GeForce GTX 16 series
Entry-level to mid-range Turing GPUs without RT or Tensor cores.
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It targets the entry-level to mid-range market, omitting the Tensor and RT cores found in the RTX 20 series.[1] The series uses TSMC's 12 nm FinFET process and a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.[2]
Key facts and history
Nvidia announced on March 18, 2019, that a driver update in April 2019 would enable DirectX Raytracing on GTX 1660 and certain 10 series cards.[1] The GTX 1650 was announced on April 22, 2019, alongside laptops with built-in GTX 1650 chipsets.[3] The GTX 1630, released in June 2022, received negative reviews.[4] Tom's Hardware criticized the GTX 1630's price and performance, noting it only outperformed the GTX 1050.[4]
Nvidia transitioned driver support for Windows 7 to legacy status in September 2024.[5] The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, the first model in the series, became available starting February 23, 2019.[2] GPUs using the TU117 chip incorporate the NVENC encoder from the Volta architecture, not the one from Turing.[6]
What the cited sources add
An Nvidia newsroom announcement stated the GTX 1660 Ti starts at $279 and is up to 1.5x faster than the GTX 1060 6GB.[7] The same source listed the GTX 1660 Ti as featuring 1,536 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 memory.[7] Tom's Hardware reported the GTX 1630 arrived late at double its appropriate price, with half the shader cores and memory channels disabled.[8] TechSpot found the GTX 1630 delivered just 37 fps on average across 12 games, making the GTX 1050 Ti 16% faster.[9]
PC Gamer described the GTX 1650 Super as a "no-brainer" for $10 more than the 1650, being consistently around 30% faster.[10] ComputerBase stated the GTX 1650 Super is faster than a GTX 1060 and delivers comparable FPS to the Radeon RX 590.[11]
References
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Smith, "The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Sheds RTX for the Mainstream Market", AnandTech, February 22, 2019; Burnes, "Accelerating The Real-Time Ray Tracing Ecosystem: DXR For GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX", NVIDIA, March 18, 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "16: The New Supercharger – GeForce GTX 1660 Ti", Nvidia (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming Laptops", Nvidia; "NVIDIA Optical Flow SDK", developer.nvidia.com, November 29, 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Walton, "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: Lobotomized Turing", Tom's Hardware, August 5, 2022; Walton, "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: An Insult to Gamers?", TechSpot, July 7, 2022; Roach, "Six-year-old AMD GPU smokes Nvidia's new GTX 1630 by more than double", Digitial Trends, June 28, 2022 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Support Plan for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 | NVIDIA", nvidia.custhelp.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics Card", Nvidia (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "New GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Delivers Great Performance Leap for Every Gamer, Starting at $279 | NVIDIA Newsroom", nvidianews.nvidia.com, February 22, 2019. facts only, no text reused. nvidianews.nvidia.com
- Walton, "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: Lobotomized Turing", Tom's Hardware, August 5, 2022. facts only, no text reused. tomshardware.com
- Walton, "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Review: An Insult to Gamers?", TechSpot, July 7, 2022. facts only, no text reused. techspot.com
- Walton, "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super review", PC Gamer, November 23, 2019. facts only, no text reused. pcgamer.com
- Wikipedia, "GeForce GTX 16 series" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Andermahr, "Nvidias GeForce GTX 1650 Super im Test: Leistung pro Euro und Fazit", ComputerBase, 2019-11-26; Andermahr, "Nvidias GeForce GTX 1650 Super im Test: Leistung pro Euro und Fazit", ComputerBase, 2019-11-26 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: GeForce GTX 16 series (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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