Although NVIDIA’s graphics cards have now arrived in the RTX 40 series, players with limited budgets may still choose graphics cards from a few years ago. RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 are still very popular even at the end of 2022, and are even ranked in the top 10 in the latest Steam players’ favorite graphics card statistics. The bad news is that recent news indicates that NVIDIA has officially discontinued the production of these two graphics cards, which means that in the near future, brand-new RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 may no longer be available on the market.
News points out that NVIDIA has officially discontinued production of its best-selling RTX 2060/GTX1660 series graphics cards.
According to foreign media VideoCardz, someone on the Chinese boardchannels website recently broke the news that NVIDIA announced that it would stop producing RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 series graphics cards.IT House also reported, and wrote that the person who broke the news was a supply chain person. The discontinued RTX 2060 series includes RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2060, and the GTX 1660 series includes GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1660. All stocks on the market will be gone after they are sold out, and they will no longer be produced in the future. At the same time, the focus of mid-range graphics cards will shift to the RTX 30 series.
The RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 series graphics cards were both launched by NVIDIA in 2019, and it has been about 4 years since then. Therefore, it is considered a long time, and the discontinuation of production is actually reasonable. However, these two are still graphics cards that many gamers will consider purchasing.
The picture below shows the ranking of graphics cards used by the most players on Steam. It can be seen that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 ranked 2nd in October, used by 6.10% of players, an increase of 0.91% compared to September. NVIDIA GeFoce GTX 1660 also ranked 8th in October, used by 2.74% of players, which also increased compared with September. 0.79%, not only are they in the top 10, this result also clearly shows that some players refer to this list to purchase these two series of graphics cards:
The leak did not mention the GTX 1660 Ti, so I am not sure whether the discontinued GTX 1660 series includes this one.
However, even if it is discontinued now, it is speculated that the RTX 2060/GTX1660 series will not be too difficult to buy, because the current price drop of the RTX 30 series and AMD RX 6000 series is quite serious. Compared with these two graphics cards from 4 years ago, they are more attractive. It may be necessary to wait until the price of the previous generation of graphics cards stabilizes before new products can be found. NVIDIA’s decision will also help RTX 30 sales and reduce inventory, especially RTX 3060.
Not surprisingly, in a few months, we should see the RTX 3060 surpass the RTX 2060 in the Steam rankings.
As for the RTX 40 series,Because RTX 4080 is priced too high, the sales are not very good now. A few days ago, a foreign online shopping platform even reduced the price of RTX 4080. It is rare to see a newly launched new graphics card also offering special discounts:
Source: KOCPC Chinese