MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OC review

Posted on: 03/16/2019 06:32 PM

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1. bit bus means nothing..... because the architectures are completely different. it's like comparing clocks between AMD and Nvidia, pointless
Nvidia has far better compression and VRAM management architecture, look at any performance level Nvidia will always do better with less bandwidth



it dos matter but not in the range of this cheap card
if this card was 256 bit 8g it would run better at higher resolutions and would pass their p/p range imho
nvidia seem to have petty damn good efficacy and they get away with it
believe me I have been bicthing at that since the 6800 to 7600gt days

Posted on: 03/18/2019 03:12 AM

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GTX 1060 3GB $199 launch price
GTX 1660 $219 launch price
GTX 1060 6GB $249 launch price

I'm assuming you're talking about the 6GB model of the 1060, since the 1660 is a decent bit faster then the 3GB model, in some titles being twice as fast as the 3GB model. Again, assuming you're talking about the 6GB model as well due to the fact that the review on this website doesn't show the 3GB model, and the differences between GTX 1060 3GB and 6GB are not just memory, but overall performance.

So, the GTX 1660 is faster then the GTX 1060 6GB and cost less then it did originally, and much faster then the GTX 1060 3GB and cost more then it did originally.

But i agree to the point you should just get a GTX 1660 ti if you're in the ballpark for this price of graphics card.

Just an example of the differences, but obviously, there are way more games then assassins creed odyssey,

Posted on: 03/18/2019 04:10 AM

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Fact is this: Do not care how much ram a graphics card is, UNLESS there is adequate, not one off situations, that show at your resolution you game at means a card with higher amount of ram would be better. ONLY take that singular game into the equation if it is the ONE game you plan on playing 99% of the time, which is up to you, but thats a YOU thing not an overall thing. Stop caring about the amount of ram a graphics card has, and start caring what the overall PERFORMANCE of the card is in the games YOU like to play is.

To be fair, the fact itself that the AMD VRAM hoggers have 1 or 2 games to fall back on in every thread makes the whole "VRAM is king" point moot. We're talking about 1 or 2 games out of hundreds. So yeah, it's actually an epeen muscle flex that just looks really childish.

There's hundreds of games that will completely ignore the 16gb HBM2 on RVII. Also, when you have 99 out of a 100 games not caring whether you have 8gb of VRAM or 11gb or 16gb. There's more to gpu performance than VRAM.

I've been seeing this "future proof" VRAM nonsense for years now. It used to be tiring. Now it's just funny.

"But bro, did you know that if you bought the 128gb R9 390x, it'll be more future proof than the RTX 9900x 16gb?"

Just lol.

Posted on: 03/18/2019 07:01 AM

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To be fair, the fact itself that the AMD VRAM hoggers have 1 or 2 games to fall back on in every thread makes the whole "VRAM is king" point moot. We're talking about 1 or 2 games out of hundreds. So yeah, it's actually an epeen muscle flex that just looks really childish.

There's hundreds of games that will completely ignore the 16gb HBM2 on RVII. Also, when you have 99 out of a 100 games not caring whether you have 8gb of VRAM or 11gb or 16gb. There's more to gpu performance than VRAM.

I've been seeing this "future proof" VRAM nonsense for years now. It used to be tiring. Now it's just funny.

"But bro, did you know that if you bought the 128gb R9 390x, it'll be more future proof than the RTX 9900x 16gb?"

Just lol.
haha True!....a 2060 6gb wipes the floor with an 8gb 580 or 590 ...

Edit: I also have a rx480 4GB that will kick the snot out of any 470 8GB .....why waste the vram?

Edit#2: a 1060 3GB totally annihilates a 1050ti 4GB .....again, why waste the vram if you can't utilize it?
and don't get me started on the the more cores War!....
8600k has only 6 and yet




utilization is everything not big numbers......much like the megapixel myth.

Posted on: 03/18/2019 12:43 PM

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haha True!....a 2060 6gb wipes the floor with an 8gb 580 or 590 ...

Edit: I also have a rx480 4GB that will kick the snot out of any 470 8GB .....why waste the vram?

Edit#2: a 1060 3GB totally annihilates a 1050ti 4GB .....again, why waste the vram if you can't utilize it?
and don't get me started on the the more cores War!....
8600k has only 6 and yet



It all comes down to making sure you buy the right card for what you're going to be using it for. Because nobody will convince me that a low end card (like r9 480) definitely needs 8gb vram when they're gaming on low/medium settings at 1080p.