Rumour That Nvidia Will Cancel The Rtx 50 Super Cards Because Of...
Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
If there's one thing that is a dead cert in the PC tech world, it's that in the build-up to an expected product launch, the interwebs will be full of leaks and rumours. In the case of the latter, these can be nothing more than a statement of the blindingly obvious, but occasionally, something gets dropped that's just wild. The recent claim that Nvidia will cancel its forthcoming GeForce RTX 50 Super series due to memory shortages is a prime example.
As reported by Uniko's Hardware on X, someone, somewhere, is claiming that the DDR4/DDR5 memory shortages will make the cost of 3 GB GDDR7 modules so high that Nvidia is going to cancel the refresh of RTX 50 graphics cards, which are expected to use the larger RAM chips. Oh, and the current cards will get a lot more expensive for good measure, too.
[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
There's little point in asking Nvidia directly about this because it will always just say things like 'We don't comment on rumours' or 'We don't talk about future products', but if the GPU giant did respond, and although I obviously can't say for certain, I would expect them to deny the claim outright. That's because chips being in short supply has never stopped them from launching before.
Just recall what happened with the GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, and so on. The availability for every model was awful at launch, and it took many months for the situation to improve. Prices were also well over MSRP, too. And yet, PC gamers and hardware enthusiasts still bought them in droves, helping Nvidia to earn a record revenue from it all.
You might be wondering why GDDR7 would be in short supply anyway, as massive AI servers don't use it. Even though the ultra-fast graphics memory used on most RTX 50 cards is internally different to DDR5 and LPDDR5x, it's still fabricated in the same process lines.
So with the demand for the normal system RAM ploughing through the stratosphere, because of bloody AI, manufacturers such as Samsung and Micron will want to use as much production capacity as possible for DDR5, as well as AI-specific stuff like HBM.
What's likely to make matters worse is tha
Source: PC Gamer
