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welcome back to harbor unbox today we are checking out and videos the latest attempt to excite gamers and this time it is with the mid-range GPU I'm sure you're familiar with the gtx 1660 TI at this point probably comes as no surprise it's been rumored for quite some time now the recent leaks basically confirmed its existence down to the exact specs and pricing that said while not surprising the release itself does seem a bit odd this is because envy has been pushing their RT x series is the holy grail for gamers in reality though it's a whole lot less miraculous than that and perhaps that's why we are seeing them trim down the chirring GPU and cut off a bit of the fat to create the 1660 TI and after all the RT intensive calls they're basically useless on a mid-range part so anything lower end is going to be completely useless Nvidia tells us they've dropped these architectural features in order to provide a sub $300 u.s. cheering GPU and while that's fair enough and I also doubt many of you will miss the ability to enable ray tracing or DL SS today's video sponsor is PCB way if you're after a custom PCB for your next project look no further they make high quality PCBs at affordable prices right now new members get a $5 bonus which covers their first order of ten one to two layer PCBs and they also offer an assembly service furthermore right now all PCB assembly orders enjoy free shipping worldwide so check them out link is in the video description although NVIDIA has trimmed off the fat we do still get the new sm units featuring dedicated calls for processing FP 32 and integer operations simultaneously as well as FP 16 processing at double the rate of FP 32 well also including the latest advancements in programmable shading the new sm units also feature enhanced caches for increased capacity and bandwidth compared to the RT x 2060 the gtx 1660 TI packs 25% fewer cuda cores but because it also drops the RT and tensor cause the die is 36 percent smaller then when compared to the pascal base gtx 1066 gigabyte the six sixty TI's diet is 42% larger but only packs 20% more criticals of course as I just mentioned the cause had been upgraded and are now much wider this new model also comes with six gigabytes of gddr5 teen hundred megahertz for ddr o'clock of six gigahertz and a data rate of twelve gigabits per second using a 192 bit wide memory bus that results in a peak throughput of 288 gigabytes per second which is a 14 percent reduction in bandwidth compared to the r-tx 2060 but 13 percent higher than the 1070 and 50 percent more than the 1060 given the specs were expecting the 1660 Ti to offer gtx 1070 lat performance at the $280 u.s. price point which would finally be some good news for gamers for testing I'll be looking at performance in a dozen titles and then hopefully sometime soon I'll be checking out 30-plus games also the focus for this video will be on 1080p and 1440p performance before we get into the results a few quick notes on the test system the test system included a kora 999 or okay clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3,200 memory as for the drivers adrenaline 2019 Edition nineteen point two point two for the Radeon GPUs was used and then game ready for 1891 WH QL for the GeForce GPUs ok let's get into the results first up we have shut off the Tomb Raider and crikey the GTX 1660 Ti it looks mighty impressive matching the gtx 1070 tie with 87 FPS on average at 1080p this allowed it to basically match of ager 56 and therefore destroy the RX 590 by an almost 40% margin it remained lethal at 1440p as well again matching the gtx 1070 to I am beating the RX 590 by an impressive 41% margin for so horizon for was actually one of the first games I benchmarked and I was shocked to find the GTX 1662 is so close to the RT X 2060 we've already seen that the Turing GPUs at that much faster than their Pascal counterparts in this title and in the case of the RT X 2070 it's actually a little slower than the 1080 that said the 1660 T I had no trouble keeping up with the gtx 1070 and as a result was just 5% slower than the 2060 we see much the same at 1440p in fact the 1662 I was just a single frame slower than the 2060 I don't expect we'll see many more results like this though keeping frame rates above 60 fps and just cause for certainly isn't easy but even so the GTX 1660 Ti is now by far the best sub $300 u.s. GPU in this title averaging 73 FPS at 1080p making it 14 percent faster than the rx 590 similar margins are also seen at 1440p here the 1660 TI matched the gtx 1070 and this minute was just a few frames slower than AMD's Radeon Vega 56 then we see the GTX 1660 TI slaying in resident evil 2 with an impressive 108 FPS on average and this placed it between the 1070 and 1070 TI so solid result there it maintained this position at 1440p and in a strong title for AMD it was still 11% faster than the Radeon rx 590 so again another very solid result here for in videos new sub $300 GPU hitman 2 is a bit odd at 1080p that said this is mostly because we are looking at a GPU bottleneck scenario at this resolution so moving the 1440p gives us a better idea of how these GPUs compare and here we see the 1662 are roughly matching the gtx 1070 making it just 12% slow in the RT x 2060 I think it's fair to say the 16 60 Ti is going to be a very popular choice amongst fortnight players it's by far the cheapest way to push well past 100 FPS using the higher quality settings it also proved very capable at 1440p pushing well over 70 FPS throughout our test run once again you're looking at gtx 1070 light performance metro Exodus is an exciting new game that we've already covered in depth on the channel but obviously this is the first time we've been able to test it with the gtx 1660 TI performance at turn DP is respectable and again we're seeing gtx 1070 like frame rates the same performance margins were seen at 1440p and here the 1662 i matched the 1070 making