Nvidia is working on the Geforce GTX 1160 – Turing without ray tracing

After more than two years with the graphics architecture Pascal, Nvidia unveiled the consumer-oriented successor at the end of August 2018. The new architecture is called Turing and so far four graphics cards in the upper price and performance segment have been launched, where the Titan RTX is the latest and most powerful model. Common to all cards are, for example, RT cores, which enable ray tracing in real time.

Prior to the launch, there was speculation as to whether the Pascal-based GTX 1000 series would be followed by the RTX 1100 or RTX 2000 series, and with the results in hand, the latter variant applies. Now Videocardz reports that Nvidia can work with another graphics card series, where the prefix “RTX” can be erased.

The information originally comes from the Chinese website Expreview (payment wall), which has reportedly received marketing material from Nvidia. The material concerns the Geforce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card, but according to Videocardz, other information suggests that the model is in fact named Geforce GTX 1160.

Common to the two alternatives, however, is that the current “RTX” is replaced by “GTX”, while the architecture Turing is still visible under the hood. Turing contains different types of cores that, among other things, enable machine learning for edge smoothing (DLSS) and ray tracing, but the latter function is replaced by “Turing Shaders” for any graphics cards.

The graphics card of the current card is called TU116 and just like other Turing models, it is accompanied by GDDR6 memory. In recent weeks, information about the Geforce RTX 2060 has been hailed and according to Expreview, the card can be unveiled in mid-January 2019, together with the Geforce GTX 1100 or Geforce GTX 1600 series.

It is also worth mentioning that the source writes that a Geforce RTX 2050 will not be released in the future, but products in the lower performance segments will instead be seen in the alternative series. Nvidia has not officially presented the Geforce RTX 2060 or other Turing-based graphics cards, so it is unclear when and if these products will reach the market.

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