NVIDIA Turing-Based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launched At $279 (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: NVIDIA has launched yet another graphics card today based on the company's new Turing GPU. This latest GPU, however, doesn't support NVIDIA's RTX ray-tracing technology or its DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) image quality tech. The new GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does, however, bring with it all of the other GPU architecture improvements NVIDIA Turing offers. The new TU116 GPU on board the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti supports concurrent integer and floating point instructions (rather than serializing integer and FP instructions), and it also has a redesigned cache structure with double the amount of L2 cache versus their predecessors, while its L1 cache has been outfitted with a wider memory bus that ultimately doubles the bandwidth. NVIDIA's TU116 has 1,536 active CUDA cores, which is a decent uptick from the GTX 1060, but less than the current gen RTX 2060. Cards will also come equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 memory at 12 Gbps for 288GB/s of bandwidth. Performance-wise, the new GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is typically slightly faster than a previous gen GeFore GTX 1070, and much faster than a GTX 1060. Cards should be available at retail in the next few days, starting at $279.

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Next gen wait then I suppose.

[Anonymous Coward]

I currently have a 1070, and this mess of cards is very weird.

The 2080's are to expensive for me, the 2060 and 2070's don't offer that much more for the price, and these mid range cards are about the same.

I had been hoping that nvidia, putting out all sorts of weird cards at so many levels might put out a 2060ti or 2070ti.

Otherwise its see y'all in 2-3- years.

At least the 1660ti seems to be good performance for the money.

Re:Next gen wait then I suppose.

[RickyShade]

Well, there's a couple of advantages to the 1660ti over the 1070 (which I also have). One is better framerates at resolutions higher than 1080p (and I'm at 1440), and then there's lower power consumption. Part of me wants to upgrade for those two facts alone. Selling my 1070 and getting one of these would make the 1660ti only come out to about $80, so it's worth considering.

Re:Next gen wait then I suppose.

[hairyfeet]

Uhhh...might want to reconsider friend, at least until they get the serious issues with the memory worked out. Look up "Nvidia GDDR 6 Failure" on YouTube and you'll see they are having some pretty damn high failure rates, turns out if you get cards that have memory made by one manufacturer (Micron IIRC) your card has a good chance of buying the farm rather quickly. Some of the big reviewers even ended up with cards that crapped out before they could finish their benchmarks so...yeah might want to hold off until they get the bugs out.

Re:Aaaaannd they gimped it with 6gb of ram

[gravewax]

I dislike Nvidia, But if you are after a high end gaming card now for mid range prices that is going to still be good for high end in 4-5 years NO ONE is making cards for you.

Re:Aaaaannd they gimped it with 6gb of ram

[Kjella]

The card'll be useless for high end gaming in about 4-5 years

A $280 card that'll be useless for high end gaming in 4-5 years? The horror. Seriously though, this is the first Turing card that's an okay upgrade, according to Anandtech this card is +36% perf, +12% price for a +21% price/perf improvement over the last gen. The RTX cards are a wash, more performance for more money. I really hope AMD can make a Zen-like comeback on the GPU side, right now their Radeon cards are aging as well as Bulldozer did...

Re:Oh fuck off nvidia.

[pushing-robot]

To be fair, nVidia has become a sort of advanced douchebag boyfriend to its core market.

"Hey babe, you know how I treated you bad last year since I was busy with that side piece? Well the bitch went crazy and dumped me, so I'm going to need you to put out for me a lot more since I'm used to two girls now and I got standards to keep up. And on weeknights wear this blond wig and let me call you Crypto."

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