NVIDIA will discontinue production of GeForce GTX 1660 and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

A few days ago we wrote that NVIDIA stopped production of GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER graphics cards. But another series is under the knife.

Here's What We Know

VideoCardz citing BoardChannels confirms not only the withdrawal of the GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER. According to the source, the company will no longer produce accelerators GeForce GTX 1660 and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, which in contrast to the series RTX 20 does not support ray tracing technology.

Both models were announced in 2019. The GeForce GTX 1660 card was the first to hit the market with the manufacturer's recommended price $219. It has a GPU with a base frequency of 1530 MHz and 1408 stream processors, 6 GB of 8 GHz GDDR6 memory and a bandwidth of 192.1 GB/s.

The SUPER version appeared in mid-autumn and was only $10 more expensive. The performance has increased by about 10%. The graphics card retained the TU116-300A1 chip and 6GB of VRAM. However, the memory frequency has been increased to 14 GHz, which increased the bandwidth to 336 GB/s.

Source: VideoCardz