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did you know that it has been more than two-and-a-half years since Nvidia first launched the original GTX 1066 gig July 19 2016 about two years and seven months ago it launched with a $250 price tag for the entry-level ad and board versions the founders Edition like this one was 300 bucks but nobody bought that so who cares we finally have a successor though in the mid-range with today's launch of the GTX 1660 TI costing two hundred and eighty dollars at launch it has six gigs of DDR 6v RAM and will only be available in third party adding board variants like this gtx 1660 TI gaming ex from msi cooler masters sk series mechanical keyboards help you keep a low profile with ultra flat double Schottky caps and a slim minimalist design available in full size trim as the sk 650 or the even more portable 10 keyless sk 630 these keyboards feel great thanks to genuine Cherry MX low profile mechanical switches they've also got a durable brushed aluminum top plate and a detachable and braided USB type-c cable so click the sponsor link in the description for more on the Coolermaster sk 630 and sk 650 so my question for quite a while ever since finding out the name of this GPU has been why why would Nvidia call it the 16 60 TI which i think is a confusing name it doesn't really tie in well with their old 10 Series or the new 20 series but it's based on the 12 nanometer Turing tu1 1:6 GPU which is a new diet that's different from the RT X 20 60 and up so it does not include Archie X capabilities so no RT cores in this no hardware support for ray tracing or DL SS but that GPU name tu1 1:6 is theoretically why it's called the gtx 1660 although one one six would be eleven sixty go home in video you're drunk but whatever color your GPUs whatever you want them to just don't blame us for getting confused about them more to the point functionally maybe it's a good thing that those are TX features like you have in the 2060 enough are not available on the 16 60 TI because those cards are more expensive and this one is at least less expensive at two hundred and eighty dollars also those RT X features have had pretty limited use since they were introduced about six months ago when the 2080 TI and 2080 launched so a less expensive Turing GPU with a confusing name but no RT X could maybe still be a good product depending on how it stacks up against the competition stats wise we have one 536 CUDA cores with 24 SM units 6 gigs of DDR 6 memory on a 192 bit bus with a 12 gigabit per second data rates a base clock of 1500 megahertz and a boost clock of 1770 but since there will be a lot of ad and board manufacturer overclocked versions out there like this one those numbers will vary from card to card when it comes to frequency supplemental board power at least on this MSI card and also as recommended by Nvidia is handled by a single 8 pin PCI Express graphics power connector and on this card we have 3 DisplayPort 1.4 's and an HDMI 2.0 B 4 video that's the reference effects from Nvidia call for one HDMI one DisplayPort and one DVI but it will be up to Edinburgh partners to change that if they do want but note that there is no inclusion of a USB type-c 4 virtual link support so if you want virtual link support for VR you will need to spend 70 bucks more on at least in RTX 2060 if you want native support speaking of spending 70 dollars more for an RT X 2070 should you just do that I have benchmarks to help you guys decide with that and these were all run fresh within the past 48 hours on this test system featuring an Intel Core i $9.99 hundred K at 4.8 gigahertz and asrock the Z 390 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 at 3200 Kesley and c 14 a samsung 960 pro 512 gig nvme SSD an EVGA supernova g3 650 watt 80 plus gold rated power supply and Windows 10 64 bit that's all housed in the LAN Lee PCO 11 dynamic white tempered glass case and I chose three comparison GPUs because they are the ideal GPUs to compare this new GPU to first we have the gtx 1066 gig because we need to see how much faster the 16 60 Ti is this one is represented by this gigabyte g1 gaming aversion it is manufacturer overclocked running at about 1950 megahertz under load on the GPU core next is the rx 598 gig from AMD's Radeon team because it costs about 260 dollars right now and is the closest competitor to the 1660 Ti and in my humble opinion maybe even the reason the 1660 Ti exists as we might see in a second finally of course we have the RT X 2060 which can easily be found in third-party add-on board variants for 350 dollars only $70 more than a 16 60 TI and in my opinion potentially its biggest competitor given how much more performance you can get for about $70 more which is about the cost of a triple-a gaming table right now that said here are the benchmarks starting off with 3d mark firestrike ultra this is a synthetic benchmark but it's running at 4k and this is Direct X 11 now here right out of the gate the RX 590 is going hard with a score of 3703 and a graphics core of 3664 beating both the 1066 gig and the 1660 ti however spoiler alert this is the RX 5 90s only wins so enjoy it while it lasts next is 3d mark time spy extreme the extreme mode so it's also running at 4k and this is a DirectX 12 test here the 16 60 TI scores 3076 with the graphic score of 2807 T 4 this represents significant games over the GTX 1066 gig as well as the rx 590 although still remains wall short of the RT X 2060s GPU score of 3423 next is VR mark blue room which is a bit more of an intense VR focused test and here the Archie X 2060 