Reviews: A GeForce GTX 1660 Threesome - MSI Ventus and Gaming X and Palit StormX

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/14/2019 02:00 PM | source: | 71 comment(s)

NVIDIA today launches their mainstream GeForce GTX 1660 that sits at roughly 219 USD. Not to confuse with the Ti model, this iteration of the graphics cards has 1408 shader processors and is tied towards 6GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX series is different from the RTX series in respect that they do not have Tensor or Raytracing cores. make no mistake though, this is Turing architecture based on the 12nm FF TU116 GPU.

The end result is a product that takes on the Radeon RX 580 and 590, and does that quite well. We have prepared three initial reviews for today, two from MSI and one Mini ITX version from Palit.

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HardwareCaps
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#5649819 Posted on: 03/14/2019 02:12 PM

Thanks! as I suspected. pretty much an RX 590 performance for 220$ at 110W.

not a massive leap but it will sell well because it's facing a 3 years old competition at this point.

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#5649826 Posted on: 03/14/2019 02:24 PM

590 performance as expected. Not the best but not the worst. Thing is that 580/590 are a two year old hardware.

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#5649830 Posted on: 03/14/2019 02:31 PM

Aside from the couple of more Nvidia optimised dx11 titles where it showed remarkable performance against AMD, it's indeed as direct an answer to 590 as one could imagine. Over here in my parts these seem slightly less expensive than 590 (like 20 euros), though, which would naturally attract a whole lot of people.

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#5649832 Posted on: 03/14/2019 02:35 PM

Hm, not really strong but it is gaming equal or better than furyX/590/980TI.

It loses to 1060 in firestrike. If it doesn't cost less than 220€ then it's a fail.

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#5649834 Posted on: 03/14/2019 02:38 PM

Hm, not really strong but it is gaming equal or better than furyX/590/980TI.

It loses to 1060 in firestrike. If it doesn't cost less than 220€ then it's a fail.
FS no longer is a good idication for gaming performance. time spy is a lot more modern and uses modern techniques.

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