TECH NEWS – From now on, the “greens” will concentrate all their efforts on RTX with cards for gamers (GeForce) and professional use (RTX)…

In December, we already heard that Nvidia will discontinue its GeForce GTX 1600 cards still in production during the first quarter of 2024. This is indeed the case, with the GTX 1660 Super, GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1650, GTX 1650 Ti, GTX 1650 Super and GTX 1630 all leaving the production lines. The GTX designation has been around since the GeForce 7 and 8 series, so we’ve seen the name on Nvidia cards for 19 years. However, after the 7800 GTX and 8800 GTX, the name was reversed, so GTX came first, followed by the numbering, but that’s over a decade ago.

GTX covered the higher priced, better performing graphics cards, GTS was the mid-range (there was also this branding before) and GT was the entry level (GT 1010, GT 1030). Reading on the Chinese Board Channesls forum, the partners (e.g. Asus, Gigabyte…) will not get GTX 1600 GPUs, so what is still in stock in the stores will be sold out in 1-3 months, and from then on you can only buy RTX cards if you are looking for a new card, because there are plenty of them on the market second hand.

The GTX 1600 cards were released alongside the RTX 2000 series. In the latter, ray tracing was obviously the big innovation, but the technology took some time to mature, so the Turing architecture was the foundation (the same one used in the GTX 1600 series!) on which the RTX 3000 Ampere and now the RTX 4000 Ada Lovelace were built. The RTX 5000 architecture will probably be called Blackwell.

So the GTX series is leaving the shelves, and while it’s true that the GTX 1660 Super is still somewhat good for 1080p gaming, it’s getting a bit old.

Source: WCCFTech, Board Channels