it 30% faster than the 6 gigabyte 1060 it seems that Rainbow six siege always provides us with interesting results and today's review is no exception for the most part the gtx 660ti mirrored the gtx 1070 performance but here it shudders it in fact it manages to even edge out the GTX 1080 much the same was seen at 1440p here the 1662 I matched the GTX 1080 making at sixteen percent faster than 1070 and 58 percent faster than the 60 year by ten sixty while it was just two percent slower than Vega 56 here we see our updated battlefield 5 testing saw the GTX 1662 I come in just behind the GTX 1070 at 1080p but with 90 fps on average it was a good step up from the GTX 1060 then at 1440p we see much the same here the 1662 I was again slightly slower than the GTX 1070 though with just two fps in it you could comfortably say that provided the exact same experience not only that but with over 60 fps rendered during our test it provided highly played performance in battlefield 5 or 1440p interestingly the 1662 I was unable to match the GTX 1071 World of Tanks at 1080p here it was 7% slower that's by no means a big margin but still it's rare to see a new cheering GPU coming in behind the 1070 it did however manage to beat Vega 56 and therefore was almost 40% faster than the rx 590 then at 1440p we again see very similar results vega 56 does creep ahead for the average frame rate but is down for the 1% lower result still 35% fast and the Radeon rx 590 the 16 60 TI more than gets the job done as a new ultra popular battle royale title we have of course included apex legends and here the gtx 1660 TI spat out 123 FPS eternity p making it a whisker fast of the mega 56 and a whisker slower than the gtx 1070 TI it was also just 16% salt in the RT x 2060 so pretty good result they're moving the 1440p and here we find much the same the 1660 TI is found position between the 1070 TI and vega 56 making it nine percent faster than the vanilla 1070 and 55 percent faster than the 60 here bite 1060 wrapping up the gaming benchmarks we have the new Far Cry title new dawn the results of basically the same as what we've seen previously when testing with Far Cry 5 not overly surprising given err that's the same world environment dame engine and so on anyway here the 16 sixty-two I match the gtx 1070 making it a little slower than vega 56 then at 1440p as we've seen numerous times already the margins remain very much the same that being the case we again see the 1662 eye matching the performance of the gtx 1070 now when it comes to power consumption the GTX 1662 I push total consumption to just 271 watts making it very efficient basically you're getting gtx 1070 light performance for an 8% power saving for the total system i'm not going to bother comparing that with vega 56 you can see the difference for yourself plus vega 56 has to be modified before it can be placed on a power graph like this you know stand it out of the box stuff under vaulting it till it's running on lemon juice sorry about that sarcasm but in all seriousness this is really what you can expect from baker 56 and 64 out of the box same goes for Radeon 7s for the operating temperatures the msi gtx 1660 TI gaming ex model we use for testing was whisper quiet even after an hour of heavy load the fans only spun up to around 1500 rpm and this allowed a pic GPU temperature of just 66 degrees in a 21 degree room very impressive stuff from a relatively small graphics card incredibly when overclocked the card maintained basically the same operating temperature and fan speed running just a single degree warmer that said the operating frequency was only boosted by 4% on average but we were able to massively increase the memory speed increase in the data rate from 12 gigabits per second to 15 gigabits per second and this was the maximum speed the MSI Afterburner utility will actually allow us to hit so despite just a 4% increase in core clock the 25% boost in memory speed allowed for an 8% increase when testing with fire crying you Don I know not exactly mind blowing stuff but that's a pretty typical overclock for a modern Nvidia graphics card okay so we've got a pretty good idea now of how the new geforce gtx 1660 TI performs out of the box how the MSI gaming ex model overclocks how efficient it is all that stuff but now what I want to know is how exactly does it stack up against previous generation products such as the GTX 1060 the 1070 and the new RCX 2060 and then some GPUs from AMD the Radeon rx 590 Vega 56 and all that so let's go do that now the gtx 1660 Ti is actually a pretty decent upgrade over the gtx 1066 gigabyte at least depending on the title still on average it was 38% faster at 1080p and 40% faster at 1440p and that right there is a big performance boost and certainly justifies spending the $280 u.s. in my opinion especially if you're looking at getting into 1440p gaming upgrades aside you wouldn't even entertain purchasing a gtx 1066 hereby anymore i mean you shouldn't have been any way as the RX 580 was much better value but point is the gtx 1060 is now very much a dead product anything north of $200 u.s. and i wouldn't give it a second look as you no doubt expecting based on what we'd seen previously the gtx 1660 TI is kind of the new gtx 1070 but of course at a lower price point sure the performance does vary a bit in a few titles but for the most part we are looking at a single-digit performance difference we see the same true percent performance difference at 1440p the 1662 I performed well in Rainbow six siege shut off the Tomb Raider and apex legends but as I said overall the performance was much the same it's interesting to note that the sixteen sixty Ti is twenty percent cheaper than the r-tx twenty sixty but at 1080p was just twelve percent slower you could of course argue the twenty sixty is better value because of those RT and tensor cores that enable ray-tracing addy LSS but we discovered such a claim for those of you wondering the sixteen sixty TI was again