TECH NEWS – Nvidia didn’t plan it, but out of necessity, we have the odd situation that the entry-level graphics card will be slightly different from what we’ve seen.
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 is a graphics card in a strange situation, as the 16XX cards are the last GTXs, and the company announced them at the same time as the RTX 20XX family. The 1660 Super is a fair mid-range solution, and the 1650 is a lower-mid-range card, but Nvidia managed to go below it when it released the GTX 1630. The GTX 1650 has 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (that’s slowly becoming not enough for gaming; you’ll need 6, and slowly 8 GB of VRAM), but despite it, it’s in the top 10 of used video cards in Steam’s latest hardware survey.
The GTX 16XX cards are based on the Turing architecture. They don’t have DLSS or ray tracing support but are significantly cheaper. (On Amazon, a GTX 1660 Super is $181. Yet, in our country, the same model from the same manufacturer is over $300.) Because of it, Nvidia’s AUBs, third-party manufacturers (e.g., MSI) may have been forced to use the TU106 instead of the TU117 GPUs they used to use, according to Board Channels Forums.
We’re out of TU117 silicon, so manufacturers will have to use TU106 on cards that have been available since 2019 (but there have been some updates in 2020). In the US, a better choice might be the Arc A310 or Arc A380 from Intel, while in the AMD estates, the RX 6300 or RX 6400 might be more affordable because of the relatively better pricing and more performance and features. The performance of TU106 (possibly TU116) chips might be higher, the specifications may change somewhat, and the chips may not be more capable. We also don’t know yet if GDDR5 or GDDR6 VRAM will be on these cards, and if it’s not an entirely new SKU (since there’s already GTX 1650 and GTX 1650 Super, they could call it Ti at most), the memory specs won’t change significantly either.
At least these cards are relatively cheap. True, they are not outstanding in performance. (But they are in consumption.)
Source: WCCFTech
![However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well.](https://thegeek.games/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-gog-1-302x180.jpg)
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