comes out on top once again with the score of 2,352 but the 1660 Ti also has a very nice showing with the score of 1981 which is at least 600 points more than the rx 590 moving into some actual game testing and I'll be testing at 1920 by 1080 as well as 2560 by 1440 so here at 1414 ashes of the singularity escalation which is a DirectX 12 test we have the Archie X 2060 coming in with 48 frames per second over the 1660 TI's 41.6 frames per second which is about 13 or 14 percent faster a decent jump not huge but both of them are well outperforming 210 60 and 590 which are coming in at 33 FPS at 1080 the results are largely the same although the 1060 picks up a little bit of a lead over the RX 590 and these 2060 has only about a 10 percent lead over the 16 60 TI next to shadow of the Tomb Raider using the high preset this is also a DirectX 12 test and here the 2060 is about 11% a little more than 11% faster than the 16 60 TI so that is what you get for your extra 70 bucks 16 60 T I got 55 frames per second once again outpacing the 590 and the 10 60 at 1080 the RT X 2060 still maintains Lee over the 1660 ti but only about 11% now meanwhile the 1066 gig has 57 FPS which is a bit behind the RX 5 90s 66 fps and maybe an early indicator of why Nvidia felt like they needed to launch a new graphics card to compete with the RX 590 next we have GTA 5 this is DirectX 11 and running at 2560 by 1440 the 2060 has a little bit less than a 10% lead over the 16 60 TI with 102 frames per second compared to 92 frames per second here the RX 590 actually suffers a bit compared to the 1066 gig and I believe this is one of the only games where the 1066 gig beats the RX 590 and 1920 by 1080 we have a similar set of numbers although bear in mind if you're looking for a high frame rate solution if your gaming at 1080 and you have a higher refresh rate monitor now you have several options amongst this group but the 2060 is still of course coming in first with 145 fps and that's about 9 percent faster than the 16 60 TI next up is battlefield 5 DX our functions have been turned off for this testing since the r-tx 20 60 is the only card that is compatible with them it scored 78 FPS compared to the GTX 1660 Ti is 68 which is about 10.5 percent faster and then moving over to 1080 the RT X 2060 was able to break a hundred FPS on average 102 is what it scored compared to the 1660 T is 90 fps that's about 9.5 percent faster and here the RX 590 really takes a lead over the 1060 with 83 fps compared to 67 next up is overwatch running at 2560 by 1440 the RT X 2060 has 131 FPS compared to the GTX 1660 T is 113 fps we have very good 1% low numbers all around here but overwatch usually does a good job with that the 2060 though has about a 13 or 14% lead over the 16 60 TI though and here the 10 60 and 590 are almost neck and neck when it comes to their numbers that also repeats looking at 1920 by 1080 numbers with 135 at harder than 36 fps respectively for the 1060 and 590 meanwhile the 16 60 TI shoots up 271 fps so a very good option for high refresh rate gaming if you want to play overwatch meanwhile the RT X 2060 got 197 FPS and that is about 13.2% faster than the 1660 TA and finally we have the newly released Metro Exodus and I am using the built-in benchmark for this game which is more intense than the actual game itself so you will get better frame rates if you actually play the game than if you're comparing the numbers you get in the built in benchmark this is direct x12 though I have advanced physics and Harry works turned off at 1440 the 1660 ti has thirty four point seven average frames per second compared to the RT x 26 TS 41.3 so the 2060 is about 16% faster meanwhile at 1920 by 1080 we have 40 5.3 FPS for the 1660 ti 53.1 for the RT x 2060 so that makes it about 15% faster and here again is a game where the RX 590 clearly outpaces the gtx 1066 gig let's quickly take a look at the frequencies that these cards are running at and looking at bass and boosts clocks which are less important what's more important is what they're actually running at while they are under load average testing frequency for my 1660 t i was 1955 megahertz which is pretty good out of the box this is manufacturer overclocked once again but potentially that means we might be seeing higher clock speeds than this maybe up over 2000 did not dive into overclocking with this card for now but pretty good speeds just out of the box meanwhile the 1066 gig over here as already mentioned is running about 1950 megahertz the ITX 2060 is running at 1895 and funnily the RX 590 here is running at 1580 I did take temperature measurements as I was testing but please take these with a grain of salt because they aren't extensive but 67 degrees Celsius was the max temperature I hits on my trend Twin Frozr 7 cooled 1660 Ti over here that was the same max temp that we hit with the 1066 gig from gigabyte meanwhile the RT X 2060 hit 71 degrees Celsius and the RX 590 got up to 82 what I'd recommend if you're looking at the 1660 Ti in the future is you're gonna want to compare different variants of the 1660 Ti and the cooler for it respectively to see which one is better this is more just anecdotal to tell you guys if they're not running too warm although it is winter here and it's pretty chilly one more anecdote to relate is noise levels again I did not test this scientifically but the twin 407 is pretty cool for the most part under load of course the fans spin up and you can hear them but I pretty much did all my testing with the system right beside me and other than the stress test everything was pretty quiet