Nvidia’s GTX GPUs are going to be a factor of the previous, with the corporate planning to cancel the GTX 16 collection graphics playing cards it nonetheless makes… no less than, that is the phrase on the grapevine.
This rumor filtered down from Board Channels (a standard supply of hypothesis from China) as highlighted by VideoCardz.
Going by the publish on stated discussion board – remember the fact that it has been translated from Chinese language, so we may be lacking some nuances – Nvidia will reportedly “utterly cease manufacturing of GTX 16 collection GPUs” from Q1 2024.
So because of this from the start of subsequent yr, Nvidia will cease producing chips for these price range graphics playing cards and cease supplying them to the desktop producers, which signifies that there might be no extra GTX 1650 and 1630 graphics playing cards.
The studies the discussion board publish cites appear fairly clear about ‘utterly’ ceasing manufacturing, and but a few of the different phrases used within the publish are couched in additional imprecise phrases (Nvidia ‘should’ cease transport to desktop producers). We ought to be additional cautious about these claims anyway, and as already talked about, translation could be a difficulty right here.
Evaluation: Items of the price range puzzle are beginning to match
Different fashions within the GTX 16 vary have already been discontinued – or are rumored to be – so this theoretically heralds the top of the GTX model, with solely RTX graphics playing cards to be produced going ahead. (Should you recall, the RTX 2000 era, or Turing, was the final to have a GTX counterpart, which was the 16 collection).
After all, that may go away holes in Nvidia’s price range line-up, which was already not the strongest swimsuit for Group Inexperienced. With GTX 16 playing cards dropped, the most cost effective remaining choice would be the RTX 3050 (after the remaining GTX 1650 and 1630 fashions promote via).
To be truthful, the GTX 1650 is not that a lot lower than the RTX 3050 once you take a look at present pricing – in reality, the latter GPU is just about 15% costlier (within the US on the time of writing), and the 3050 is a giant step up. The largest drawback is that the 3050 is out of inventory (proper now).
Whereas the GTX 1630 is a genuinely extra wallet-friendly choice than any of the above, promoting for round $130 within the US (about £100, AU$195) in the meanwhile, it is frankly not an excellent graphics card – in any respect – and doubtless gained not missed a lot.
Nonetheless, this makes Nvidia look even thinner on the bottom for actually reasonably priced graphics playing cards—that’s, till we contemplate one other latest rumor. Earlier this week, we heard that Nvidia is releasing a less expensive model of the RTX 3050 with much less VRAM (6GB as an alternative of 8GB) – so it seems to be prefer it may substitute the GTX 1650 as a better option in the very same worth vary.
Additionally rumored to be one thing to fill the hole between this theoretical new RTX 3050 and RTX 4060, which should certainly be the RTX 4050?
So there’s a likelihood that we may have a brand new RTX 3050 variant and an RTX 4050 incoming, and this new rumor makes that chance appear somewhat extra probably. Nevertheless, that also will not go away something on the actually low cost finish of the market the place the GTX 1630 sits, however Nvidia might merely be shrugging off the nice basement territory at this level.
In spite of everything, there’s far more focus in the meanwhile on money cows, that are heavyweight GPUs for AI.