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One Winged Slayer
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Nov 17, 2017
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No, this is not a typo, it seems.

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First spotted by VideoCardz, a leaked photograph from an official Nvidia presentation that was most likely being given to third party AIB (add-in-board) manufacturing partners (your MSIs, Gigabytes Asuses and the like and therefore not the press or general public) appears to confirm that Nvidia's next and newest Turing GPU will indeed be the GTX 1660.

By switching back to their trusty GTX moniker, this would imply the GTX 1660 will not come with any of the Turing RTX family's titular ray tracing cores, which is the fancy pants reflection-enhancing gubbins Nvidia made such a song and dance about during their initial Turing launch at Gamescom last year where they first unveiled the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti.

Instead, this new GTX 1660 will apparently be based on Nvidia's so-called TU116 GPU. The RTX 2060, by comparison, uses Nvidia's TU106 GPU, so it's currently unclear whether the GTX 1660 will just have those ray tracing cores disabled or whether it's an entirely new die. Prices may well be cheaper if it's the latter, as there's less stuff to bung in the GPU. At the moment, though, the only other specs that appear to be doing the rumour mill rounds are that it will have 1280 CUDA cores and 3GB and 6GB GDDR5 memory variants.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...price-specs-release-date-rumours/#more-637543
 

Rosur

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Oct 28, 2017
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1660 is just an annoying name to me 1160 would of made more sense, if they plan for more non ray tracing cards. Is there any rumors for release date as I just brought a 2060 and if this is better for non ray tracing I'm thinking of swapping...
 

BriGuy

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Oct 27, 2017
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1660 is a bigger number than 1070, 1080, etc. So by Nvidia card naming logic, it should be more powerful.
 

Toadofsky

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I have a GTX 1060 6gb card, other than GDDR5 it doesn't seem like that big of a expansion for myself, at least with what I play on pc. Though I'd love to know more of the specs on it
 

Winstano

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Oct 28, 2017
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My 780 is feeling the strain... I really want to upgrade, but this is confusing as all hell right now. Given that I'm not all that fussy about 4k, the 60 series is the sweet spot right now, but I'd rather not drop ÂŁ350 on an RTX card if I can get a GTX with the same clout (sans RT) for ÂŁ100 or so less...
 

Dracoonian

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Dec 6, 2017
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What a stupid and confusing name. Did they just have some excess parts lying around from the production of RTX line or something.
 

Tbm24

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Oct 25, 2017
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Fully expect this card to perform worse than a RTX 2060. Really don't see Nvidia putting out equal cards just without ray tracing and putting a hard price on the tech.
 

CozMick

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Oct 27, 2017
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I just want 1080ti performance with a 1060s power draw for ÂŁ300, when Nvidia, WHEN???
 

dgrdsv

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Nvidia 1660 TI Will Launch on February 15 at $279

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will launch on February 15, with an MSRP of $279.
The GTX 1660 will launch in early March at $229.
While the GTX 1650 will go on sale for $179 in late March.

All of these will be slower than 2060 and will slot between 1050Ti and 2060.
TU116 will be an interesting chip though as it will allow us to better approximate the amount of silicon used by RT and tensor cores in TU106.
 

TC McQueen

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Oct 27, 2017
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I wonder what the price to performance ratio on this is going to be. If it's pretty good, AMD is going to have a problem getting Navi off the ground.
 

ManixMiner

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Dec 17, 2017
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Nvidia's naming has always bugged just jumping backwards and forwards with what ever they decide. I couldn't imagine being new to computers and trying to navigate the minefield that is the GPU market.
 

Ivellios

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Oct 27, 2017
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The Nvidia 1660 TI Will Launch on February 15 at $279

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will launch on February 15, with an MSRP of $279.
The GTX 1660 will launch in early March at $229.
While the GTX 1650 will go on sale for $179 in late March.

All of these will be slower than 2060 and will slot between 1050Ti and 2060.
TU116 will be an interesting chip though as it will allow us to better approximate the amount of silicon used by RT and tensor cores in TU106.

Are these prices already confirmed or just rumours?
 

Rosur

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Oct 28, 2017
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The Nvidia 1660 TI Will Launch on February 15 at $279

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will launch on February 15, with an MSRP of $279.
The GTX 1660 will launch in early March at $229.
While the GTX 1650 will go on sale for $179 in late March.

All of these will be slower than 2060 and will slot between 1050Ti and 2060.
TU116 will be an interesting chip though as it will allow us to better approximate the amount of silicon used by RT and tensor cores in TU106.

Guess I'll keep my 2060 then. These chips will be interesting though to see how they compare to the 970 or 1060/ 1070.
 

Skade

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Oct 28, 2017
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Do they want consumers to be confused? I don't get it.

Well... What else could have they done ? Call it the GTX 2060 and get people confusing it with the RTX 2060 ?

At least like that we know it doesn't have ray tracing and that it is suposedly more powerfull than the 1060 of old.
 

Ragnorok64

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Nov 6, 2017
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Well... What else could have they done ? Call it the GTX 2060 and get people confusing it with the RTX 2060 ?

At least like that we know it doesn't have ray tracing and that it is suposedly more powerfull than the 1060 of old.
GTX 1160 would have make sense. Jumping from 1060 to 1660 makes no sense.
 

dgrdsv

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Oct 25, 2017
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Are these prices already confirmed or just rumours?
Nothing is confirmed at the moment.

This card is essentially the new edition of the 1060 series but without RayTracing.
It's based on a new Turing GPU with stripped off RT and likely tensor cores. This means that it will follow the same Turing performance profile in games which don't use RT/TC (which is 99.9% of games so far) and will get the same driver improvements as other Turings. It may end up being slightly faster than 1060 but it's not a new edition of 1060.

Is there any pattern or logic to these names?
Well, I too would prefer them sticking to GTX 20xx instead of this weird 16xx but it's likely that they felt the need to better differentiate between Turings with and without RT/TC support.
 

DSP

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Oct 25, 2017
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If it's like 200-250 with 1070 tier performance these could be pretty cool.
 

Duxxy3

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Fully expect this card to perform worse than a RTX 2060. Really don't see Nvidia putting out equal cards just without ray tracing and putting a hard price on the tech.

If I had to guess, it'll basically be a 1070 but built on the new chip. That will obfuscate the cost of RTX a bit.

RTX seems like it will be good, but I'm not willing to pay $100, $200 or even $50 for it right now.
 

ninjabot

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Oct 27, 2017
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I have an RX 480 and don't know shit about PC's. Will getting this 1660 be a good upgrade? Explain to me in console terms what graphical or performance increase I should expect with such an upgrade, please?
 

Duxxy3

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Oct 27, 2017
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I have an RX 480 and don't know shit about PC's. Will getting this 1660 be a good upgrade? Explain to me in console terms what graphical or performance increase I should expect with such an upgrade, please?

This is my own guesstimate, but...



Probably around that level of difference. Nothing confirmed. Just my own guess.
 

Ivellios

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Oct 27, 2017
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I have an RX 480 and don't know shit about PC's. Will getting this 1660 be a good upgrade? Explain to me in console terms what graphical or performance increase I should expect with such an upgrade, please?

It is hard to answer this question without independent benchmarks, since no one knows exactly how strong these cards are going to be

If they are similar to 1070 in performance, it will be significantly better than your rx 480 i believe.

However this also depends on these cards prices as well, if they turn out to be expensive i would not upgrade