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GTX 1660TI
- Thread starter RavenXXX2
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Because Turing is a whole new architecture with a lot of big changes under the hood. this was Somewhat glossed over because nvidia focused on RTX and DLSS giving people the false impression that Turing is pascal with RTX+Tensor cores bolted on. The reality is Turing is a big step up in IPC, efficiency, load balancing, and normalized performance with new features such as mixed-precision OPS, unified memory, concurrent FP and INT ops, variable rate shading, along with twice the cache size.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-review-feat-evga-xc-gaming/2
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13282/nvidia-turing-architecture-deep-dive/4
Soldato
I think it kinda makes the 590 looks a little silly, not much cheaper (£20) but chunk slower, and twice the power of a 1660ti. Vega 56 is great value but AMD will be taking a hit/making a loss. The Free games you get the 590/V56 is a boon on the value front (if you want them) but they won't be there forever.
Navi really needs to come soon and have at least twice the performance per watt.
Navi really needs to come soon and have at least twice the performance per watt.
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Under 300 Actually
Palit GeForce RTX 2060 StormX 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £299.99 inc VAT
NE62060018J9-161F, Boost Clock: 1680MHz, Memory: 6144MB 14000MHz GDDR6, Cuda Cores: 1920, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, NVIDIA Turing, 12nm Process, Real-Time Ray Tracing, 2 Years Warranty
Only £299.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW
Under 300 Actually
No game listed with that one though?
Soldato
Very impressed with reviews BUT not £259+ with no game bundle which made GTX 1660 Ti very poor value.
You would much better off buy Palit RTX 2060 for just £299 with 1 free game worth £54.95 of your choice either Battlefield V or Anthem plus it has RT and Tensor cores enabled.
Guess GTX 1660 Ti has hidden or disabled 192 Tensor cores.
You would much better off buy Palit RTX 2060 for just £299 with 1 free game worth £54.95 of your choice either Battlefield V or Anthem plus it has RT and Tensor cores enabled.
Guess GTX 1660 Ti has hidden or disabled 192 Tensor cores.
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I was just stating that you can *technically* get a 2060 for under 300 quid.
Soldato
I am sure it has 1 game bundle cos competitors already has free game bundle included at similar price.
I've added the game bundle now, so should appear soon.
Why are you making it so hard for me to resist upgrading my wife's 1060????
(She wants Anthem)
Soldato
It has no tensor cores,but instead has dedicated FP16 cores:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-review-feat-evga-xc-gaming/2
Under 300 Actually
Palit GeForce RTX 2060 StormX 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £299.99 inc VAT
NE62060018J9-161F, Boost Clock: 1680MHz, Memory: 6144MB 14000MHz GDDR6, Cuda Cores: 1920, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, NVIDIA Turing, 12nm Process, Real-Time Ray Tracing, 2 Years Warranty
Only £299.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW
Well that kinda shows that the 1660ti is just too expensive. Not a bad card but certainly not a good price.
Soldato
doesn't look to be a terrible set of results coming out for it, but then again it is nothing special at the price point I guess,
Shame, was interested to see if it was a mid-range beasty
The love for the 980ti continues in my household then
Shame, was interested to see if it was a mid-range beasty
The love for the 980ti continues in my household then
not so sure, depends on where you bought it from, of course. if the 1070 was sub-£200 yes, definitely the 1070 is the better deal.
but for 30 notes more, at £260, the 1660ti has 5 years warranty with zotac
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True. I like MSI though
I've not had any bad experience with second hand stuff (don't buy it that often). I assume thats what seller feedback scores are for. I'd even have no problem buying from a cyptominer - surely that proves the card stands up to being tortured 24/7/365? If that ain't a solid card I don't know what is!
Also I wanted a card with that zero fan tech on it which you have to be careful you get, the lower cost cards don't always have that.
I've not had any bad experience with second hand stuff (don't buy it that often). I assume thats what seller feedback scores are for. I'd even have no problem buying from a cyptominer - surely that proves the card stands up to being tortured 24/7/365? If that ain't a solid card I don't know what is!
Also I wanted a card with that zero fan tech on it which you have to be careful you get, the lower cost cards don't always have that.
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I don't see a free game? What is it?
@keyser thing is, hard to predict when the GPU will fail...may be 10 years, may be 10 minutes.
if bought preowned, unless the original buyer agrees to help with the RMA (if still within warranty period), will be SOL.
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if bought preowned, unless the original buyer agrees to help with the RMA (if still within warranty period), will be SOL.
ah. my bad. mistaken. it's for 2060/2070 only
post edited aboveI've never known a GPU or CPU to fail tbh. Motherboards yes (at work) and power supplies (2 at home under warranty, loads at work). I guess its anything with capacitors that can go. It's a risk/reward ratio, I'm fine with it. It's a stop gap upgrade before a big one next generation (maybe, depends if that gen doesn't suck).
My Z77 motherboard is out of warranty!! maybe I shouldn't overclock it.. nah
My Z77 motherboard is out of warranty!! maybe I shouldn't overclock it.. nah