Farewell GTX 16 series: Nvidia to give up all production of its budget line

Pour one out for the GTX sixteen Series. According to new reports, Nvidia has decided to officially stop its whole line of GTX 16xx snap shots cards that had been first announced in 2019 and stay popular among Steam customers.

It's been over a 12 months when you consider that Nvidia released the ultimate of its GTX 16xx portraits cards, the GTX 1630, a product we presented a score of 20 and called an insult to gamers, which could explain its very quick existence.

According to the Chinese Board Channel Forums, Nvidia is expected to prevent production of all GTX sixteen-collection playing cards beginning within the first region of subsequent yr – in some weeks, essentially – with the very last orders being finished this month.

Nvidia has already officially, or in some instances reportedly, discontinued maximum of the GTX 16xx cards, which means the upcoming series discontinuation will only effect the GTX 1650 and GTX 1630; the latter is a reduce-down version of the former.

The GTX sixteen series is based on the identical Turing architecture that launched a yr earlier within the RTX 20 Series, which was extra high priced and got here with the likes of hardware-improved ray tracing and DLSS as trendy.

While it might not were as technologically advanced, the price range GTX 16 collection has proved to be very famous with game enthusiasts: it was best in September while the RTX 3060 knocked the GTX 1650 off its long-held top spot at the Steam Hardware and Survey GPU chart. The older card remains in 2nd region or even noticed its user share increase 1.Thirteen% final month.

Expect to retain to look the GTX 16-series playing cards to be had to shop for until AIB and retailer inventories sell out – there are nevertheless plenty available from Amazon and Newegg. Don't be surprised to peer their costs fall significantly over the coming months, too, and extra GTX 16xx playing cards acting on eBay as owners exchange them in for more moderen models.

As we mentioned in our Best GPUs function, there actually are not many options left for every body searching to shop for an excellent sub-$200 GPU in recent times. Our recommendation is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 or Radeon 6650 XT. The former's cheapest non-refurbished models on Newegg are $199, and they are both discounted or are from lesser-acknowledged brands.