News Nvidia GTX branding finally reaches the end of the line after 19 years — the last GTX 16-series chips have left the foundry

[Admin]

The Nvidia GTX brand will finally be fully discontinued, as the last GTX 16-series chips are reportedly now in AIB partner hands. This marks the end of a 19-year run for the GTX name, with RTX only in the foreseeable future.

Nvidia GTX branding finally reaches the end of the line after 19 years — the last GTX 16-series chips have left the foundry : Read more

 

[Notton]

Which is fine, since 16 series doesn't do DLSS.
DLSS in performance mode is the difference between having playable frame rates and slideshow on a card like the mobile RTX 2050 4GB.

 

[Crazyy8]

Rest in peace GTX, you lived fast and died slow.

 

[Eximo]

Just shy of twenty years. Though it wasn't until the 200 series that GT and GTX became the normal naming convention.

Apparently the Geforce 2 GTS was the first GFLOP capable GPU from Nvidia and where it started. Giga Texel Shader.

GTX was Giga Texel eXtreme.

Currently Ray-Tracing Texel eXtreme

 

[DavidLejdar]

I had two GTX cards in use. One was the 760, launched in 2013, I still have around. Quite crazy to think, that for the launch price of $249, one could have bought Nvidia shares at $3.60 a piece back then, that is nearly 70 shares, worth nearly 60k today. But hey, I had some use of the GPU, and I helped keep Nvidia afloat during the days, when the stock market didn't care about them much.

 

[atomicWAR]

My first GTX gpu was an 7800 gtx. The first GTX card I remember personaly. What a card it was too. GTX, the king is dead...RTX, long live the king.

 

[Eximo]

My first GTX gpu was an 7800 gtx. The first GTX card I remember personaly. What a card it was too. GTX, the king is dead...RTX, long live the king.

Rex Tessera Extremum

Roughly translates King Tiles Extreme (but is completely out of order)

 

[Giroro]

I don't really care about the branding.
I care that they stopped producing their entry level cards, with apparently no plan to replace them.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

I've said it for years and it rings true still: I hate the "death" of inexpensive low end cards. No they're not built for heavy gaming and APUs have become powerful enough for HTPC type tasks, but a low end dedicated card was perfect for office computers which didn't have an APU but still were stronger than Intel's iGPU and carried the weight to hardware accelerate Google Earth and other office products, were able to do light gaming without stuttering and hardware decode video, and were the perfect thing to keep in a drawer for when your mid or high end GPU needed to be RMA'd and you still needed to use your computer for a few days.

Granted the market has long moved on from the dirt cheap HD 5450, but it's a shame that the only ones even attempting to target that market are Intel right now.

 

[tommtajlor]

I don't really care about the branding.
I care that they stopped producing their entry level cards, with apparently no plan to replace them.

They do producing entry level cards. They just naming and pricing it a few tiers higher. But its existing.

 

[Geezen]

I don't really care about the branding.
I care that they stopped producing their entry level cards, with apparently no plan to replace them.

Does it really matter?
Modern cpus can match the entry level (GTX 1650 = Ryzen 8600g)
Also there is a landfill of used cards these days.

 

[bgunner]

I remember my first GTX card that I purchased. It was the 9800 GTX 1GB which I still have and runs great but needed a few repasting over the years. I had a 8800 GT 512MB also but that one died sadly.

As new generations get released the naming schemes inevitably change and thus here we are.

 

[renz496]

I don't really care about the branding.
I care that they stopped producing their entry level cards, with apparently no plan to replace them.

RTX 3050 6GB...

 

[bit_user]

Just shy of twenty years. Though it wasn't until the 200 series that GT and GTX became the normal naming convention.

Apparently the Geforce 2 GTS was the first GFLOP capable GPU from Nvidia and where it started. Giga Texel Shader.

GTX was Giga Texel eXtreme.

Currently Ray-Tracing Texel eXtreme

Thanks! Now, can anyone explain where the "Ti" naming convention came from? I guess it's short for Titanium? But why make a "Ti" edition of something like a GTX 980 that's enough faster to be a GTX 990?

 

[bit_user]

Granted the market has long moved on from the dirt cheap HD 5450, but it's a shame that the only ones even attempting to target that market are Intel right now.

You can get a new RX 6400 for $125 that's low-profile and runs off bus power. Granted, that's $25 more than the cheapest new ARC A310, but I think the RX 6400 might at least be faster?

As @renz496 pointed out, Nvidia is getting back into the sub-$200 market, with the 6 GB version of the RTX 3050. Currently, the cheapest new price I'm seeing is $170, so that's a substantial gap vs. the other two.

 

[Eximo]

A380 is $120 at the moment. It is the best bang for the buck if you aren't playing older titles and have a system with ReBar. Though even without ReBar I found most DX12 titles playable.

 

[kal326]

So what about GT? Pretty sure 1030 GT cards are still collecting dust on shelves. Curious how long ago the last of those left the fabs.

 

[Eximo]

Well, they said they are ending the GTX line and Turing production. GT1030 is still Pascal.

It was also made using a Samsung node, so they wouldn't be using any of their TSMC fab time. Since it still has a niche purpose it is possible it is still in production.