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MagyarCheckMag | GeForce GTX cards are about to become history and buying one today makes no sense
GeForce GTX/GT/GS/GTS graphics cards were around for what seems like an eternity. From the 8600M GT that ushered in the era of affordable DX10 gaming to the still competent GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop), pretty much every product from that long list (including pre-DX10 models of course) gathered its fair share of users and admirers.
In 2018, first signs of trouble for the venerable series appeared in the form of the new GeForce RTX product family, which brought with it a brand-new technology that was hardware ray tracing. This was a turning point as at around that time, Nvidia decided to leave its GTX/GT/GS/GTS cards behind. The cards would never receive the features required for full DX12 Ultimate support. They would slowly become irrelevant and eventually forgotten.
In 2019, a set of GeForce GTX Super graphics cards was released; those products did not really bring much to the table in the way of features or firepower. Since then, Nvidia has all but forgotten about the series with no significant product launches whatsoever (sorry, GT 1010 and GTX 1630).
In the meantime, AMD and Intel worked hard to achieve parity with Nvidia in terms of features. Fast-forward to December 2023, and we have Intel selling processors with RT-enabled integrated graphics, which is exactly what AMD has been doing lately. The DX12 Ultimate era is here; it's safe to expect most games that will see the light of day in 2024 to require RT support.
Nvidia partners such as MSI still sell graphics cards as old as the GeForce GT 730 and even the GeForce 210. Will those products be discontinued within the next several months? Yes, chances are they will be, as even the current Turing-based GTX/GT cards are reportedly set to be discontinued very soon. The GeForce MX series might be the next to go - and with that move, Nvidia would officially pull out of the low-end market that is now utterly dominated by integrated graphics.
This does not mean that GTX/GT/GS/GTS cards will just stop working tomorrow. After all, when it comes to long-term software support, Nvidia is better than Intel and AMD are. But for those who are into gaming, the clock is now ticking more loudly than ever before. It's time to consider buying a brand-new graphics card, or a laptop powered by a brand-new graphics card.
