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welcome back to harbor unboxed okay I'm gonna make this fun a little more brief than I would like to because I'm about to leave for a week long holiday and of course the one week of the year that I decided to take off in video releases a GPU that said I knew that one of the big three AMD Intel Nvidia would release something and it turns out it was the Green Team the other videos you might have seen this week featuring yours truly they were created in advance so I did them before I had to go my holiday so anyway I'm meant to be kayak fishing with my mates right now so I don't have time for mega benchmark video at least not until later next week thankfully I was able to get all my testing done before I had to leave and I filmed the a role so my sort of intron outro for this video I did that in my studio and I got a bit of b-roll and then I just had to do the voice-over stuff or I will have to do the voice-over stuff and a little bit of video editing at the house that I'm staying at on the beach so anyway that might be too much of an issue and we should probably just get down to business before we get to that this video is brought to you by as rock and there's m390 Tai Chi ultimate motherboard this flagship quality board fully supports Intel's ninth gen 8 core processors thanks to a 10 phase vrm design and you get a quantity at 10 gigabit per second Ethernet to learn more check out the links in the description below today's business of course is in videos new churring based gtx 1660 it's just the plain 1660 so we looked at the Ti model not that long ago and now we have the 1660 so the ti version was 280 dollars u.s. and at that price it proved to be an exceptionally good buy and now we have this one for 220 and I think it too will prove to be an exceptionally good buy basically it's 21 percent cheaper but packs just 8 percent fewer crew cores and going off that you'd expect it to be just 5 percent slower on average as the base and boost clocks are very similar however there is one major change whereas the 1660 Ti features a 192 bit wide memory bus using 12 gear bits per second G DDR 6 memory for a bandwidth of 288 gigabytes per second this new non TI model has been downgraded to use gddr5 memory so while it still supports the same 192 bit wide memory bus the bandwidth has been reduced by 33 percent down to 192 gigabytes per second so that could produce some interesting results and I don't expect the 1660 and 1660 Ti to scale evenly over all in video says the 1660 is 30% fast on the GTX 10 63 gigabyte and 15% fast in the GTX 1066 gigabyte at 1080p and will certainly investigate that claim in video also informed us that on average at 68% fast and the GTX 970 and a hundred and 13% fast in the GTX 960 so this is primarily who they're targeting with the GTX 1660 as long as you have an 8 pin PCI power connector pretty much good to go though you can get a 4-pin molex adapter anyway on hand for testing we have the MSI GTX 1660 gaming X model which is kind of nice as our 1660 Ti results are based on the gaming X version and the same is true for our RT X 2060 results so shout out to MSI for looking after us on all these releases and truth be told without their support this day one content wouldn't be possible on that note NVIDIA has also been helpful with these churring GTX releases promptly providing the necessary driver so I can get on with testing so thank you to them as well ok so let's talk testing for this one I'll be looking at performance and a dozen titles and then sometime over the next week we'll do one of our 30-plus game benchmarks also for the focus of this video we will be looking at 1080p performance before we get into the results a few quick notes on the test system the test system used includes a kora 999 or K clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 memory as for the drivers were using adrenaline 2019 Edition nineteen point two point three for the Radeon GPUs and then game ready for 1935 whe QL for the GeForce GPUs kick-starting the benchmarks we have shut off the Tomb Raider and here the new GT x16 60 performs exceptionally well it blows the gtx 1066 year bite out of the water by almost a 40% margin and it's just 4% slower than the gtx 1070 and 13% slower than the 1660 TI not only that but we're 76 FPS on average eternity P using the highest in game quality preset it provided an extremely smooth enjoyable gaming experience so we're off to a very good start there next that we have Forza horizon for in the GTX 1660 isn't quite as impressive here as it only matched the rx 590 though having said that it was only slightly sold in the GTX 1070 when compared to the GTX 1066 gigabyte it was also just 16% faster so again not a particularly amazing result here moving on the GTX 1660 average 65 fps in just cause for at 1080p placing it roughly on par with the Radeon rx 590 and this minute was just 18% fast in the GTX 1066 gigabyte which again isn't a particularly amazing result though it is in line with what Nvidia said the card was capable of who's also interesting about that it was just 11% slower than the GTX 1660 Ti so I guess in that sense not a bad result now testing with Resident Evil 2 we find another title where the GTX 1660s on par with the RX 590 though this time that minute was 29% fast in the GTX 1066 eager bite so that is a substantial improvement not only that but 94 FPS on average at 1080p with the game maxed out is certainly nothing to sneeze at moving on we have hitman 2 and this is a very CPU limited game at 1080p when using a gtx 1660 TI or better we see the 1660 isn't quite the limits of the CPU but even so it's still 16% faster than the rx 590 and 29% fast and the GTX 1066 gigabyte hitman 2 is a bit of an odd title but even so the 1660 still performed rather well here we see the new cheering GPU does OK in fortnight not amazing but it certainly does get the job done here it was just 11% fast in the GTX 1066 year by making it 16% slow on the GTX 1070 at 18 percent slower than the GTX 1660 Ti still with 113 fps an average using the epic quality preset at area P it's not exactly what you'd call slow frame rates in Metro Exodus are good here the 1660 was just percent slower than the TI model making it 16 percent fast in the GTX 1060 and then when the difference between a nice smooth