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.

Architecture

The GeForce 16 series is based on the same Turing architecture used in the GeForce 20 series, omitting the Tensor and RT 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 the 16 series cards, 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 22, 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 than Turing's.