NVIDIA has reportedly ceased production of its GTX 16 Series GPUs, allocating the last of the affordable Turing-era GPUs to OEM manufacturers. Unnamed sources close to Board Channels claim that the GPU brand quietly discontinued the production and is expecting its current inventory of 16 Series GPUs to be sold off within the next three months.
For the record, NVIDIA had already discontinued the production of the1660 series and the remaining models within the lineup include the GTX 1630 and 1650 GPUs, both of which are low-powered models of the series.
NVIDIA first introduced the moniker and lineup back in 2004 with the launch of the GeForce 7800 GTX. The suffix then went on to become a formal title for the entire series, starting with the 280 years later, in 2008. A decade later, the GPU brand launched the RTX 20 Series, which also marked the first time it introduced more advanced features such as Tensor and RT Cores. Both of which are currently in their 4th and 3rd generations, respectively.
That short history lesson aside, NVIDIA is expected to continue providing support for the GTX 16 series for at least a few more years, primarily addressing security bugs and providing up-to-date drivers to keep them relevant in a sea of Ampere and Ada Lovelace-powered GPUs.
(Source: Board Channels via Techspot)
