AMD RDNA 5 GPUs likely delayed until late 2027 or early 2028

A report based on conversations with graphics card makers at Computex suggests AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 GPUs may not appear until late 2027 and could slip into early 2028. AMD's current RDNA 4 cards, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, launched in March 2025. The timeline would extend AMD's recent release cadence: RDNA 3 debuted in December 2022 and RDNA 4 followed in March 2025, so a late-2027 RDNA 5 would add roughly a year to that cycle.

Nvidia has also shown slight slippage, with the RTX 4090 arriving in October 2022 and the RTX 5090 in January 2025. At Computex, Nvidia outlined a Vera Rubin iteration of its RTX Spark chip for 2028, an APU that combines CPU and graphics rather than a discrete GPU.

The PC hardware market is under pressure from elevated chip prices driven by the AI boom, so a later RDNA 5 could help bring prices down — but it might also mean the new cards arrive both late and expensive.

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