AMD's RDNA 5 GPUs reportedly won't arrive until late 2027 or early 2028

Dutch outlet Tweakers spoke with several graphics card manufacturers at Computex and came away with a gloomy timeline for AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs — one source put the expected launch in the second half of 2027, while another called that too optimistic and pointed to late 2027 or early 2028 instead.

AMD's current RDNA 4 lineup, headlined by the Radeon RX 9070 XT, launched in March 2025. Before that, the RDNA 3 generation kicked off with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX in December 2022 — meaning RDNA 4 already stretched the traditional two-year cadence. If RDNA 5 doesn't land until late 2027, that's a full extra year tacked onto the cycle since RDNA 3, and a gap of nearly three years from RDNA 4.

Nvidia isn't exactly sprinting either. The RTX 5090 arrived in January 2025, a little behind the two-year pace set by the RTX 4090 in October 2022. At Computex, Nvidia mentioned a 2028 window for the Vera Rubin iteration of its RTX Spark chip — but that's an APU combining CPU and graphics, not a discrete GPU, so it's only a rough indicator of where Nvidia's next-gen PC gaming hardware sits on the calendar.

There's a silver lining argument here: the longer AMD waits, the more chance prices have to normalize after the AI boom inflated chip costs across the board. But if AI demand keeps climbing, RDNA 5 could end up both late and expensive — a combination PC gamers, already squeezed by spiralling hardware prices, really don't need.