The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 series is an intriguing addition to the company’s portfolio. This series was launched by Team Green to cover the lower-midrange gap left by the RTX 20 series. It has two sub-series and eight GPU SKUs under the same Turing architecture. NVIDIA marketed it in tandem with the RTX 20 series, acting as a non-RTX companion to it.
Currently one of NVIDIA’s most popular series is the GTX 16 series. The only non-RTX GPUs with a respectable price-to-performance ratio remain in this series. Additionally, these have been highly well-liked in mid-range gaming laptops. The GTX 16 series GPUs are still among the most accessible and reasonably priced compared to other NVIDIA products.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 GPU offerings
There are just two cards in the GTX 16 series, totaling eight variations. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is the entry-level graphics card. The fact that NVIDIA has produced multiple SKUs under the same name makes the GTX 1650 portfolio somewhat perplexing. The TU117 GPU and GDDR5 RAM were included with the original GTX 1650. Since then, NVIDIA has produced three variants: one with GDDR6, one with the TU106 GPU, and one with the TU116 GPU.
NVIDIA also offers a 1650 Ti edition for laptops and a Super variant with a TU116 GPU.
Next up is the GTX 1660, available in three flavors: base, Ti, and Super. These all use the same TU116 GPU as the 1650 Super. The GTX 1660 cards are the most potent NVIDIA GPUs available right now that don’t use ray tracing. Additionally, we recommend them in our NVIDIA GPU guide for this series.