Conclusion

Final words and verdict

Palit might not offer the grandeur of hugely exquisite looking coolers, but you know what? They offer performance that is the same, their products are cooled well and are relatively silent. The icing on top of that cake is pricing, Palit always has a more budget conscience strategy in mind and I would not be surprised to see this product merely a tenner or two above the MSRP products, So yeah, Palit is doing that well. They save you money by not using complex RGB systems and backplates. The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and lower SKUs (yes, they will be released) are interesting. The performance sits in that GTX 1070 / Radeon Vega 56 range with some wins and losses here and there. At a price of 279 USD that really is not a bad proposition. The Gaming Pro OC and Dual OC products (the same aside from a minor Boost frequency difference ) edition from Palit might not have the worlds most fancy cooler or PCB design, it, however, looks just fine and performance good as well. 

Aesthetics

As stated the card does not come with fancy RGB options and does not have the mega hyper cooler. If you look at the photo above you can actually see the aluminum fins. It does have a dual-fan cooler with nice dark aesthetics. Overall not hyper fancy, but a good looking card right? 

Cooling & acoustic levels

The card tops out at roughly only 60 Degrees C while gaming. So that's not bad at all, the acoustics I'd rate as normal to silent, we doubt you'll ever hear the card once seated in a closed chassis, but if you listen carefully you can hear a bit of an airflow whir. We doubt you'd hear it when seated inside a close chassis though. We've heard no noticeable coil whine. But I do want to note that any graphics card at a high-enough FPS can make some coil whine. 

Overclocking

We've been able to push close to 11% of extra perf out of the card compared to the reference card. Both traditional overclocking, the OC Scanner was a little lower but overall roughly remains at that 10% level. The combination of memory, voltage settings will bring you a proper overclock. Once you've applied it, you get a few percent more performance. Nice to see is that we have been able to reach roughly 14.5, even 15 Gbps on the memory, and that does help. The card overall seems to be slightly more limited on the power limiter, it's not a lot though and likely was needed due to the compact design. 

Concluding

We feel the new GeForce GTX 1660 Ti series is definitely something the industry needs. Most consumers have put RTX cards on hold due to the sales price of the range, which is very steep. The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti certainly addresses the issue of offering a more competitive product. It offers GeForce GTX 1070 performance (mostly slightly above it) at what should be a far more interesting price. NVIDIA, however, is in a split, they also have to face the reality that this is a product that performs at a product and a feature level they've been offering for a long time now. So who is going to step up from the GTX 1000 series? Well, anyone with a GTX 1050 or perhaps 1060. But for that last product group, the performance increase isn't heaps. So for the 1660 Ti series to become successful, the price needs to stay below the 299 USD domain, period.  The Palit GamingPRO OC ticks most right boxes. The OC model (remember that is a distinction) is clocked properly at 1860 Mhz on the boost clock. That's Strix OC and Gaming X territory. The cooling manages well, 60 degrees C under load with fairly silent acoustics levels. There's also a 'DUAL OC' SKU out, it is the same product with the same cooler, yet clocked a whopping 9 MHz slower. So if you can find that model at a better price, we'd recommend that of course. The reference MSRP products will sell for roughly 279 USD, we expect 289~299 for this Gaming PRO OC revision. It's a good card, it tweaked properly on top of that factory tweak as well. So yeah, that did not disappoint us either, and that is worthy of a recommendation.

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