The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Stakes Its Claim at $219
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on March 14, 2019 9:01 AM ESTThe Test
Without any Founders Edition, NVIDIA is pushing out the GTX 1660 as a fully custom launch, and while the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC Black has reference clocks, the TDP is set at 130W rather than the reference 120W. To keep testing and analysis as apples-to-apples as possible, as usual we've emulated reference GTX 1660 specifications. While not perfect, this should be reasonably accurate for a virtual reference card as we look at reference-to-reference comparisons.
| Test Setup | |||||
| CPU | Intel Core i7-7820X @ 4.3GHz | ||||
| Motherboard | Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 7 (F9g) | ||||
| PSU | Corsair AX860i | ||||
| Storage | OCZ Toshiba RD400 (1TB) | ||||
| Memory | G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 4 x 8GB (16-18-18-38) |
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| Case | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition | ||||
| Monitor | LG 27UD68P-B | ||||
| Video Cards | EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC Black NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon RX 590 AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edtion NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (2GB) |
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| Video Drivers | NVIDIA Release 419.15 (Press) AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.1 |
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| OS | Windows 10 x64 Pro (1803) Spectre and Meltdown Patched |
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As an additional thanks to EVGA, we were also able to get a GeForce GTX 1060 3GB card, which is the closest last-gen predecessor given that the GTX 1660 is directly replacing the GTX 1060 3GB.
In the same vein, for Ashes, GTA V, F1 2018, and Shadow of War, we've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous GPU 2018 data of last year.
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Qasar - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
it also depends on if the consoles even have any games some one would want to play... for me.. those games are not on consoles.. they are on a comp... not worth it for me to by a console as it would just sit under my tv unused..D. Lister - Saturday, March 16, 2019 - link
@eva02langley: "...console hardware is more efficient since it is dedicated for gaming only."smh... console hardware used to be more efficient for gaming when console hardware was composed of custom parts. Now, consoles use essentially the same parts as PCs, so that argument doesn't work anymore.
Fact of the matter is, consoles remain competitive in framerate by either cutting down on internal resolution, or graphic quality features, like AA, AF, AO, or in many cases, both res and features. Take a look at the face-offs conducted by the Digital Foundry over at Eurogamers.net.
D. Lister - Saturday, March 16, 2019 - link
@eva02langley: I also find it rather ironic that you, who has often criticized NVidia for not being open-sourced enough with their technologies, are making a case here for consoles that are completely proprietary and closed-off systems.maroon1 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Faster, consume much less power, smaller and produce less noise than RX590 which cost sameEven if you ignore the performance advantage, the GTX 1660 is still better out of the two. No reason to buy big power hungry GPU when it has no performance advantage
0ldman79 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
What is it with Wolfenstein that kills the 900 series?I mean they're still competitive in almost everything else, but Wolfenstein just buries the 900 series horribly. If it's that bad I'm glad I'm not addicted to that series. I had thought about picking up a copy, but damn...
Opencg - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
they may be using some async techniques. the famous example is doom where many 900 series saw worse performance on vulkan due to async being a cpu based driver side implementation.Dribble - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
I think it's because it has FP16 code in the shaders - which Turing and newer AMD have hardware support for, but Pascal doesn't. It was AMD's trump card until Turing so you'll find a few AMD sponsored games use FP16.Ryan Smith - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
"What is it with Wolfenstein that kills the 900 series?"Memory capacity. It really wants more than 4GB when all of its IQ settings are cranked up, which leaves everything below the GTX 980 Ti a bit short on space.
AustinPowersISU - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Used GTX 1070 still makes the most sense. You can easily get one for less than this card and have much better performance.Nvidia needs to do better.
eva02langley - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
It is still their best offering in term of price/performance from Turing. However, yeah, that should have been done way before.