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Your GeForce RTX 50 SUPER upgrade may be on hold

RTX 50 SUPER delayed rumors suggest NVIDIA’s midcycle refresh may not land soon, leaving buyers stuck with pricey, scarce RTX 5000 cards. Here’s how to decide whether to buy now or wait.

RTX 50 SUPER delayed talk is back, and it changes the math for anyone trying to time a GPU upgrade. Rumors from Gazlog say NVIDIA has postponed the GeForce RTX 5000 SUPER series indefinitely, even as current RTX 5000 cards stay scarce and expensive.

None of this is confirmed by NVIDIA. But if the refresh really is on ice, ask yourself if you can live with today’s pricing and availability, or whether you should hold off longer.

Some of the same chatter also claims the RTX 5000 series could remain the main lineup until the RTX 6000 series arrives in late 2027. If that timeline is right, buyers may be stuck navigating this generation for a while.

The expected appeal of the SUPER refresh was simple, more VRAM on key models. The material says the plan was 24GB of GDDR7 for the RTX 5080 SUPER and RTX 5070 Ti SUPER, plus 18GB for the RTX 5070.

That matters because memory limits can show up fast once you crank textures, move to higher resolutions, or juggle gaming with creative apps. But the same source ties the delay to rising memory prices, which makes a VRAM-first update harder to deliver at a sane cost.

The bigger immediate problem is what’s already happening on store pages. There’s currently extreme shortages across the RTX 5000 stack, with pricing jumping from the RTX 5090 down through the RTX 5060 Ti.

Sources say NVIDIA will notify board partners of a full-scale price increase after February 2026. If that plays out, even improved stock might not translate into better deals, and the baseline could simply move higher.

If you need a GPU soon, set a hard maximum you’ll pay, then stick to it. In a tight market, it’s easy to chase “in stock” and end up regretting the markup.

If you don’t need to buy, waiting is defensible, just don’t anchor your plan to a refresh with no firm window. Watch for real signals like broader inventory stabilization and sustained street-price drops on the cards that are already out.

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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind. 

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