NVIDIA is reportedly getting rid of its entire GeForce GTX 16 Series, a family of Turing-based graphics cards that the company originally launched in February 2019, headlined by the GeForce RTX GTX 1660 Ti, a GPU with 1,538 CUDA cores, 6 GB of GDDR6 memory, a 1,770 MHz boost clock, and launch price of $279.
Here’s the machine-translated word from China’s Board Channels, which suggests the GeForce GTX 16 Series could be tougher to find soon:
According to reports, starting from the first quarter (Q1), NVIDIA will completely cease the full-scale production of the GTX16 series GPUs. This means that from Q1 onward, NV GTX16 series GPUs may no longer be supplied to AIC brand manufacturers.
If NV indeed discontinues the entire production line of the GTX16 series, it will not only involve the already discontinued GTX1660S but also include the two lower-end logistics models, GTX1650 and GTX1630. At that point, there won’t be any product models to temporarily fill the gap in this price range.
NVIDIA currently lists seven GeForce GTX 16 Series models on its website, with the weakest being the GeForce GTX 1630, a low-end card that launched last year for under $200.
Unlike the RTX Series, NVIDIA’s GTX Series doesn’t feature ray tracing cores, nor tensor cores, and it also lacks support for more recent technologies that include DLSS.