well well well another day and another major launch in the graphics card realm
it seems like the last few months have been filled with these I mean honestly
guys it started with the RTX a series back in October and then it later on
continued with Nvidia's launch of the RX 590 and then the Iranian seven and
now it's Nvidia's turn again but in a very different way that people are
expecting so these are examples of the gtx 1660 TI yep gtx 1000 series is
making a comeback and I'm super stoked about that
now what exactly it's a gtx 1660 TI well I'm gonna make this explanation as
simple as possible before getting into the performance results in short what
NVIDIA has done is taking the touring architecture from the RTX cards and cut
out both the tensor and RT partitions what we're left with is what's called a
tu 1 1 6 which is GPU core without any rtx features so forget about running
things like DLSS or ray-tracing however it uses the brand new touring
architecture with a 12 nanometer manufacturing process so shady
performance is loads better than a gtx 1060 for example the cool thing here is
that along with the turing architecture enhancements the gtx 1660 TI also gets
its enhanced n VNC encoder and NV dec decoder capabilities that's a pretty big
deal for streamers the reason for the lack of rtx features on the 1660 TI
brings us back to what Dimitri said when he was testing out battlefield 5 right
now ray tracing and other AI operations take a ton of resources even with the
tensor and RT cores helping out and that means lower end graphics cards
would be able to offer a good gameplay experience and guess what that'll cause
some of invidious key technologies to be only available for people who are
willing to spend a big chunk of money on these expensive RTX GPUs and I wonder
how that'll affect RTX game development probably not that well now for my specs
and pricing standpoint the GTX 1660 Ti sits right in between the GTX 1060 6
gigabyte and the RTX 2060 it'll start up $280 and as 1536 CUDA cores and 6
gigabytes of 12 gigabits per sec GDD our sex memory operating over 192
bit memory bus it'll start at $280 which happens to be $30 more than what this
1060 launched but it's $70 less than the lowest-priced rtx 2060's
do note that nvidia won't have a Founders Edition on this one though as
for clock speeds the reference boards will have a booth speed of 17 70
megahertz the EVGA gtx 1660 ti XC Black Edition that I have over here hits those
reference speeds and also Nvidia's $280 starting price we actually saw its
boost frequency hit 18 80 megahertz pretty regularly though the MSI gaming X
version is a different beast on the other hand it comes pre overclocked and
with a pretty hefty 310 price tag but it's levelled out around 1950 megahertz
in most games so expect a few FPS improvement the problem might be its
price since $310 puts msi really close to lower priced RTX 2060 cards but
don't forget the 2060s boot speeds are only around 1700 megahertz so it'll be
interesting to see how closely MSI 1660 I can get speaking of the msi card I
actually like its looks a lot more than EVGA s honestly I don't know what EVGA
was even thinking with this triple of slot design the gtx 660ti is supposed to
be an efficient card which would make it perfect for ITX cases and while most of
those can handle a card as long as the gaming X the triple slot ebj monster
could face some serious mounting and ventilation issues I also like the
stealth black and grey finish on the MSI card and the best part is that it comes
with a backplate that looks absolutely gorgeous and you know this would fit in
perfectly for a completely stealth lookin build that doesn't really you
know pop out that well and I appreciate that
now the ironic thing here is that when testing both of these cards they both
hit a constant temperature of 64 C under load but the single EVGA fan needed to
spin at faster speeds and that resulted in louder acoustic performance while
it's trying to push enough air through the ultra thick heatsink now jumping
into power consumption before the rest of the benchmarks these cards are really
efficient even though they operate at higher speeds and have a lot more course
than the GTX 1060 alright guys so it's time for the rest of benchmark results
I'm going to use the same over 7900X test system as usual and if any
of these pass by too quickly feel free to pause as you can see the gtx 660ti is
a pretty interesting card especially against the RX 590 remember even though
that you can find at rx 590 around $260 it was launched only a few months ago
for $280 right now it looks like the $280 EVGA card is a much better value
overall than what AMD is offering most of the time it actually hangs right in
with a bag of 56 against the Nvidia cards the gtx 1660 ti looks pretty good
too it's easily 25 to 40 percent faster than the GTX 1060 but make sure you keep
in mind that the card starts at $200 so if you're looking to save a few bucks
that could be a good route to actually if you want to draw a parallel the RTX
1660 TI performs a lot like a slightly overclocked gtx 1070 but it does fall
behind a bit at 1440p due to its smaller memory footprint the most interesting
thing here about these results is how closely the pre overclocked MSI gaming X
gets to the RTX 2060 founders Edition especially when you've lower 1% of frame
rates are compared sure there are times when the RTX 2060 is able to pull
way ahead and the 1660 TI doesn't really have any RTX's features the
only problem with the gaming X is its price it only offers 3 to 5% more
performance than EVGA card but it costs $30 more personally I don't think that's
worth it but I don't really like the EVGA design either I'd rather find a 1660 ti
that goes for round 2 earned $80 and offers a cleaner double slot cooler
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below well guys that about wraps things up and I have to say that the gtx 1660 ti
is a pretty exciting card provided you can find one at $280 but it also raises
a huge number of questions Nvidia has been beating their rtx jump
for months now so to suddenly see a card without it feels a bit weird not only
that but based on what we've been told RTX features won't be available on any
card that they launch for under $300 so that's basically a huge percentage of
their customers that won't be running a compatible GPU now since ray tracing and
some AI is just a lot harder to run I completely understand why Nvidia is
doing this but convincing developers to build rtx enable games might have just
become a lot harder but ignoring RTX and taking the gtx 660ti for what it is
i'm pretty impressed with a bit of overclocking you can get very close to
RTX 2060 performance for about $70 less sure the 2060 does provide a bit more
consistent performance across every title especially at 1440p but it's now
become really hard to recommend the gtx 1660 ti is just hard to beat and it
actually makes the RTX 590 completely overpriced now just watch out for the
MSI gaming X because it is very expensive
and for what you're getting the gain is just very minimal so that pretty much
wraps up the gtx 1660 ti performance review I hope you guys enjoyed this one
let me know what you guys think about the performance results and whether or
not if you would be considering or recommending a card like the 1660 TI to
a friend of yours who's looking to hire in a build system within a particular
budget considering that it costs or it starts at two hundred eighty eighty
dollars two hundred eighty dollars yeah anyways let me know the comments down
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