Techpower UP vient de publier un nouveau dossier trs intressant, qui retrace l’histoire de la gamme 60 de NVIDIA !
Cela pourrait s’intituler de Kepler, en 28 nm, Blackwell, en 5 nm. Les performances ont globalement t multiplies par 9, entre la GTX 660 et la rcente RTX 5060, sans que la consommation suive cette volution, le TDP demeure entre 120 et 150 Watts, pour un tarif qui n’volue que peu ou pas, si on prend en compte l’inflation, la gnration GTX 1060 est la plus marquante en termes d’volution brute de performances, suivie de la RTX 2060. Nos confrres mettent en avant les avances technologiques uniques des gnrations RTX, avec notamment le DLSS, un game changer pour eux, puis le frame generation et le multi frame generation !
Le dossier se nomme GeForce x60: History, Benchmarks, Image Quality.
In the early days of GeForce, NVIDIA’s naming was more numerical than philosophical. Cards like the GeForce 9600 GT and GTX 260 used “60” in their names, but they really didn’t define a consistent market segment. The GTX 260 in NVIDIA’s product stack was high-end, sitting right below the flagship, basically what RTX 5080 is today. This changed in 2010 with the GeForce GTX 460, which was the first card to truly establish what we now think of as “x60”: a balanced card, at not-too-high pricing, built with a mainstream GPU that works well for the everyday gamer.
From that moment, the x60-series became a measuring stick for balancethe card meant for most gamers, offering solid performance without the premium price tag. Each generation since has tried to refine that idea, blending new architectures, efficiency improvements, and just enough power to handle the latest games comfortably.