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welcome back to Harper unboxed my week-long break is now over I've had my fun fishing it's time to get back into work and what better way to do it than tackle a 33 game benchmark and I'll be doing so featuring the new gtx 60 and 60 i promise you guys that I would do a comprehensive benchmark with the new budget trend GPU so here we are but before we get into that big benchmark I would like to thank Corsair for sponsoring our work and on hand we have then you dominate up platinum RGB memory this new ddr4 memory packs tightly screened high frequency memory chips providing speeds of up to 48 hundred mega transfers per second and while high frequencies big capacities and low latency timings and what the Dominator series is all about this new platinum RGB memory also looks the part with a dozen ultra bright individually addressable RGB LEDs encased in a high-quality aluminum heat spreader for more information check them out via the link in the video description now for those of you who missed it our day one review featured a dozen games many of them were very recently released titles when we found that in these newer games the GTX 1660 came out looking pretty great I don't expect this 33 game benchmark will change too much but it should serve as a decent buying guide for those tossing up between say the GTX 1660 and perhaps the Radeon rx 580 maybe even the 590 the fact that the new GeForce GPU is around 30% faster and Assassin's Creed Odyssey might not matter that much if you predominantly play titles such as Strange Brigade battlefield 5 or Sniper Elite 4 for example so to give you an idea of how these two GPUs and many more comparing a wide range of games we have a 33 game benchmark the focus once again will be on the more popular 1080p resolution but I've also tested at 1440p as well and will look at some of those results in a moment also for those of you after the results for all 33 games at 1440p then please head over to our patreon page where you can find all those graphs for free the link will be in the video description now before we get into the results a few quick notes on the test system the test tree includes a core I nine ninety nine cake locked at five gigahertz using thirty two gigabytes of ddr4 3200 memory as for the drivers we used adrenaline 2019 Edition at nineteen point two point three for the radeon gpus and game ready for 1935 whq l for the geforce GPUs okay let's get into the results kick starting off this benchmark session we have the Division two brand new title and this is the first time we've actually benchmarked with this game and rather than use the canned benchmark I will be recording using in-game performance though as Tim found the in-game performance is very similar to what you see in the built-in benchmark anyway here we see at tally P that the GTX 1660 is good for 68 FPS on average using the ultra quality preset that figure drops down to just 46 fps and while playable you'll probably want to do some tweaking here to improve the frame rates and again Tim has a pretty useful guide on exactly how to do just that anyway as it stands the 1660 was 15 percent faster than the GTX 1060 but eight percent sold in the rx 590 assassin's creed Odyssey is a pretty bad title for AMD and here we see the GTX 1660 basically matching Vega 64 so yeah don't expect to see that too often this also meant while it was just 12 percent fast on the GTX 1066 ago but it was 28% faster than the radiant rx 590 then at the higher 1440p resolution we see a slight shift in the results here the 1660 still maintained a reasonable lead over the 1060 rx 590 and 580 but was now seen slipping behind the Vega GPUs though not by a significant margin it has to be said next up we have strange Brigade and here the GTX 1660 really isn't that impressive in fact it's only able to match the gtx 1066 EG but at an EP making it quite a bit slower than the Radeon competition much the same has also sent at 1440p though here the 1660 is able to just edge out the six gigabyte 1060 still though this meant it was slower than the Radeon rx 570 so obviously not a great result therefore Nvidia despite that though the gtex 1660 is back on top for our Star Wars Battlefront to test here at found itself situated between the rx 590 and gtx 1070 so not a bad position for a $220 US graphics card to find itself and with 85 FPS on average it kind of found itself in a category of its own here then at 1440p we do find a similar situation here the 1660 was 17% fast in the RX 590 and 22% faster than the six gigabyte gtx 1060 having said all that it was still 15% slower than the geforce gtx 1070 moving on to monster hunter world and here we have the gtx 1660 basically matching the RX 519 this matter a few frames fast the gtx 1066 here bytes so nothing too exciting here then and we also see much the same story at 1440p and they spent the gtx 1660 was 20% slower than the TI version next up we have warframe in here the gtx 1660 offered a small performance gain over the gtx 1066 you might as well as the Radeon RX 590 that said every GPU tested was good for over 100 FPS on average so the win here really isn't that much of a big deal things become a little more challenging at 1440p but even so the 1660 was still good for a 1% low result of 90 FPS on an average frame rate of 109 FPS and all this meant that it was just 9 percent faster than the old Pascal based GTX 1060 so again not a terribly exciting result here now f1 fans will enjoy what the GTX 1660 has to offer at Tony Pete was 11% fast and the similarly priced rx 590 an 18% fast in the oldest suit gigabyte 1060 it was also just 16 percent slower than the geforce gtx 1070 and radeon RX vega 56 and as we've seen time and time again much the same while seen at 1440p though here it manages to close the gap to the gtx 1070 while vega 56 gets a little further away still overall performance was strong with 61 FPS on average and finally the last game that we're gonna discuss the results for is the Witcher 3 and here the 1660 was only able to match the rx 590 and some presently was 3% slower than the old gtx 1066 gigabyte so i guess that means we're ending on a very disappointing result here for the new budget cheering GPU and performance really wasn't much better at 1440p either here the 1660 only matched the 1060 placing it roughly on par with the Radeon rx 590 okay so let's start to wrap all this testing up here is the breakdown of all 33 games tested so far comparing