NVIDIA Ends GeForce GTX 16 GPU Production As The Era of GTX Series Comes To A Close

NVIDIA has finally ended the production of its GeForce GTX 16 series GPUs, the last of the "GTX" line of cards for the masses.

Back in December, we reported that NVIDIA was planning to end the production of its remaining GeForce GTX 16 series GPUs by Q1 2024 & it looks like the company has indeed discontinued the lineup and suspended all delivers of its GTX 1660 SUPER, GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1650 Ti, GTX 1650, GTX 1650 SUPER, & GTX 1630 graphics cards.

The NVIDIA "GTX" branding has been around for a long time with the first cards to use this naming convention going back to the GeForce 7 & GeForce 8 era with the likes of the 7800 GTX and the 8800 GTX however, the company started to utilize this naming properly with its GTX 200 and GTX 400 series which are more than a decade old. The cards existed besides the GeForce GTS and GT series which had long been abandoned (GT did serve the low-tier market for some time).

According to the NVIDIA GPU product roadmap, the GTX 16 series has been completely discontinued in the first quarter of 2024. Currently, all remaining GPU stock has been allocated to AIC brand manufacturers until their inventories are depleted.

In other words, NVIDIA has officially ceased production of the GTX 16 series GPUs, declaring the historical mission of discontinuing the GTX 1660S, 1660, 1650, and 1630 graphics cards. Going forward, neither NVIDIA nor the core AIC brand manufacturers will supply GTX 16 GPUs to channel partners. It is estimated that the remaining inventory of GTX 16 series in the market will be consumed within the next 1-3 months.

via Board Channels Forums (Machine Translated)

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX branding lived on till the GeForce 10 series after which it was gradually replaced by the new "RTX" branding following the launch of the GeForce 20 series which ushered the Ray Tracing and AI era for the company. The last of the GeForce GTX cards was the 16 series which was released alongside the RTX 20 series and served the mainstream segment but the era finally concludes in 2024. We have seen some great cards within the GeForce GTX lineup such as the iconic GTX 680, GTX 980, the GTX 1080 Ti, and even the GTX Titan series which were great GPU offerings in their regards. The following are the proper GeForce GTX families:

It's been 6 years since the introduction of the NVIDIA RTX series and we have so far seen a total of 3 families within the lineup, the RTX 20 (Turing), RTX 30 (Ampere), & RTX 40 (Ada Lovelace). The next chapter is expected to begin later this year with the RTX 50 (Blackwell) lineup as indicated in recent rumors.

News Sources: Board Channels, Videocardz