Rumors of an RTX GeForce 5050 9GB variant began circulating several months ago, but according to a new report, it could be dead in the water. It was only a few months ago that rumors popped up suggesting that NVIDIA, a company once known for producing consumer graphics cards, was planning to offer variants of both its RTX GeForce 5050 and 5060 GPUs featuring 9 GB of memory. VideoCardz has recently reached out to NVIDIA AIB partners who’ve reported they have had no new details regarding these potential product launches. Meanwhile, information leaker MEGAsizeGPU has indicated that the RTX 5050 9GB is either cancelled or permanently delayed.
I think it's canceled. Or permanently delayed. They reissued the 3060 12G for the same segment, so the 5050 9G will be meaningless for a while.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) June 26, 2026
As mentioned in the social media post, NVIDIA has revived its RTX GeForce 3060 12 GB graphics card, something which was reported on a few weeks back here. It was always questionable how much more performance could be gained in switching from 8 GB to 9 GB of VRAM, so it’s probably no big loss if the 9 GB variant never sees the light of day. However, it’s now been well over a year since NVIDIA launched any new consumer GPUs, and we’re at a point where typically refresh models, aka SUPER, are normally in full swing. That being said, the effects of the rampocalypse are well known, and any product needing DRAM/NAND is looking at major price increases, as seen with the recent launch of Valve’s Steam Machine, and are expected to affect any decision-making from manufacturers. So far, all three GPU manufacturers have failed to release any new consumer products in 2026 and may not choose to do so until late 2027 at the earliest.
The scariest part of it all is that, according to a recent statement from a Lenovo exec claiming that we’ll likely never see memory prices return to normal, or at least not until well into the next decade, it probably won’t matter when NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel launch a new consumer GPU, as it will likely be at a price point most cannot afford or choose to pay.