The number one GPU manufacturer intends to focus on the more modern RTX range.
Originally, "GTX" graphics cards were only used to distinguish a few NVIDIA variants, such as the GeForce 7800 GS, 7800GT and 7800 GTX. However, a few years after these models were launched, NVIDIA extended the "GTX" designation to all its graphics cards, with the launch of the GeForce 200 series in June 2008. At the time, there were many different references, and GeForce GTX was to be the model of choice for gamers for many years... for 10 years, in fact!
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Indeed, from September 2018, NVIDIA is gradually replacing the "GTX" designation with "RTX" for large GeForce 20 series models, starting with the GeForce RTX 2080 on September 20, 2018. The aim is for NVIDIA to emphasize the use of a new technology, ray tracing. According to some rumors - it doesn't seem to us that NVIDIA has ever communicated on this point - RTX stands for Ray tracing Texel eXtreme and is logically carried over to the GeForce 30 series in September 2020 and then the GeForce 40 series in October 2022.
Despite the release of the "RTX" models, NVIDIA had kept the "GTX" models in its catalog. Fewer and fewer in number, these cards have been confined to entry-level products with the so-called GeForce GTX 16 series, including the GTX 1650 and GTX 1660, to name but two. According to WCCFTech, NVIDIA has decided to wipe the slate clean and end production of all GTX GPUs in the first quarter of next year. A new page is being turned.
