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Tom’s Guide

Technology

Jason England

I’ve got bad news, PC gamers: Nvidia RTX 50 SUPER series may have been scrapped, and current GPUs look set to become more expensive

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A lot of PC gamers have been holding out for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series GPUs, which were reportedly set to launch early next year… Notice how I said “were” there? Well, I’ve got some (rumored) bad news.

According to Uniko’s Hardware, Nvidia has cancelled its SUPER cards because of “the crazy shortage” stopping the ability to bring these to market. On top of that, the shortage could raise prices of the current best graphics cards, and make them “more expensive very soon.”

[rumor]due to the crazy shortage recently, 3gb gddr7 cant make it to the consumer market for desktop, thus the super series is cancelled.and the current models are expected to be more expensive very soon, because of the increasing cost of 2gb gddr7. pic.twitter.com/yMSMj1MjqJNovember 7, 2025

All about GDDR7

The secret sauce to RTX 50 series GPUs (minus the 5050) has been the use of much faster GDDR7 video memory. This has increased the bandwidth and drastically sped up the ability to deliver higher-resolution graphics, as well as delivering much quicker AI performance too.

That’s all fair and good, but one of the common complaints you see flying around is that some of the range packs quite a small amount of it. Because sometimes it doesn’t matter how fast the video memory is — if there isn’t enough to hold the ever-increasing demands of GPU-intensive AAA games like Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, then you’ll run into limitations.

I found out as much when testing the RTX 5070 with 12GB and the RTX 5060 with 8GB. Well, the RTX 50 SUPER series, Nvidia’s fix was reportedly a simple one: switch out the current 2GB GDDR7 modules on the GPU and switch them for 3GB ones. That would be an effective 50% uplift across the board.

GPU	RTX 5080 SUPER	RTX 5080	RTX 5070 Ti SUPER	RTX 5070 Ti	RTX 5070 SUPER	RTX 5070
Price	$999-1,199	$999	$749-$799	$749	$549-$599	$549
CUDA Cores	10752	10752	8960	8960	6400	6144
Video Memory	24GB GDDR7	16GB GDDR7	24GB GDDR7	16GB GDDR7	18GB GDDR7	12GB GDDR7
TGP	415 Watts	360 Watts	350 Watts	300 Watts	275 Watts	250 Watts

The rumors and leaks pointed heavily towards this happening, but these 3GB GDDR7 models are reportedly in extremely short supply, with little hope of them reaching the desktop consumer market.

Instead, these chip modules are possibly being reserved for different uses, and Uniko’s guess is you’ll see them in RTX 5090 laptops and the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU.

Driving up prices

More concerning than this is the question of what will happen to the current crop of RTX 50 series GPUs? Given the recent shortages, it looks like the cost of the 2GB GDDR7 modules is going up too, which means “current models are expected to be more expensive very soon.”

Given this is a rumor, we can’t say with 100% certainty whether there’s any truth to this. But what this does pose is a small window of opportunity to those who were looking to upgrade. Right now, most RTX 50 series cards are either at MSRP or slightly below, and given the macroeconomics of the current situation, they may not stay that way for long.

So I have one piece of advice: think about buying now. Of course, there are certain criteria to hit with this — namely if you already have an RTX 40 series card, you don’t need the latest GPU. But if you’re on anything older and you’ve been holding out for SUPER, if this rumor holds water, this could be your final chance to buy before costs go up.