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on Tuesday I received these graphics cards shiny new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660s and although they're launched today Thursday was somewhat expected since the 1660 TI RT debuted last month starting price of two hundred and twenty dollars for entry-level Adhan board versions of the 1660 should make it very appealing to a lot of gamers out there it still has six gigs of VRAM although it is slower gddr5 and it will only be available in third-party ad in board variants like these the gtx 1660 gaming x from msi the gtx 1660 XC from EVGA and the gtx 1660 windforce OC from gigabyte the corsair one is a gaming pc for people who want maximum performance with a minimal footprint don't let the size fool you though there's a core I 999 hundred K CPU and an RT X xx atti in the corsair 1i 160 kept chilly with convection assisted cooling and separate closed loops for the CPU and GPU there's also a corsair 1i 140 with an i7 9700 K and an RT X 2080 so click the sponsor link in the video description to learn more so what's the difference between a gtx 1660 and a gtx 1660 TI they are both based on the 12 nanometer touring t1 1:6 GPU which does not include our TX capabilities so no RT cores no hardware support for ray tracing or D LSS like you get with our TX cards which honestly isn't a huge loss in my opinion so the main difference is fewer streaming multi processor units and CUDA cores 22 SMS on the 16 60 versus 24 on the ti 1408 CUDA cores down from 1536 on the ti and then you have slower 8000 megahertz effective gddr5 vram on the 16 60 versus faster 12000 megahertz effective GDD r 6 on the TI and either case the GPU has 6 32-bit memory controllers for a 192 bit bus and the default base and loose clock are also a bit faster on the 16 60 at 1530 and 1785 megahertz respectively as compared to the TI which starts at a base clock of 1500 and a boost of 1770 so all these cards I have here are manufacturer overclocked versions with boost clocks bumped up to 1830 supplemental board power is provided by an 8 pin PCI Express graphics power connector and my gigabyte and MSI cards have 3 DisplayPort 1 point four outs and one hdmi 2.0 B and then the EVGA goes with Nvidia's reference specs for video outs which is one HDMI one DisplayPort and one DVI these cards do not have USB type-c for virtual link support but board partners do have the option to add that if they want so speaking of these three cards they all have their unique qualities starting with the EVGA 1660 XC which is actually a three slot card this allows it to stay pretty short and only about seven and a half inches long but there is a big fat thin stack underneath that cooler thanks to the third slot we also have a single cooling fan and unfortunately no back plates I think this card will be great for some mini ITX builds where card lengths can be an issue but definitely not actually for some mini ITX builds where the third slot might conflict with the power supply which is the case in a lot of smaller cases out there so just bear in mind when you're picking your case if you go with this card that it is a slightly different form factor although I applaud EVGA for going for something that's a little bit more different and unique this one's going to go for $230 which is $10 more than the base price for the 1660 but EVGA said there will also be a $10 million rebate available at launch the MSI Ventus excess is next and this will also be a $230 gtx 1660 msi has done with a 2 slot design for this one and they have also added a backplate which is plastic but actually think it looks quite nice not bad at least four plastic backplate it's got sort of a faux brushed metal finish and it kind of wraps around to meet up with the shroud that is on the heatsink which also sports a single copper heat pipe and a toothed fan cooler this card measures at 8 inches long so still pretty short and pretty compact and again just an 8 pin PCI Express power connector finally we have the gigabyte gtx 1660 windforce OC and this one will sell for the MSRP of 220 dollars and it's a 2 slot design much like the msi it does come in a bit longer at about 8 and 7/8 inches long but that's still about an inch shorter than the width of most standard ATX motherboards so I think in most systems that length isn't going to be a conflict issue it does also have a wraparound backplate on the back with a gigabyte logo and a bit of 3d texture that also kind of matches up with the shroud on the front so I thought that was a pretty nice design and again we have an aluminum thin stack with a single copper heat pipe providing some extra heat dissipation from the GPU now lastly I wanted to point out card height or the amount of height that's above the pci-express bracket and for that one the EVGA actually comes in as the shortest the gigabyte would be a bit in the middle it is a bit taller than the bracket but then the msi one is definitely the tallest of the three so my first order of business for testing is to see which of these three cards I like the best to do further testing to compare against the other benchmarks that I have to do this I set up two tests the 3d mark times by burnin tests that loops for about 20 minutes to get a measure of temperature as well as clock speeds and then the fire strike ultra run so I can get some scores that I can compare against each other these are all using the same GPU so the differentiating factors should be those operating temperatures and sustained clock speeds also bear in mind when it comes to base and boost clock speeds all three of these at least according to gpu-z were running at the same frequency 15 30 base clock 18 30 boost clock the EVGA GTX 16 60 XC had an average temperature of 70 degrees Celsius a max temperature of 74 degrees Celsius average clock speed of about 1854 and a max clock speed of 1965 system power during the time spy burning test was 184 watts on average and then when I ran 3dmark fire strike ultra at the graphics core was 2742 MSI GTX 1660 Ventus excess had an average temperature of 70 and a max temp of 74 pretty much the same temps as the EVGA card average clock speed was 1858 just a few ticks faster and the max clock speed was 1965 exactly the same system power draw was actually a little bit less than hundred and seventy eight watts and the 3dmark fire strike ultra graphics core was 27:41 finally the gigabyte gtx 1660 wind force OC had an average temperature of 68 degrees which was the coolest of the three max temp of 74 which was identical to the other two average clock speed of 1856 which was right in between max clock speed in 1995 which gives it the wind for max clock speed system power job 181 watts and then a 3dmark fire strike ultra graphics core of 2763 all of these are within a margin