NVIDIA Hints At Relaunching Older Gaming GPUs With New Technologies To Tackle Challenges In Current Market, Says Future of Graphics Is Neural Rendering

NVIDIA CEO has highlighted that Neural Rendering is the future of graphics, & also hinted that older gaming GPUs might be coming back.

NVIDIA CEO Says Older Gaming GPUs Might Be Coming Back & Potentially Support New Features As A Move To Tackle Current Market Challenges, Also Highlights Neural Rendering As The Future of Graphics

During a Q&A session hosted by NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, at CES 2026, several questions on the current gaming landscape were laid out of which two questions in particular held out.

The first important question was asked by Tom’s Hardware’s Editor, Paul Alcorn, who asked Jensen about the current market challenges that affect almost all gaming PC hardware.

The question also asked if the company would be willing to ressurect older GPUs with new technologies and to that, NVIDIA’s CEO said that it was entirely possible though relaunching an older GPU with new technologies, especially the AI advancements that NVIDIA has made on the DLSS and RTX side such as DLSS 4.5 and MFG6X, would still require extra R&D. So while it will be possible, it remains to be seen whether NVIDIA would take this approach.

A few days ago, it was rumored that NVIDIA was bringing the GeForce RTX 3060 to life. The card saw severely reduced production output to meet the supply of newer GPUs, but has maintained the top spot on Steam as the most popular graphics card used by gamers.

While the RTX 3060 is going to come back, it is definitely not going to feature any new technology such as MFG, advanced RT, Neural Shader, or Neural Rendering support. Those are changes within the GPU IP, and the chip for the RTX 3060 is still using the same Ampere architecture that launched back with the RTX 30 series.

Older RTX GPUs, such as the RTX 20, RTX 30, and RTX 40 series, do benefit from new AI model updates such as DLSS 4.5 RTX Super Resolution, but even then, they have limitations due to their FP16 architecture versus the newer FP8 capability found on the latest RTX Blackwell lineup. This leads to bigger performance drops when DLSS 4.5 is enabled, as reported here. With that said, these older GPUs can still offset some supply challenges in the gaming markets.

The second question was asked by PC World’s Adram Patrick Muray about the future of gaming graphics and what role AI has to play.

Answering this question, Jensen stated that Neural Rendering is the way forward for gaming and graphics in general. He pointed out that DLSS will continue to advance graphics, and we will see even more images and frames being generated by AI.

There are currently three main applications for RTX Neural Shaders, all of which we previously covered from NVIDIA’s research papers: RTX Neural Texture Compression, RTX Neural Materials, and RTX Neural Radiance Cache.