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Kepler_L2 places the RTX 6060 at 2029, 44 months after the 5060

The Die Brief Desk, after @HatimsShorts

Kepler_L2, a NeoGAF hardware leaker, told VideoCardz the next mainstream GeForce may not ship until 2029, a gap of roughly 44 months from the RTX 5060.

Picture from wccftech.com
Picture from wccftech.com
GeForce x60 series
GTX 760June 2013, 9 months
GTX 960January 2015, 19 months
GTX 1060July 2016, 18 months
RTX 2060January 2019, 30 months
RTX 3060February 2021, 25 months
RTX 4060June 2023, 28 months
RTX 5060May 2025, 23 months
RTX 6060 (unconfirmed)2029 (rumored), ~44 months

VideoCardz filed the piece on October 20, 2025, citing a NeoGAF post by Kepler_L2, a hardware leaker who has circulated estimates on upcoming GPU architectures in recent months. The leaker's claim is narrow and conditional: the next mainstream GeForce, currently called the RTX 6060, may not arrive until 2029, roughly 44 months after the RTX 5060 shipped in May 2025. NVIDIA has not mentioned the RTX 60 series at all, and the page carries a rumor tag.

The page carries a release-history table for the x60 line, from the GTX 660 in September 2012 through the RTX 5060 in May 2025, with an average gap of 21 months since the Kepler generation. The longest prior stretch was 30 months, between the GTX 1060 in July 2016 and the RTX 2060 in January 2019, so a 44-month wait would exceed every interval in that table by a wide margin. Kepler_L2 himself says he does not think NVIDIA would force a wait that long, and notes that the company tends to announce and release at different times, which muddies any single-date prediction.

Die Brief reads the 2029 figure as a supply-constraint scenario, not a design timeline. The leaker's own explanation is that NVIDIA delays lower-end launches during shortages, and he suggests the card may trail PlayStation 6 in gaming performance, which would make the 6060 the weakest link in the lineup. If the high-end RTX 60 cards land in 2028 as earlier reports suggest, the 6060 becomes the last SKU to ship, and its date is set by fab allocation rather than by the silicon itself.

The table proves a pattern of 9-to-30-month gaps across eight generations, but it does not prove that the next gap will be 44 months, because the 6060 row is marked unconfirmed and the table stops there. No chip identifier, no architecture name, no SKU reference, no price, and no measured frame rate appear anywhere on the page. The name RTX 6060 is a placeholder; NVIDIA works under PGxxx and SKU numbers until packaging templates and promotional materials go out to board partners, and the leaker concedes that marketing names become clearer only closer to launch.

What is still unmeasured: the actual silicon, the process node, the memory configuration, the TDP, the price, and whether the card exists in any form beyond a leaker's estimate on a forum. The document leaves every one of those cells empty, and the 2029 date is a single leaker's read of a supply pattern, not a schedule from NVIDIA or a board partner.

Die Brief reads the 2029 date as a supply-constraint scenario, not a design slip. The buyer at the entry tier absorbs the wait; the foundry decides when the wafer starts.

No chip identifier, process node, memory configuration, TDP, price, or measured frame rate appears in the document.

The 44-month gap exceeds every prior x60 interval by 14 months. The constraint is fab allocation for the low-end SKU, not silicon readiness. The 6060 ships last because it is the last SKU the fab schedules.

After @HatimsShorts. We did not report this. The pictures, if any, are theirs. Also filed by OC3D, Wccftech.

October 20, 2026 · 4 min
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