According to industry sources, NVIDIA will completely halt the production line of GTX 16 series GPUs starting from the first quarter of 2024, ceasing supply.
This means that the long-utilized ‘GTX’ will now become history, and the thousand-dollar cards will also cease to exist.
The GTX 16 series made its debut in 2019 as the sibling version of the RTX 20 series, sharing the same Turing architecture but lacking hardware ray tracing and DLSS, suitable for mainstream and entry-level gamers who do not require these new technologies.
Previously, the GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1660 SUPER, GTX 1660, and GTX 1650 SUPER have been successively discontinued. The only ones remaining are the GTX 1650 and GTX 1630, priced at around 1000 yuan and 800 yuan respectively, among the few genuine thousand-yuan cards available.
Following the discontinuation of these two products, there are no subsequent replacement products. In the future, anyone looking to purchase a graphics card will likely need to spend over 2000 yuan…
It’s worth noting that the GTX 1650 is quite complex, having spawned at least four different versions.
While all have 896 CUDA cores, their specific chips, core frequencies, memory configurations, and power consumption differ.
Initially, there was the TU117 core, running at 1665MHz frequency with 4GB 8GHz GDDR5 memory. Later versions introduced the TU116 and TU106 cores, both with reduced frequencies of 1590MHz, followed by a version with 12GHz GDDR6 memory.
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