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ireadtabloids said:

I’ve noticed Nvidia and AMD not releasing lower tiers of dedicated GPUs like they used to.
Nvidia didn’t release anything below 1650 last generation.
The previous generation bottomed out at 1030, and the generation before that was 910/920.

Unlike a few years ago... Integrated graphics are no longer integrated into the motherboard chipset, but rather is a CPU feature... And Intel and AMD still sell 10's of millions of processors without Integrated graphics.

In nVidia's case, they didn't see the need to release a GPU lower than the 1650/RTX lineup as the Pascal based 1030 and 1050 were still selling and filling those roles. (And nVidia is still manufacturing and supporting them.)
Heck even Geforce 710 GPU's are still being released.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15713/asus-launches-an-old-gpu-the-nvidia-gt-710-with-four-hdmi-ports

In AMD's case they did release the Radeon 5300XT... With the RX520, 530, 540 and 550 still being around in places.

Manufacturing and DRAM just hasn't gotten to a point where those low-end GPU's can get any value-added improvements sadly, especially on a congested 7nm process, but that will change in time.




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