of error of each other and I'm not gonna say that one of these cards is necessarily better than the others because the scores were so close but given the three results that I have I'm gonna go with the gigabyte card for further testing so for those benchmarks I just talked about and the upcoming ones all of them were run on the test system which is back there in the corner which features an Intel Core I 999 hundred K at 4.8 gigahertz and a Zaraki through 90 Taichi ultimate motherboard a cooler master ml 360 our RGB all-in-one liquid cooler 16 gigs of g.skill Trident Z RGB ddr4 memory running at 3200 speed with casa latency 14 a samsung 970 pro 512 gig nvme SSD and EVGA supernova g3 650 watt 80 plus gold rated power supply and Windows 10 64 bit all the tests were run in the Leanne Lee PCO 11 dynamic white tempered glass case with the side panels on and I was running Nvidia driver for 19.3 5 for comparison GPUs I have the GTX 1066 gigabyte and that's the gigabyte g1 gaming version which is manufacturer overclocked running in about 1950 megahertz the AMD Radeon rx 598 gig and the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2060 that said here are the benchmarks first test here is 3d mark firestrike ultra and the 1660s core 229 62 with a graphic score of 27 63 and here you might look at that rx 590 score and say hey Paul RX 590 is looking pretty good there but also compare the 16 60 TI here and bear in mind that this was the one test that was somewhat anomalous when it comes to my 16 60 TI tests and it's not going to be represented as we move along so next we have 3d mark x by extreme which is a DirectX 12 test and here where you can see where Nvidia has made some real biggie gains when it comes to asynchronous compute performance 1660 scores 27:10 with the graphics score of 25 o2 which beats out the RX 590 by about 380 points and sort of sits right between that rx 590 score and the gtx 660ti here's 3d mark VR mark Blue Room which is a VR tests we have an average score as well as a frames per second score the 1660 scored 17 27 which handily beats out the RX 590 which comes in at 13 55 and here also I'd like to point out that gtx 1066 gig if you got one of those a couple years ago and you're considering an upgrade there's a pretty nice increase in performance here when you compare that to the 1660 next its ashes of the singularity escalation also DirectX 12 tests were running at 2560 by 1440 here and the GTX 1660 has 37.7 average frames per second again beating at the RX 590 was 33.5 which had just barely beat out the 1066 year with 33.4 if we move over to 1920 by 1080 the 1660s scores 42.7 average frames per second again beating out the RX 590 with 38.7 here shadow of the Tomb Raider our last two DirectX 12 test and the GTX 1660 got 46 average frames per second running at 2560 by 1440 rx 590 had a better performance here but still wasn't able to beat it as it came in just one FPS short at 45 60 and 60 TI had a nice lead here with 55 FPS of course if you want the most performance out of any of these cards you're gonna have to go with the Archie X 2060 but that costs three hundred and fifty dollars if you look at 1920 by 1080 the 1660 jumps up to 71 FPS on average and gains a little bit more of a lead over the rx 590 which had at 66 frames per second here's GTA 5 which remains one of the top 10 games played on Steam which is why I continue to run benchmarks of it at 2560 by 1440 we have 75 average frames per second for the GTX 1660 which is a very nice performance if you're playing on a 1440 monitor and you're looking for about a 60 Hertz refresh rate I think that would be a pretty good experience for you of course if you move over to 1920 by 1080 you can get more frames hundred and thirteen average frames per second for the 1660 beating out the RX 590 with 95 and coming in just between the RX 590 and the 1660 ti here's overwatch and at 2560 by 1440 we have 95 average frames per second for the GTX 1660 again just edging out that rx 590 which came in at 92 fps and here again just a slight edge over the 1066 gig so it's gonna depend on which game you're playing when it comes to performance improvements over the last generation of cards some will have more of a game than others if we move over to 1920 by 1080 we have 143 average frames per second for the GTX 1660 136 average FPS for the RX 590 our final test is Metro Exodus and this is also DirectX 12 so I guess I lied to you guys earlier but point being that at 2560 by 1440 we have 31.9 average frames per second for the 1660 and bear in mind this is a very intense test not necessarily representative of the performance you would get in game it's gonna be lower FPS in the benchmark run than the game itself so just bear that in mind but here is an example of a game where the RX 590 is shining a bit more and actually beats out the 1660 34.5 average frames per second and here was where the rx 5 he also gave the 1660 Ti the greatest run for its money if we move over to 1920 by 1080 we see similar performance 41.5 average frames per second for the 1660 the RX 590 beats it out was forty four point six average FPS but the 1660 Ti beats them both with forty five point three so to sum up the gtx 1660 provides a lot of gaming performance at 1080 or 1440 and it beats out the RX 590 in most of my tests not all of them but most of them just as the 1660 TI did so for two hundred and twenty dollars i think this will definitely be the new go to graphics card for budget builds and we'll have to see if AMD is going to respond with price drops for the RX 575 80 or 590 if you're wondering why i didn't include the 570 or 580 in my benchmark results one I literally only had today to make this video and two if it's beating the 590 it's gonna beat the 570 and 580 as well I only tested three variants of the 1660 today though so I'm sure there's gonna be a lot more out there with varying features and price ranges some of them with RGB and stuff too but who cares about that we want performance not aesthetics but the end result is a very viable new GPU option for people who are looking to spend a little over $200 with notable gains versus the previous generation if I have any complaints about the gtx 1660 other than the name which i'm still complaining about 1860 TI and everything it would be that I think Nvidia could have launched these GPUs last year sometime since right now we're looking at touring and touring without our TX which is what these cards have is basically volta which should have launched like last year but anyway I'll post links to these cards in the video description below let me know in the comments if you're gonna pick up a 1660 if you are which one you might be interested in and of course like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching everyone we'll see you guys next time