gaming experience and one with noticeably lower frame rates we've seen a number of times already that the churring architecture loves Rainbow six siege or is it Rainbow six siege it loves during either way it's good news for potential gtx 1660 owners here the new budget GPU sped out an incredible 118 FPS on average 1080p using the 100% render scale that's a whopping 36 percent performance boost over the gtx 1066 gigabyte now testing with battlefield 5 sees the 1660 trail the TI model by a 16 percent margin and it only managed to match the rx 580 that said the Radeon GPUs do perform very well in this title still when compared to the gtx 1066 q byte we're only looking at a 12 percent performance uplift so not amazing gains by any stretch of the imagination in this title the World of Tanks performance isn't great here the 1660 is down 17% on the 1660 ti which again isn't terrible however it does place it basically on par with the gtx 1060 sukhiya bytes so no real performance bump for gtx 1060 owners even those with the measly 3 gigabyte model second last game tested is apex legends and here we see the 1660 providing a nice 28% performance boost over the gtx 1066 gigabyte with an impressive 106 FPS on average at Tony P this minute was just 6 percent slower than the gtx 1070 and 14% slower than the gtx 1660 TI now for last game far cry a new dawn and once again at the 1660 managed to match the RX 590 this time with 87 FPS on average at 1080p and that is excellent performance though admittedly it was just 14 percent faster than 1066 gigabyte and with the older Pascal GPU spitting out 76 FPS on average the difference wasn't really noticeable now when it comes to power consumption we see like the GTX 1660 Ti this newer non ti model is extremely fuel-efficient basically pushing total system consumption to the same levels as the already very efficient gtx 1066 gigabyte and of course as we just saw it does so while delivering a more performance so in terms of efficiency there's really no question about it the 1660 is excellent the msi gtx 1660 gaming ex model that we were provided for our day one review ran very cool and quiet under load i couldn't hear it above the test system and after an hour of the f1 2018 benchmark on a loop had picked it just 63 degrees in a 21 degree room so impressive stuff yet again from this new budget graphics card then when it came time to overclock with the msi gtx 1660 gaming x things went very smoothly firing up the msi afterburner utility we arrived at plus 110 for the core and plus 900 for the gddr5 memory this resulted in a typical core operating frequency of 2070 megahertz though that is just a mere 5% bump over what you'd get out of the box that said I was able to increase the gddr5 memory speed by 22% and this helped to boost frame rates by 11% in apex legends not bad given how small the core overclocked is clearly the 1660 is memory limited and squeezing the most you can out of the gddr5 memory is a really easy way to boost frame rates when compared head-to-head with the radio rx 590 across the dozen games tested so far the GTX 1660 was on average eight percent faster so not bad given its expected to cost around fifteen percent less the only games where the 1660 struggled included battlefield 5 and Resident Evil 2 while we saw the performance was neck-and-neck in Far Cry New Dawn Forza horizon 4 and Just Cause 4 then for the other seven games tested the GeForce GPU was faster by a 10% margin or greater the performance increase over the GTX 1066 gigabyte varied quite a bit depending on the title used for testing and less demanding titles such as World of Tanks and fortnight the gains weren't that impressive though having said that the same is also true for battlefield 5 so obviously it just depends on the game anyway on average the 1660 was 21% faster and we saw a massive performance gains and shut off the Tomb Raider and Rainbow six siege then finally we have a comparison with the GTX 1660 Ti and here the 1660 was just 13% slower on average and again that's a great result given that we expected to cost around 21% less fact the 1660 was never more than 18% slower so in terms of value it does clearly come out in front and we get a better idea of just how good the 1660 is in terms of value with this cost per frame graph at a cost of two dollars and forty four cents per frame based on our testing it's actually nine percent better value the GTX 1662 I and impressively and even managed to edge at the Radeon rx 580 this leaves just AMD's rx 570 as the cost per frame champ but as you can see the gtx 1660 was 36% faster on average so paying a small premium for that extra performance is likely going to be worth it for a good many of you overall in videos new 220 dollar u.s. mid-ranged shirring offering is all-around excellent i've really got nothing bad to say about it not even anything remotely negative I've even got used to the 16 series naming at this point yeah that still sucks even at 3m but seriously this is a really good value offering from Nvidia and it completely wipes out the GTX 1060 series so whether it's the three gear byte or the 60 gigabyte version much better value and it also wipes out the rx 580 and then the 590 so the 1662 I really took care of the 590 bang for your buck you just can't beat it the power efficiency is excellent an Emma sized gaming X model that I had on hand for testing worked like a charm ran cool and quiet with a reasonable amount of overclocking Headroom there's not too much more to say really and honestly this early in the morning I'm pretty keen to wrap this one up get to bed and then start the 14-hour Drive in the morning to get to my holiday destination so we've got a big THANK YOU to MSR for providing their gtx 1660 gaming excuse card and a big THANK YOU to Nvidia for helping us get the driver so that I could make this review happen anyway that is going to do it for this one more comprehensive benchmark video will be online in about a week's time once I get back from my holiday but if you enjoyed this video feel free to the like button for us I'd much appreciate that subscribe for more content and if you appreciate what we do in our box then consider supporting us on patreon thank you for watching yes I know I look tired yes I'm about to yoghurt sleep because I'm your host Steve and I'll see you again next time