NVIDIA's GTX series graphics cards can be said to be the most successful series before the arrival of the ray tracing era, but since the launch of the RTX 20 series graphics cards, NVIDIA has become less and less concerned about the GTX series graphics cards, and has not updated the GTX graphics cards much in recent years, and now this classic brand is finally announcing goodbye to everyone. According to NVIDIA's latest announcement, the first quarter of this year will completely discontinue the production of GTX 16 series graphics cards, thus drawing an end to this series.
According to industry news, Nvidia has notified major graphics card manufacturers that it will completely stop production of GTX 16 series GPUs based on Turing architecture in the first quarter of this year, including GTX 1660 Super, GTX 1660, GTX 1650 and GTX 1630 and other terminals, and this last batch of GPU materials will also be sent to major AICs, and it is expected that graphics card manufacturers will digest this inventory within 3 months. With the digestion of the last batch of GPUs, it means that the GTX brand that has been with us for 19 years will say goodbye to everyone completely.
With the iterative update of RTX graphics cards, everyone's attention to GTX graphics cards is getting lower and lower, after all, compared with RTX graphics cards, GTX graphics cards do not have hardware ray tracing units, nor do they have Tensor cores, which has lost its competitiveness in the current era of AI. However, GTX graphics cards are still used in some Internet cafes, and graphics cards such as GTX 1660 and GTX 1650 are also sweet and sweet in the hands of some players, after all, they are much cheaper than RTX graphics cards, and their market share on Steam is also quite high.
Nvidia also launched an RTX 3050 6GB graphics card based on Ampere architecture before, the main feature is not external power supply, and RTX special effects are also retained, which should be used to replace the current GTX graphics card, with the discontinuation of GTX graphics cards, this prefix with a history of 19 years has finally bid farewell to us completely, and in the future, Nvidia should make RTX graphics cards that fully embrace AI become the industry benchmark.