The dark age of gamers has a glimpse back.
Rumor NVIDIA is set to cut its GeForce RTX 50 Series screen card capacity by 30-40% in the first half of 2026 compared to the early 2025, mainly due not to slump sales, but to a crisis of memory shortages, or DRAM worldwide, both GDDR6, GDDR7 and DDR5, which have been scrambled for resources by the AI industry to rapidly soar costs.
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This news came from Board Channels and BenchLife warning that the crisis had resulted in NVIDIA needing to adjust its business strategy, preferring to rock its limited resources to the production of GPUs for AI and Data Centers that were several times more profitable than for gaming screen cards.
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The bad news that followed was that plans to launch the RTX 50 Super model that had previously expected to add more VRAM to the original price could be completely canceled on both desktop and notebook sides, and the first screen card to be hit by the revision were ram-intensive models like the RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, making the price expected to rise by another 10-20%.
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This situation has led analysts to worry that 2026 may be a difficult time for gamers, and that it may repeat the crisis of screen cards in short supply like the 2020-2021 period, where products are so limited that prices are much higher than launch prices.
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In addition, the impact has spread to the notebook market where prices are expected to rise by at least 20%, or if prices do not increase, they may reduce specs instead, such as reducing the ram to 8 GB or something like that.
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For anyone who plans to upgrade their computer or buy a new notebook, these data are a warning sign that 2026 may not be an upgrade year, because many things are prepared to raise prices. This rush at the end of the year may be the most effective solution, because in the near future, the hardware market is obviously going to be driven by AI demand rather than the gaming market.
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Source: videocardz