the gtx 1660 and radiant rx 590 at 1080p again if you want to see any of the graphs for these games at either 1080p or 1440p you can just head over to our patreon page they're all provided there for free so yeah if there's any particular games you want to see a bit more information for you can do so anyway getting back to this comparison we see that overall the GeForce GPU was on average 5% faster that's down from an 8% win in our original 12 game sample so while the performance margin has shrunk a little the Turing GPU still came out on top and it did so by winning by five percent margin or greater and 16 of the 33 games tested meanwhile the RX 590 was faster by a 5% margin or greater in just 5 of the games so even though AMD has now matched the price of the gtx 1660 with their RX 590 they'll need to do better than that for us to recommend the RX 590 over the gtx 1660 then when compared to the gtx 1060 we said the margin is dropped quite a bit previously the gtx 1660 was 21% faster for the 12 game sample and that was featured in our day 1 coverage and now with 33 games it is just 14% faster that's a pretty big difference and I suspected the 1660 generally does much better in newer titles older games such as The Witcher 3 World of Tanks project Cars 2 and so on don't hand the cheering architecture much of an advantage over Pascal finally when compared head-to-head with the gtx 1660 t either vanilla 1660 was 15% slower and that's very much in line with our previous test which saw the non TI model come in 13% slower of course at times the margin did grow to 20% or more and we saw this in half a dozen titles all right time for a cost per frame analysis and he will at the typical asking prices for each GPU the RX 580 has dropped down from $200 us to just $190 us a few people made a big deal out of this in our day loan coverage coverage that I explained was prepared a week in advance because I was taking a holiday anyway truth is a $10 price drop doesn't really change much yes the rx 580 is slightly better than the gtx 1660 in terms of value with that $10 price drop but of course there's not really that much in it essentially this means you can save around 10% on the cost of the graphics card to have 10% of the performance shaved off the rx 590 that has seen some pretty hefty price cuts recently and with numerous models now available for just 220 dollars u.s. it's finally come down to the price that it really should have launched at giving it a little slower than the 1660 but cost the same amount it's obviously not quite as good in terms of value truth be told the only clear winner for AMD right now is the rx 570 but it's roughly 25% slot on the GTX 1660 so they aren't exactly in the same performance category for that we'll probably have to wait for the GTX 1650 meanwhile the RX 580 is gone from being the best value sub $250 us option to a rather tough sell now of course it's best to look at performance in the games you'll actually be playing if you primarily play dirt 4 in battlefield 5 for example then the rx 580 of 590 is the better choice that said as we just saw there are far more games where the GTX 1660 gets the better of the Radeon GPUs now if you're on the fence and regards to individual game performance either because the performance is mixed across the games you intend on playing or you're planning on keeping the graphics card for two to three years and you really have no idea how things will look even just six to 12 months down the track what else can you look at to help you make this purchase power consumption is worth keeping in mind and not because we're worried about the power bill but because a more efficient graphics card is a quieter graphics card and it's also more friendly to the other components that it shares your case with as it's not dumping as much heat on them the GTX 16 60 pushed our test systems consumption to just 262 watts that's a 12 percent saving compared to the five seventy and almost a 30% saving when compared to the rx five eighty and five ninety it's also worth noting that if we were looking at power consumption for just the graphics card those margins would increase quite significantly so the Turing GPU is really are much better in this regard for me personally I think the almost 100 watt saving would be enough to steer me in the direction of the GTX 1660 so despite a few small changes in pricing for the array young competition not much has changed really since our original review it was published about a week ago now the biggest changes really have come from the sheer volume of games that were tested in this video and the GTX 1660s lead over the RX 590 for example that has shrunk a little bit while the RX 5 90s price has also shrunk a little as well so those two are much more evenly matched now but I feel for the radio and GPU to be the obvious choice it really needs to be priced closer to $200 u.s. it was pretty shocking to see the GTX 1662 lead over the GTX 1066 gigabyte I shrivel up quite a bit previously it was 21% faster and in this video we found it to be just 14% faster when using 33 games and that said I did note in the day one review that depending on the title used for testing the margins between the GPUs could vary quite significantly in the end the 1660 really isn't an upgrade option for 1060 owners anyway it was never intended to be so yeah not a big deal there it's probably more of an upgrade option for those of you with something like a GTX 960 speaking of which I will compare the GTX 960 I'll do a bit of a revisit there and I'll compare that to the 1660 so that should be an interesting comparison that you'll probably find on the channel next week for now though I think that is going to do it for this one hopefully you guys were satisfied by the volume of benchmarks and graphs featured in this video of course if you'd like a whole lot more graphs there are 66 of them over on our patreon page you can go view all of those for free at your own leisure and of course while you're there if you'd like to support the channel more directly you can do so Friz little as $1 a month and that'll get you access to some some pretty cool perks that we do a monthly livestream and then for a few more bucks you can get access to our discord chat all the tears are there you guys can read that and if it interests you well you can you can look into that you can also subscribe for more content just like this and I suppose you can like 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