GTX 1660 Ti: First Turing graphics card without ray tracing
Let's be honest: RTX graphics cards are expensive as hell. Nvidia must have thought so too, and is now launching the first graphics card based on the Turing architecture without ray tracing and tensor cores.
The GTX 1660 Ti comes with the TU116-400-A1 chip. The die layout has been completely reorganised compared to the TU106 chip, which is installed on the RTX 2060 and 2070. The GPU has 1536 Cuda cores, 96 texture units, a base clock of 1500 MHz and 1770 MHz boost.
The card has 6 GB GDDR6 VRAM, which runs via a 192-bit bus interface. The memory is clocked at 12 Gbit/s, compared to 14 Gbit/s on the RTX cards. This results in a bandwidth of 288 GB/s. The GTX 1660 Ti has a TDP of 120 W, which corresponds to the GeForce GTX 1060.
According to the first leaked benchmarks, the 1660 Ti should deliver roughly the same performance as the GTX 1070, which has a TDP of 150 W, making the GTX 1660 Ti more efficient at 120 W.
Colleague Jan Heidenreich shows you which GTX 1660 Ti models we offer at the following link.
The Turing architecture is superior to the Pascal architecture, especially in terms of shader performance. A performance increase of 50 per cent per core can be expected here. Overall, the GTX 1660 Ti is said to be between 20 and 30 per cent faster than the GTX 1060, which is also the result of a leaked benchmark of "Final Fantasy XV" on Videocardz. The GTX 1660 Ti achieves 5000 points, six points more than a GTX 1070. Another leak on PC Builder's Club shows a performance increase of around 20 per cent in "Ashes of the Singularity" compared to the GTX 1060. . Nvidia is targeting entry-level users with the GTX 1660 Ti. However, the prices are relatively high at between 320 and 400 francs. Although the GTX 1060 was similarly expensive at launch. Nevertheless, the price difference to various models of the RTX 2060 is not particularly large and, depending on the model, may not even exist. As the RTX 2060 has 20 per cent more Cuda cores than the GTX 1660 TI, the few francs more for an RTX 2060 is a better investment. Somehow, the GTX 1660 Ti therefore seems superfluous. What do you think? Write your opinion in the comment column.
Update 22 January 2019, 15:30
As the first reviews from various sites show, the leaked information about the performance of the 1660 Ti is true. For example, Anandtech writes of an average performance increase of 36 per cent compared to the GTX 1060. PC Games Hardware comes to similar conclusions, with the reviewers emphasising above all that an upgrade is not worthwhile for owners of a GTX 1070 and that the VRAM of 6 GB is not enough.
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