There is a buzz going around in the graphics card production arena, where the NVIDIA GTX brand will soon be dropped. This is because the production of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16XX series graphics cards has been discontinued, and the last graphics cards in this series have already been delivered to the graphics card manufacturer.
With this, it is seen that the last models in the series of NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics cards that use the Turing graphics processing chip have been developed, and no more graphics cards in the series will be shown again.
In this series, only the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards were developed until now because the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 was discontinued earlier. This is also nothing new, as NVIDIA has already announced the retirement of these graphics cards at the end of last year.
The first NVIDIA graphics card to use the GTX brand was the NVIDIA 7800 GTX launched in 2005. One interesting thing about this graphics card is that it was used as the basis for building the RSX Reality Synthesizer CPU used in the Sony PlayStation 3 video game console.
With NVIDIA's focus now turning to upgrading ray-tracing technology and the use of artificial intelligence in improving the graphics quality of computer games, it is not surprising to see that NVIDIA wants to leave this legacy brand behind.
NVIDIA's most affordable offering after the GeForce RTX brand is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card that was introduced two years ago, which features an Ampere graphics chip and comes with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and is introduced with support for graphics features such as NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, ray-tracing and so on.