Nvidia reportedly halts manufacturing of RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 GPUs almost 4 years after launch

Nvidia has reportedly ended manufacturing on 4 of its graphics playing cards: the RTX 2060 Tremendous, RTX 2060, GTX 1660 Tremendous, and GTX 1660, in an obvious focus shift to having the RTX 30-series playing cards fill the entry-level GPU hole. This marks the tip of a few of Nvidia’s hottest GPUs. 

This report from IT House (noticed by WCCFtech) says that suppliers instructed the outlet that Nvidia had stopped manufacturing on the 4 GPU SKUs and that each one the prevailing stock has been offered. So no matter is left on retailer cabinets would be the final we’ll see of these GPUs if the report is to be believed. 

Nvidia lately mentioned in a report that its gaming gross sales had been massively down and was working to ‘modify channel costs’ at a time when so lots of its GPUs had been available on the market and demand had fallen considerably. The droop in demand is considerably linked to ethereum shifting to a proof-of-stake algorithm that now not requires large-scale GPU mining. Now that the second-hand market is flooded with these older GPUs, it is sensible that Nvidia is able to sundown these playing cards and filter out its remaining stock. 

In line with final October’s Steam {hardware} survey, the RTX 2060 is the second commonest GPU for Steam customers globally, up from 5.19% to six.10% from September 2022. 

Again in 2021, the RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Tremendous had been put again in manufacturing on the top of the GPU scarcity, and when RTX 30-series graphics playing cards had been almost unattainable to trace down and promoting waaaaay above MSRP on eBay. 

This is hoping that at the moment’s information means Nvidia will begin to slash the pricing on its finances RTX 30-series playing cards just like the RTX 3060. That exact graphics card is nice sufficient for us in video games however it’s just too costly, particularly versus the competitors from AMD straight away.