I didn't notice the card at all so guys before I wrap this video up I wanted to test apex legends because it's a new and popular game so that's what I'm doing I'm just doing some screen captures so you guys should be able to see on screen what's happening I have stats for the CPU the 1660 TI memory as well as of course the frame rate and the top left and if you look at my video settings right now I'm at 2560 by 1440 fullscreen and pretty much high settings across the board I'm probably not gonna play too long just gonna jump in a game to get an idea of the frame rate again starting off at 1440 and then will jump to 1080 as well except the game just crashed I'm changing as this texture streaming budget because I know we've only got six gigs of B RAM on this card so let's see if that fixes that error no I don't want to be junk master I'm just along for the ride initial jump in we're getting a 50 52 55 frames per second down on foot getting 72 frames per second I'm just gonna pick up everything no idea what I'm doing I've got a pea shooter set a friend that's not a friend that's a bad guy gonna shoot him I died anyway okay that's good as expected I died quickly but that's fine because it was just a sample of 1440 now I can switch at any patches tried to revive me oh that's right they can bring me back get him patches oh is he really gonna bring me back it brought me back that's awesome oh thank you it's trying to help me it's like obviously a second oh yeah you can climb up walls sometimes oh oh I can get my stuff back my body armor which is super helpful patches is like you have nothing I've got a peashooter patches and fine we've got a brief moon at downtime so I'm switching to a 1920 by 1080 or 1920 by 1080 now guys so there is more frames which is good I'll help me see much more clearly when I die we're 135 fps now run around outside look at me on a zipline 85 FPS on the zipline drops down a bit see shots just right over there gotta get patches look at him oh maybe helpful for my team healing look I healed them that's why I like being a healer I feel like it can actually sometimes be helpful wherever you being shot from oh oh I got I got I got fire coming in from all directions right now I eliminated a person I got a kill I don't know what's happening to me right now sorry I got a kill now and enjoying a game it'll say that I have a kill right there you go kills one more kill well that was fun but I think it is time to wrap this video up let's talk pros and cons for the gtx 1660 TI pro's very solid performance at both 1080 and 1440 and I think it does what it was intended to do which is beat the rx 590 and just about every test something that it can do but the previous 1066 gig could not it often does that by a wide margin as well and it's only a $30 premium if you're comparing the launch price of this to the launch price of the 1060 granite that was two and a half years ago but you know trying to give them a little bit of credit since they didn't jack the price up 500 bucks like they did with the 2080 TI i digress though another excellent thing to point out is the power drop which I haven't even done yet so take a look at this chart and focus here mainly on the average power draw consider the increased performance that we have with the 1660 ti and compare that to the 1066 gig we're using you know maybe 9 watts less so it's in the same ballpark but a bit less power and we have more performance that's good overall and then especially when you compare it to the rx 590 which is sitting more like a hundred watts more power usage so when it comes to pure efficiency the 1660 ti is carrying on invidious tradition of making not just powerful graphics cards but also ones that don't use too much power the reference specs for the card indicated just has 120 watt board power design and they're only recommending a 400 watt power supply for your whole system according to and videos recommended specs the cons for the 1660 TI are that for only $70 more you can get an orangey X 2060 which seems to almost almost make this card pointless but not entirely I'm hoping what this means is that we might see some sales prices for the 1660 ti make it 250 bucks or less make it a bit harder of a decision for people who are like oh I could just save a little bit and get the 2060 of course you're still buying an Nvidia graphics card either way so they'd probably still be happy either way and the point being that they're trying to close the door on the Artic 590 from what I can tell also the name still sucks I still don't like the name and why is there a TI on there does that mean that there's gonna be a non like it regular 16:16 on TI are they gonna do weird things with the memory configurations with that and make like a three gig and a four gig version or something I have no idea I hope not I hope they keep things simpler or at least move towards simple from this sort of confusingly named product here but at least it is a functional product and at least it is not that crazy of a price so if you're on the fence about spending 260 bucks for an RX 590 this card gives you a significant performance bump and it draws significantly less power and only costs 20 bucks more so there you go this has been my review of the new NVIDIA r-tx no GTX 1660 TI 6 gig specifically the MSI gaming X version that you see here I'll put relevant links in this video's description thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button on your way outs and I'll put other links in the description too so you should check that out before you go thanks guys we'll see you next time