been no official talk about these GPUs, even their existence remains a mere rumor.

HKEPC has also chimed in here with apparent word (add seasoning with all this) from a source at a third-party graphics card maker that Nvidia has said the RTX 5000 Super refreshes aren't canceled, but have been postponed to Q3 2026 (or sometime between July and the end of September). This report directly calls out Uniko's Hardware – the source of the cancelation rumor – as being wrong.

This comes on top of MegaSizeGPU, a well-known leaker on X, stating exactly the same thing, namely that the RTX 5000 Super graphics cards aren't canned, but are delayed to Q3 2026.

Analysis: RTX 6000 delay, too?

So, that's three separate reports of the cancellation rumor being incorrect, insisting that Nvidia has chosen to delay these graphics cards, not throw them out entirely. And of course, that makes sense – Nvidia always puts out a supercharged spin on a GPU range at some point in the middle of its lifespan as the reigning generation, so it'd be very odd if this didn't happen with Blackwell.

Especially as another theory – raised by MegaSizeGPU – is that Nvidia is in no rush to get its next-gen GeForce graphics cards out, and that RTX 6000 models may not be out in 2027 as expected, but could be pushed to 2028.

If that's the case, there's plenty of breathing room for an RTX 5000 Super refresh late next year – it'd pretty much be compulsory, of course, to get some fresh offerings out there into GPU land, if there's going to be a really long wait for RTX 6000.

It's entirely possible that while Uniko's Hardware may have got the wrong end of the stick with its cancellation rumor, the reasoning behind it – namely the scarcity of the necessary GDDR7 video RAM (3GB modules which are supposed to be used in the Super GPUs) – could still be on the money, and perhaps the root cause of the delay.

Whatever the case, a pretty clear picture is now painted of the earliest arrival for the RTX 5000 Super GPUs being July 2026 (or maybe June at a real push), or quite possibly later. Which still means that those who've perhaps been putting off buying an Nvidia GPU now, in the belief that new Super graphics cards are just around the corner, will be rethinking their purchasing strategy. In short, Black Friday may be a good time to get a solid deal on an Nvidia graphics card.

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