Rumors about the future of the Nvidia Turing graphics cards have not disappeared since the arrival of the current GeForce RTX, with great uncertainty about a supposed GeForce RTX 2060. Now information comes to light that points to a GTX 1660 Ti and a GTX 1160.
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1160 based on Turing but without RTX
That looks like a bunch of names, but it’s actually pretty simple. The GeForce RTX 20 will be the only card that offers hardware support for RTX ray tracing, while the new GTX 11/16 will lack this support. Both series are based on the Turing architecture, the only difference is the support for RTX ray tracing and we’re starting from the Tensor core.
Videocardz reported that Nvidia will not release the RTX 2050 series graphics card, but a GTX 1160 based on TU116, which is believed to be the same GPU as the GTX 1660 Ti, but trimmed in its features. If the information is correct, Nvidia plans to launch Turing-based graphics cards without the company’s RT cores, making ray tracing an exclusive feature of high-end models.
Then the GTX 1660 Ti would be the expected RTX 2060, while the GTX 1160 Ti would be the RTX 2050. This information seems reasonable because these two cards would have such a small number of RT and tensor cores that they would not be practical, so Nvidia would have decided to eliminate them in order to save space in the die and thereby reduce manufacturing costs. However, they would still enjoy all the benefits Turing has introduced in traditional CUDA processing.
Do you think this information is correct and we will see Turing-based maps without RTX support?