GeForce 16 series
The GeForce 16 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, based on the Turing microarchitecture, announced in February 2019. The 16 series, commercialized within the same timeframe as the 20 series, aims to cover the entry level to midrange market, not addressed by the latter. As a result, the media have mainly compared it to AMD's Radeon RX 500 series of GPUs.

Architecture

The GeForce 16 series is based on the same Turing architecture used in the GeForce 20 series, omitting the Tensor (AI) and RT (ray tracing) cores exclusive to the 20 series. The 16 series does, however, retain the dedicated integer cores used for concurrent execution of integer and floating point operations. On March 18, 2019, Nvidia announced that via a driver update in April 2019 they would enable DirectX Raytracing on 16 series cards starting with GTX 1660, together with certain cards in the 10 series, a feature reserved to the RTX series up to that point.

Products 
The GeForce 16 series launched on February 23, 2019, with the announcement of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. The cards are PCIe 3.0 x16 cards, produced with TSMC's 12 nm FinFET process. On April 22, 2019, coinciding with the announcement of the GTX 1650, Nvidia announced laptops equipped with built-in GTX 1650 chipsets. TU117 doesn't support Nvidia Optical Flow, which is useful for motion interpolation software. All TU117 GPUs use Volta's NVENC encoder (which has a marginally better improvement over Pascal) instead of Turing's.

Reception 
Tom's Hardware criticized the GTX 1650, noting that the 8GB variant of the RX 570 is "[...] faster, less expensive and better able to handle games with big memory requirements."

Forbes described the GTX 1650 as "[...] a tempting choice for a super-small and power-efficient gaming PC [...]". However, "[...] when it comes to value and bang for your buck, AMD’s RX 570 is the clear choice overall."

PC Gamer described the GTX 1650 Super as a "[...] no-brainer" and a "[...] super easy recommendation [...]" over the original 1650, as it only costs $10 more and is "[...] consistently around 30 percent faster [...]". However, they criticized the small amount of VRAM (4GB) and noted that users who have a PC which does not have PCIe power cables available have to "[...] stick with the vanilla 1650 [...]" because the Super variant has a higher power consumption (75W vs 100W). Altogether, it has a "great overall value" and for now "[...] claims the crown for best budget graphics card", being consistently faster than the RX 580 and coming close to the RX 590 when the VRAM is not a limiting factor.

They found that the GTX 1660 Super "[...] almost makes the 1660 Ti look redundant [...]" and noted that "[...] it outperforms anything AMD currently offers in the same price range [...]", being "[...] about 20 percent faster than the RX 590 [...]".

References

External links
Official website

Computer-related introductions in 2019
Graphics processing units
1600 Series
Graphics cards