Nvidia Delays Release of GTX 1630

It's fairly common practice for the tech industry to delay the launch of a product, and more often than not, there's a legitimate reason. The same can't really be said for everyone, as Intel's Arc desktop graphics cards may not arrive until Q4, which is a yawning gulf away from when it was first expected. The likes of AMD and Nvidia are no strangers to pushing dates back, either, and in this instance it looks as though team green has changed the release date of an upcoming GPU.

That's according to a recent report from Videocardz, which cites its own sources in stating that Nvidia has delayed the launch of the GTX 1630, a card which is actually based off the Turing architecture from the previous generation. The report goes on to say that the new date for the GPU is "to be determined," which will leave many in the dark. It was initially supposed to be launching very soon, and the reason for the pushback is apparently down to problems "securing the necessary components" and not in relation to the actual GPU itself.

Rumors began to circulate last month that Nvidia may release a new GTX graphics card, one that would allegedly be a proper replacement for the 1050 Ti, which originally came out in 2016. With a TDP of just 75W, and 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 12 Gbps bus, the 1630 will obviously represent the much lower-end of the industry, suitable for those who are after a cheap card. Despite the delay, it seems as though board partners were provided with a Go To Market Kit on May 31, and the first graphics cards have already been manufactured.

On top of that, it was revealed recently that Nvidia may have also delayed the RTX 40-series. Originally, it was thought that the RTX 4090 would be coming this August, with additional models following in subsequent months. However, it's possible that team green has delayed the launch by one month, so it's looking more like a September release window.

Given that AMD may launch its RDNA 3 by October at the earliest, both of these tech giants will once again be battling it out for industry supremacy. With Intel being left behind to seemingly fend for itself, both AMD and Nvidia are making headway in getting the next generation of graphics cards out on shelves. That all sounds good, so long as the market begins to improve after all the shortages.