twelve percent slower at 1440p so let's move on to check out a few comparisons with some AMD radeon gpus okay so compared to the similarly priced rx 590 the gtx 1660 TI was 24% faster so 24% more performance for an eight percent price hike not only that but worst case the 1662 I was still seven percent faster than the rx 590 and best case up to forty six percent faster so it's clearly the better Buy I've been saying it for months now expect rx 590 price drops and while we have already seen $20 shaved off the launch price you can't expect that figure to grow now the 1662 eyes on the scene the margins were much the same at 1440p here the 1662 I was 25% faster so like I said very similar to what we saw at 1080p finally we have Vega 56 which typically sells for $400 and sometimes you'll come across a crazy sale where they drop down much closer to $300 I think there was a bargain sale recently for around 330 dollars u.s. anyway the GTX 1662 I was just seven percent slower on average and even if Vega 56 was to sell for $330 again the 1662 I would still be 15% cheaper making it the better value by not to mention much much more efficient okay so we're getting close to wrapping this up time for our cost per frame analysis give it everything we've seen so far it expect the 1660 to either fare very well here and it does basically looking at a similar price to performance ratio as that of the Radeon rx 580 which is incredibly good news for gamers this is because the 1660 Ti is an entire tier above the rx 580 so for it to deliver a similar cost per frame is absolutely great news with a similar level of performance to Vega 56 the GTX 1660 Ti comes out at a saving of 25% per frame it's also 19% more cost-effective than the GTX 1066 gigabyte the least impressive comparison can be made with the RT X 2060 here it was just 9% more cost-effective which is still an impressive margin and I'll talk more about this in a moment in video released the first churring based GPUs back in September of last year and in my opinion it wasn't until they released the RT X 2060 that we got a well rounded model that was worth buying do you fare the r-tx 2080 ti it's an incredible beast and I really love gaming with it at 4k but it's also stupidly and I mean absolutely stupidly overpriced $1,300 EOS yeah it's not quite that good if you allow me to be blunt the RT X 2080 was a snoozefest the same can be said about the RT X 2070 in fact the 2070 was even worse as it was effectively eliminated by the 2060 just three months after its release then for those of you that hadn't yet nodded off aah in with some elite-level ASMR with their Radeon 7u GPU releases over the past six months have been pretty underwhelming that said the GTX 1662 is the first GPU release in some time that I've come away feeling really pleased with what we've been given as I've already said we're getting gtx 1070 light performance for a slight price premium over the gtx 1066 gigabyte and while I know many of you would have preferred it to be priced at $250 without any competition from AMD at the moment I think this is a pretty good result speaking of AMD this release puts them in a rather tough spot previously the rx 580 was the obvious sub $300 option but now the choice is much more difficult and frankly I'd go with the 1660 Ti it's only $80 more enough as higher tier performance in today's recently released games the RX 5 ATS more of a 1080p solution whereas the 1662 I can be used for higher refresh rate 1080p gaming or 1440p gaming it's also much more efficient and I expect all a IB models to run cool and quiet as for Vega 56 well unless you can find one for $300 US or less it's really not worth buying in my opinion so again AMD's GPU division really is in a tough position and fingers crossed they can pull a rabbit out of their hat with navi later in the year that would certainly benefit all of us in the meantime though the GTX 1660 Ti is the new sub $300 King and I'm not at all concerned about the lack of RT and tensor cause frankly I'd much rather a GTX 20 atti with some extra cruder cause I'd certainly be more compelled to spend $1300 US on that anyway great to see a new GPU worth buying and I was very impressed with MSI's gaming X model the card looks really good nice compact design it runs cool and quiet and it's able to overclock the GTX 60 and 60 Ti to the max the only question left to answer now is how much does it cost exactly hard to say right now and pricing is likely to be a bit all over the place for the next few weeks but with the RT X 2060 2017 and 2018 all selling at the MSRP I expect the same will be true for the GTX 16 60 TI before too long anyway that is going to do it for this one please afraid to let me know what you think of the GTX 1660 Ti down below in the comment section let me know if you think the review was well if it echoed your thoughts do you think it's a good product for the money so you very keen to hear your thoughts as always and for those of you that were hoping for more than 12 games to be benchmarked and this was more of a sort of a product review slash review of the GPU anyway I will have a 30-plus game benchmark hopefully maybe tomorrow I will be benchmarking my backside off as you watch this video so I'm trying to get 30-something games maybe about 35 games include a lot of the newer games like the new Far Cry of course apex legends we've already looked at that though there's a few other new games as well that will be included anyway that is coming hopefully tomorrow maybe a day or two there is a lot of work involved it depends whether I pass out or not anyway if you enjoyed this video feel free to like button subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the work we do at Harrow box then consider supporting us on patreon that really helps us out and helps us to create in-depth benchmark content and all the other things that we do on the channel anyway I'm your host Steve thank you very much for watching and I'll see you again next time