NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16-series Finally Discontinued

[btarunr]

NVIDIA has finally laid to rest the last GeForce GPUs to feature the "GTX" brand extension, the GTX 16-series "Turing." Although two generations older than the current RTX 40-series "Ada," the GTX 16-series formed the entry-level for NVIDIA, with certain SKUs continuing to ship to graphics card manufacturers, and more importantly, notebook ODMs as popular GeForce MX and GTX 16-series SKUs. With NVIDIA introducing further cut-down variants of its "Ampere" based GA107 silicon, such as the desktop RTX 3050 6 GB, the company has reportedly discontinued the GTX 16-series. All its inventories are drained on NVIDIA's end, and the channel is expected to consume the last remaining chips in the next 1-3 months, according to a source on Chinese forum Broad Channels.

NVIDIA had originally conceived the GTX 16-series to form the lower half of its 2018 product stack, with the upper half driven by the RTX 20-series. Both are based on the "Turing" graphics architecture, but the GTX 16-series has a reduced feature-set, namely the lack of RT cores and Tensor cores. The idea at the time behind the GTX 16-series, was that at their performance levels, ray tracing would be prohibitively slow at any resolution, and so these could be left with just the CUDA cores of "Turing," and made to power games with pure raster 3D graphics, so gamers could at least benefit from the higher IPC and 12 nm efficiency of "Turing" over the 16 nm "Pascal." Popular GPU models include the GTX 1650, and the GTX 1660 Super.



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[Chrispy_]

Good riddance.

I never understood why the 1650 was so popular. It was never cheaper than the RX570 that dramatically outperformed it, and compared to the last generation, it was far slower than the venerable GTX 1060. Unlike today, there were no real features that Nvidia offered with the 1650 that AMD didn't. The 1650 didn't even have Turing's NVENC encoder, so it was truly offering nothing.

You could argue that it was power efficient but if you underclocked and undervolted an RX570 to 75W, you'd get very similar performance to the 1650.

 

[Fourstaff]

I wonder what the cybercafes are migrating towards. RTX3050?

 

[natr0n]

I have a evga 1660ti with watercooler attached. I was board runs like 30c always.

 

[P4-630]

I have a evga 1660ti with watercooler attached. I was board runs like 30c always.

Watercooled 1660ti ?.... Got a photo of that mod?

 

[Isaak]

1650 Super my beloved. It was a big upgrade for me at the time.

 

[MaMoo]

Good riddance.

I never understood why the 1650 was so popular. It was never cheaper than the RX570 that dramatically outperformed it, and compared to the last generation, it was far slower than the venerable GTX 1060. Unlike today, there were no real features that Nvidia offered with the 1650 that AMD didn't. The 1650 didn't even have Turing's NVENC encoder, so it was truly offering nothing.

You could argue that it was power efficient but if you underclocked and undervolted an RX570 to 75W, you'd get very similar performance to the 1650.

I think this was because it was the best slot-powered card at the time and allowed people with crappy prebuilt boxes with weak PSUs to enjoy some good graphics. I think the DIY PC community is rather a small minority.

 

[natr0n]

Watercooled 1660ti ?.... Got a photo of that mod?

 

[TheDeeGee]

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Nice stack of Molex, bet that runs loud without fan control.

 

[natr0n]

Nice stack of Molex, bet that runs loud without fan control.

made a 7 volt cable using on main pc very quiet on 7v not too loud full blast

This reminds me I have to make some more.

 

[Chrispy_]

I think this was because it was the best slot-powered card at the time and allowed people with crappy prebuilt boxes with weak PSUs to enjoy some good graphics. I think the DIY PC community is rather a small minority.

Yeah, slot powered is certainly a way to turn an office prebuilt - either one purchased new, or more likely one that's being sold dirt cheap from an office fleet - into an acceptable gaming rig on a budget.

 

[Paganstomp]

Sorry, you can't have mine. Still sitting in the box. R.I.P. EVGA!

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

I love my eVGA 1660 Super GDDR6. It's a great budget gaming card for older stuff or 1080P. I have it stuffed in an ITX build.

 

[Lew Zealand]

My kid is still using his 1660 Super which he's had since Jan 2020. Upgraded his CPU twice but the GPU still does what he needs it to, currently playing Helldivers 2.

 

[docnorth]

I think this was because it was the best slot-powered card at the time and allowed people with crappy prebuilt boxes with weak PSUs to enjoy some good graphics. I think the DIY PC community is rather a small minority.

Exactly this. Now with the 3050 6gb available, there is no role for the 1650 any longer I think (says a happy 1650 owner).

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I still have my MSI 1660 Super Gaming X card. That baby literally saved my butt during the crypto shitstorm! Was a great little card. A 3070 Suprim sits in its place inside my case.

 

[mechtech]

GT1030 still available though

 

[Fergutor]

I still have my MSI 1660 Super Gaming X card. That baby literally saved my butt during the crypto shitstorm! Was a great little card. A 3070 Suprim sits in its place inside my case.

Had the same. But replaced with a 3080 Ventus OC. Although my 1660S Gaming X came with this problem of the loose or bad mounted heatsink. Apart from that (very important) issue, loved that card.