No, the Nvidia RTX 5090 Ti GPU isn't coming out this year — here's why

• Rumor suggests Nvidia has a 'very high-end RTX 50' GPU in the works
• It could be an RTX 5090 Ti, or RTX Titan, arriving in Q3 of this year
• Nvidia producing a supercharged RTX 5090 seems very unlikely, though, for a number of reasons

A new rumor claims that Nvidia might have an RTX 5090 Ti in the pipeline, but I doubt that very much – if there is a new heavyweight GPU waiting in the wings, it's surely not one aimed at gamers.

VideoCardz noticed that French tech site Overclocking.com published this speculation, apparently after a lot of deliberation about whether to air it at all (understandably – and note that the site expresses its own disbelief about this purported plan of Nvidia's).

The rumor is that in Q3 of 2026 Nvidia is planning to launch a "very high-end RTX 50 series card", meaning either an RTX 5090 Ti, or maybe an RTX Titan to sit at the top of the GeForce range.

We're told that the design process and early work on manufacturing this graphics card is already underway.

According to Overclocking.com, five or six reliable sources – all from different companies (and indeed separate countries) – have insisted that this new RTX 5000 GPU is incoming. This follows similar chatter which the French site says it heard back at CES 2026, last month, but disregarded because it seemed too fanciful a notion given the RAM crisis.

Analysis: an RTX 5090 Ti seems very unlikely to say the least

Frankly, I find this rumor is still too much of a reach, certainly the contention that there's going to be an RTX 5090 Ti, which is one of the mentioned possibilities. This just doesn't make any sense.

For one thing, Nvidia has apparently canned any possible RTX 5000 Super refreshes for this year, and indeed any gaming graphics cards at all, if several reports elsewhere on the rumor mill are to be believed.

Why? Because video RAM is scarce – as is all memory these days – and therefore pricier, so consumer GPUs loaded up with VRAM like an RTX 5080 Super or 5070 Super would be a drain on Nvidia's RAM resources. That's memory which would be far better deployed with heavyweight AI GPUs, which are much more profitable – and an RTX 5090 Ti would surely be expected to load up with more VRAM than ever.

Also consider that the RTX 5090 itself is already stupidly pricey at retail, having suffered a painful bout of price inflation since 2026 began. So how much would an RTX 5090 Ti cost? And also bear in mind that the reason the 5090 is so pricey is because of supply limitations; so again, why would Nvidia bring out a Ti version in this climate?

On top of all these reasons is the simple truth that gamers don't really need an RTX 5090 Ti. Enabling the full loadout of cores on the GB202 chip (which powers the 5090) wouldn't be a huge jump in performance (around 10%), especially considering what cost that might come at (as already noted). Really, the RTX 5090 is plenty powerful for any PC gamer, anyway.

If this rumor is true, it will surely be an RTX Titan (which is floated as the other possibility here) or similar heavyweight model aimed at prosumers, not consumers or gamers. And given the VRAM situation, it seems unlikely that Nvidia would even bother taking this tack, as the French site admits – but seemingly, this is the current plan.

Even if we assume this is correct, and Nvidia is indeed exploring a design around such a top-end RTX 5000 board, there's no guarantee it will come to anything — these concepts can be toyed with and then abandoned relatively late in the day.

In summary, then, do not expect an RTX 5090 Ti for later this year – and I'm all too willing to believe the rumors that we won't get any new GeForce gaming GPUs from Nvidia at all in 2026.

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