It's been a trying time for anyone looking for a new Nvidia or AMD graphics card this past year and a half. Fortunately, it appears as though the market is healing now, which is good timing, seeing as the next GPU generation is just a few months away. With the former's Ada Lovelace possibly coming this September and the latter's RDNA 3 cards aiming for an October release, now appears to be the closing moments of this era. However, that's not before team green gets one more product out.
According to a couple of reports from Videocardz, it looks as though Nvidia is ready to launch the GTX 1630, and it is rumored to be coming out tomorrow, June 28. There's also been an update to retailer Colorful's website, which appears to confirm the budget graphics card's impending release. This GPU will represent the low end of the hardware range, and as the prefix GTX suggests, is actually based off the Turing architecture, which was originally released back in 2018.
This latest news comes after the card's released was said to have been pushed back. It was announced not long ago that Nvidia had delayed the release of the GTX 1630, but at the time it was unclear when it would be coming out. In terms of the hardware's specs, the 1630 will feature 4 GB of GDDR6 RAM but will be on a 64-bit memory bus, rather than the 128-bit bus of the GTX 1650 and 1050 Ti cards from the same generation. It will, however, sport a speedier boost clock than the other two models and will have a TDP of 75W. In general, this will be a more suitable card for anyone looking for something much cheaper, but with lower specifications.
With Intel having just launched its Arc desktop GPUs, but only in China for the time being, the race continues for all three tech giants to be number one in the industry. Unfortunately, team blue seems to have struggled to make any significant headway so far and could be left behind once the new generation kicks in later this year.
Of course, Nvidia will still have its old rival to battle it out with. Given that AMD is supposedly working on a very powerful RDNA 3, team green will definitely have its work cut out for it. Having said that, it's still early days yet, but it looks as though both companies won't have much to fear from the newcomers. At least not yet, anyway.
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