Turing Discussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvi...027-7.html

If you’re gaming at 1920 x 1080, the 1660 Ti’s speed may seem a bit superfluous in light of the vanilla 1660’s smooth frame rates at an even more attractive $220/£200 price point. In fact, according to our calculations, GeForce GTX 1660 would seem to take the crown in a comparison of average frame rate per dollar, usurping GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, the respectable GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, and GeForce RTX 2060.

But does it really? When we fold in benchmark results from the older Radeon RX 580, generated by Tom’s Hardware Germany using a similar test system, and then apply U.S. pricing, AMD’s card scores just a bit better. Granted, it gets wrecked when we switch to a performance per watt comparison. If you’re not really concerned about power consumption, though, it’s really hard to pass on an 8GB Radeon RX 580, currently available at $190, for 1080p gaming.

Even if AMD’s Radeon RX 580 blowout comes to an end, the GeForce GTX 1660 will remain a solid pairing with high-refresh FHD displays. It’s less QHD-friendly than GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, and we’d suggest stepping up to at least a GeForce RTX 2060 if you’re playing at 2560 x 1440. However, when push comes to shove, you can dial down your favorite game’s detail settings to achieve respectable frame rates at higher resolutions on GTX 1660, too.

We approved of GeForce GTX 1660 Ti for its GeForce GTX 1070-like performance at a price point under $300 (and 120W power consumption). Similarly, we like that GeForce GTX 1660 drives great 1080p frame rates at $220. And we’re even more excited that there’s a competing card from AMD with real value chops we can mention in the same breath.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA...ra/35.html

With GeForce GTX 1660, NVIDIA is clearly attacking AMD's Radeon RX 590 offering. The GTX 1660 is based on the same TU116 graphics processor that we saw on the GTX 1660 Ti not long ago. Besides shader count and clock frequencies the biggest difference between both cards is certainly that GTX 1660 uses GDDR5 memory whereas the GTX 1660 Ti uses GDDR6. Unlike other Turing GPUs, TU116 does not feature acceleration for RTX real-time raytracing or DLSS because the specialized hardware consumes a significant portion of the die area on other Turing GPUs, which increases manufacturing cost significantly. NVIDIA did keep the other improvements of Turing though, like larger caches, concurrent execution of float and integer operations, and adaptive/variable rate shading.

As a result, when averaged over all our gaming benchmarks at 1080p, we see the EVGA GTX 1660 XC Ultra beat AMD's Radeon RX 590, by a solid 11% margin. The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and last generation's GTX 1070 are 12% faster. With 20% higher performance than GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, at slightly higher pricing, the GTX 1660 is in a position to conclusively replace the GTX 1060 easily. EVGA gave their card a mild overclock, to 1845 MHz rated Boost, which is a 60 MHz increase — not a lot. With those performance results, the GTX 1660 is a good choice for gamers running high details with a 1080p Full HD monitor. Compared to GTX 1660 Ti you do have to sacrifice a little bit of settings to reach 60 FPS, but you'll save good money while doing so.
...
Compared to Pascal, Turing improved power-efficiency once more, and the GTX 1660 is no exception. EVGA's GTX 1660 XC Ultra uses only 110 W during gaming, which is even more impressive when you consider how much gaming performance the card has in it. Even compared to the latest Turing RTX GPUs, the GTX 1660 achieves 10% better performance per watt. Against AMD's Radeon RX 590, which was just recently released and uses a 12 nm production process too, the GTX 1660 is 2.5x more power-efficient; that's 250%!
...
It looks like the aging GTX 1060 6 GB has finally found a worthy successor. The GTX 1660 offers better performance and efficiency, at a similar price point — NVIDIA will sell millions of these. AMD's Radeon RX 590 will be a tough sale now. GTX 1660 is faster, cooler, quieter and cheaper — all at the same time. The only win for RX 590 is that it comes with a strong three-game bundle, which could offset your cost significantly. NVIDIA doesn't bundle any games with GTX 1660, but EVGA has stepped up and is offering the Grip racing game with their GTX 1660. I have no doubt that AMD will quickly adjust their pricing to address the changed market conditions. Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 have already seen price drops, down to $130 and $170, respectively. Especially RX 570 is now at a price point that is so low that many people are going to be willing to overlook its shortcomings both in performance and noise levels — and the two-out-of-three game bundle will help here there, too.