Will the GTX 1630 meet the same fate?
The GeForce GTX 1650 remains a very popular graphics card, and Nvidia hasn’t introduced anything to replace it in this segment over the past years. The company is reportedly running out of TU117 GPUs to produce these adapters, so graphics card manufacturers will be forced to use the more expensive TU106.
TU106 is the basis for the GeForce RTX 2060. That is, we are talking about a much larger GPU with RT blocks and tensor cores, which are absent in the TU117 and should not be active in the GTX 1650.
The new GeForce GTX 1650 will be made from… RTX 2060.
Of course, Nvidia is unlikely to allow the GPUs of the new GTX 1650s to be unlocked in some way, as was possible with other models in the distant past, but the very fact of using such a more complex and large GPU to produce a budget card is quite interesting. In addition, the even simpler GTX 1630, which was released less than a year ago, is based on the TU117. Apparently, manufacturers will either have to transfer it to TU106, or stop producing this card altogether.
