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OcUK GTX1660TI review thread

Anyone who'd buy this over the V56 is crazy. Sure, the Sapphire one is a little more but the with a tiny bit of tweaking it will open up an even bigger gap over the 1660 Ti. Coupled with the extra VRAM and games it's a no-brainer.

Unless power consumption is REALLY important to you or G-sync capability is a must.
 
You can save £100 and you can get 8 Gigs of DDD5 Ram rather than 6 Gigs that Nvidia are only providing, despite the performance difference, with an AMD Radeon Sapphire RX570 8 Gig.
 
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Kirby Wurm said:
Anyone who'd buy this over the V56 is crazy. Sure, the Sapphire one is a little more but the with a tiny bit of tweaking it will open up an even bigger gap over the 1660 Ti. Coupled with the extra VRAM and games it's a no-brainer.

Unless power consumption is REALLY important to you or G-sync capability is a must.
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Actually if people downvolt and downclock the Vega56 to the same level of performance as the 1660ti, the power consumption may not even be much higher.
 
I picked one up today, but I had a very specific use case. I've been holding out to upgrade an MSI trident 3 8th (i5 8400/1050ti), which has a 230W external PSU. So i was looking for Maximum performance for the 120W's recommended for the GPU and it had to be an ITX card. I could have spent more (or even more and upgraded to the 330W psu) and got a 2060 and set the power limit to 80% but then it'll be running 1660 speeds anyway.

Been running fine all afternoon and is a massive upgrade from the 1050ti it came with and a lot quieter. I can see the budget cards will need to drop sub £250 given AMD's price drops.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Actually if people downvolt and downclock the Vega56 to the same level of performance as the 1660ti, the power consumption may not even be much higher.
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True but who'd want to pay more for the same performance? I get what you mean though, default settings as shown in reviews (mainly for reference cards) only tell half the story.
 
Kirby Wurm said:
True but who'd want to pay more for the same performance? I get what you mean though, default settings as shown in reviews (mainly for reference cards) only tell half the story.
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I think you misunderstood me. I agreed with what you said, and the additional point I was making is more toward the fact that the 1660ti is probably not even gonna that much lower in power-consumption or cooler running than the downvolted and downclocked Vega56 running at similar performance, so people can't even really use that as an argument to justify the higher price of the 1660Ti.
 
Regardless, buying a 1660ti will increase Nvidia's market share even more and raise prices of next gen. If you want Nvidia's next gen to be more competitive, surely it makes sense to buy Vega 56 now?
 
This is really what 1060 replacement needs to be but pricing is still over the top around £200 mark would be more realistic and if you are a upgrader looking for better 1440p or even trying to push for 4K on the cheap with some games you would be better waiting for next years die shrink were you will GTX 1080 performance for the sweet spot of the 120 watts power limit that a lot of would be console gamers aim for.
 
tamzzy said:
@Marine-RX179 quite interested to know where you get the undervolted power consumption figures from, for the Vega 56. Reason I'm interested is that anandtech puts the load system consumption for Vega 56 100w higher than the 1660ti.
One could conceivably run the 1660ti on a 300-350w PSU if one wished.

(Sauce: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nvidia-gtx-1660-ti-review-feat-evga-xc-gaming/15)
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I don't own the Vega56, but I own the Vega64 so I have some pretty good idea in terms of how reducing the voltage would massively reduce power-consumption.

But I did manage to find someone's post on Reddit, detailing his experience with undervolting his Vega56, and by dropping the voltage from 1200mV all the way down to 980mV, with the clock speed only with a small drop from 1550MHz down to 1520MHz , and with power-consumption reduced by significantly.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...initial_undervolting_experience_with_vega_56/

Keep in mind that the Vega56 probably only need the core clock at 1450MHz to match or beat the 1660Ti in performance, so the power consumption can be even lower thus further tweaking.
 
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JediFragger said:
Undervolted and the fan curve to max out at 2000rpm I gather these are quite good and not loud either (a bugbear of mine!) :)
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It is OK, but the Pulse cooler is better.
Blower advantage is cools better if running crossfire and runs cooler in micro/itx chassis.
 
tamzzy said:
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One could conceivably run the 1660ti on a 300-350w PSU if one wished.
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As i said in my post, i'm now running a i5 8400, 8GB ram, 1TB nvme, 1TB hd, 1660ti, in an msi trident case off a 230W external PSU.

Even if you could fit a vega 56 in there you wouldn't power it. The 1660Ti is an AMAZING card if power and space are an issue. (it has an 8pin cable but only draws ~120W, cards vary EVGA is 130W)

In a regular system i'd have the veg 56 all day long, even in my raven rvz02 i'd take the MSI blower over a 1660ti.
 
RynceWynd said:
in an msi trident case off a 230W external PSU.
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i know you did. however, i'm just going off the charts from anandtech, that shows a system consumption of 280-290w draw at the wall. which is ~260-270w once psu losses are taken into account.
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Marine-RX179 said:
But I did manage to find someone's post on Reddit, detailing his experience with undervolting his Vega56, and by dropping the voltage from 1200mV all the way down to 980mV, with the clock speed only with a small drop from 1550MHz down to 1520MHz , and with power-consumption reduced by significantly.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...initial_undervolting_experience_with_vega_56/

Keep in mind that the Vega56 probably only need the core clock at 1450MHz to match or beat the 1660Ti in performance, so the power consumption can be even lower thus further tweaking.
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that's all well and good, if the target audience wants to tweak their vega56, but i suspect the target audience for the 1660ti isn't that.
also with respect to undervolting, it should come with a disclaimer: YMMV. i suspect the stock voltage is what it is, to maximise AMD's yields.
so it is quite conceivable that there will be a proportion that will not be able to undervolt as much as this chappie has, and this reddit guy might've got lucky in the #siliconlottery draw.
 
tamzzy said:
i know you did. however, i'm just going off the charts from anandtech, that shows a system consumption of 280-290w draw at the wall. which is ~260-270w once psu losses are taken into account.
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that's all well and good, if the target audience wants to tweak their vega56, but i suspect the target audience for the 1660ti isn't that.
also with respect to undervolting, it should come with a disclaimer: YMMV. i suspect the stock voltage is what it is, to maximise AMD's yields.
so it is quite conceivable that there will be a proportion that will not be able to undervolt as much as this chappie has, and this reddit guy might've got lucky in the #siliconlottery draw.
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What was the cpu being used in that test and did watts used include the monitor.
 
tamzzy said:
that's all well and good, if the target audience wants to tweak their vega56, but i suspect the target audience for the 1660ti isn't that.
also with respect to undervolting, it should come with a disclaimer: YMMV. i suspect the stock voltage is what it is, to maximise AMD's yields.
so it is quite conceivable that there will be a proportion that will not be able to undervolt as much as this chappie has, and this reddit guy might've got lucky in the #siliconlottery draw.
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Don't get me wrong I got no beef with the 1660ti hardware wise. As someone have said there's no such thing as a poor card, but just poorly price card.

Had the 1660Ti launched at £200-£240 instead of £260~£300+, people wouldn't criticise it as harshly as being a "1070 with 2GB less vram after nearly 3 years". With higher pricing, people will have higher expectation, and also comparing it to what already exist(ed).
 
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