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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Released: GDDR6 Reaching Price Parity With GDDR5
Tucked inside NVIDIA's announcement of their spring refresh of their mobile GPU lineup, the company included a new low-end mobile part, the GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. Exactly as it says on the tin, this was a version of the company's GTX 1650 accelerator, except with newer GDDR6 instead of the GDDR5 it launched with. Now, in one of NVIDIA's more poorly kept secrets, their desktop product stack is getting a version of the card as well.
[...] The entry-level card is the cheapest (and the slowest) of the Turing family, offering as much performance as NVIDIA can pack into a 75 Watt TDP.
[...] Overall, this low-key release should mark a more important turning point in the state of GDDR memory. If NVIDIA and its partners are now willing to release GDDR6 versions of low-end cards, then this is a strong indicator that GDDR6 has finally lost most of its new technology price premium, and that memory prices have fallen by enough to be competitive with 8Gbps GDDR5. GDDR6 prices were a sticking point for the profit-sensitive NVIDIA during the original Turing product stack launch, so while it has taken an extra year, the company is finally offering a top-to-bottom GDDR6-based product stack.
Let's see more GPUs and APUs with HBM already.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday April 07 2020, @03:24AM (5 children)
Not being a jerk here. Who is it aimed at?
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 07 2020, @04:18AM (2 children)
It's aimed primarily at "entry level" gamers, whatever the heck that means. You'll find that phrase on various sites. The low profile card is very specifically aimed at people who have small form factor boxes, which is exactly what I was looking for. It fits into a 2U server, and a bunch of those mini-ATX, micros, and whatever else. It will make an excellent card for enterprise, and for regular people who need something better than an embedded Intel, but don't need a gaming rig.
Let me hit on that gaming thing again: the 1650 will play just about any game 5 years old very nicely, on higher settings, if not the highest settings.
Games being released now and in the next year or so are actually waiting on optimised drivers for the RTX 2070 and 2080. My low-end 1650 isn't even under consideration by real gamers.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 07 2020, @11:07PM (1 child)
Check this out:
Single Board Computer + GTX 1650 Can it Game? ODYSSEY / ReComputer SBC [youtube.com]
lol
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 07 2020, @11:35PM
That's pretty cool.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday April 07 2020, @08:12AM (1 child)
There are gamers and then there are gamers. For some, it seems that spending the most money and obtaining the most bragging rights is the primary game. For them, anything other than the flagship part is "low end" even though 99% of games would run fine on it. (Since when is the GTX moniker used for low end parts anyway?)
I play plenty of games, but I've never once spent even $100 on a video card let alone $500. But it's nice that somebody buys that stuff, so I can buy it from them on ebay five years later for much less.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 07 2020, @11:40AM
Since the ultra expensive RTX 20-series cash grab was launched. Now "GTX" is used for a handful of cards [wikipedia.org] without any dedicated raytracing (or ML) cores. Turing might be the only generation to do this since Nvidia (as well as AMD) are going to want some minimum level of raytracing functionality on every card eventually.
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