At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in 2026, NVIDIA refrained from unveiling any new gaming GPUs or graphics cards, and the RTX 50 SUPER series initiative was temporarily shelved. The company presented a PowerPoint slide, revealing that the path ray tracing performance of the Blackwell RTX 50 series outperforms that of the Pascal architecture by a factor of 10,000, with an ambitious future target of achieving a 1 million-fold improvement. Nevertheless, it's crucial to note that this comparison is made relative to the Pascal architecture, which does not incorporate hardware ray tracing capabilities, and it also encompasses enhancements from AI technologies, such as DLSS frame generation. NVIDIA underscored that future performance advancements will hinge on neural rendering, frame generation technologies, and specialized RT toolchains, rather than merely scaling up chip size. Moreover, owing to the worldwide scarcity of high-end memory chips, NVIDIA opted to delay the launch of new gaming GPUs in 2026, opting instead to allocate memory resources primarily to its AI accelerator business.