Introduction

GeForce GTX 1660 Market Segment Analysis Price Shader

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Clock GPU Transistors Memory GTX 1050 $140 640 32 1354 MHz 1455 MHz 1752 MHz GP107 3300M 2 GB, GDDR5, 128-bit GTX 1050 Ti $180 768 32 1290 MHz 1392 MHz 1752 MHz GP107 3300M 4 GB, GDDR5, 128-bit RX 570 $130 2048 32 1168 MHz 1244 MHz 1750 MHz Ellesmere 5700M 4 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RX 580 $170 2304 32 1257 MHz 1340 MHz 2000 MHz Ellesmere 5700M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit GTX 1060 3 GB $185 1152 48 1506 MHz 1708 MHz 2002 MHz GP106 4400M 3 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit GTX 1060 $210 1280 48 1506 MHz 1708 MHz 2002 MHz GP106 4400M 6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit RX 590 $240 2304 32 1469 MHz 1545 MHz 2000 MHz Polaris 30 5700M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit GTX 1660 $220 1408 48 1530 MHz 1785 MHz 2000 MHz TU116 6600M 6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit EVGA GTX 1660

XC Ultra $250 1408 48 1530 MHz 1845 MHz 2000 MHz TU116 6600M 6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit GTX 1070 $310 1920 64 1506 MHz 1683 MHz 2002 MHz GP104 7200M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RX Vega 56 $320 3584 64 1156 MHz 1471 MHz 800 MHz Vega 10 12500M 8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit GTX 1660 Ti $280 1536 48 1500 MHz 1770 MHz 1500 MHz TU116 6600M 6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit GTX 1070 Ti $450 2432 64 1607 MHz 1683 MHz 2000 MHz GP104 7200M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RTX 2060 FE $350 1920 48 1365 MHz 1680 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit

NVIDIA launched its GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card, doubling down on its idea of Turing-based GeForce GTX graphics cards that lack ray-tracing capabilities, but feature performance uplifts at normal raster graphics. At $280, the GTX 1660 Ti from last month ended up leagues ahead of the similarly priced and recently launched Radeon RX 590 and could play any game at 1080p with details maxed out, and 1440p with a little tweaking. At its price point, though, the GTX 1660 Ti wasn't really a successor to the current mainstream market leader in terms of sheer sales, the GTX 1060 6 GB. That distinction now goes to the GTX 1660.At $220, the GTX 1660 is built to a cost, and NVIDIA has made sure it has ample headroom to cut costs further in the future if AMD comes out with competitive products in this segment, such as the fabled "Navi." It is carved out of the same 12 nm "TU116" silicon as the GTX 1660 Ti with fewer CUDA cores and slower 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory replacing 12 Gbps GDDR6. NVIDIA is hence looking to offer a product that's incrementally faster than the GTX 1060 6 GB and anything AMD has to offer in this segment, which can still deliver on Full HD gameplay with maximum quality.As we detailed the "TU116" in our GTX 1660 Ti reviews, this silicon is derived from the "Turing" architecture by removing RT cores and tensor cores, leaving just the CUDA cores, which have the same IPC and clock-speed uplifts as any other RTX 20-series card. The target audience for the GTX 1660 is that colossal mass of gamers into online multiplayer e-Sports titles and just in need a card that can keep them ticking at Full HD, perhaps even at high refresh rates.NVIDIA carved the GTX 1660 out of the "TU116" silicon by disabling 2 out of 24 streaming multiprocessors, resulting in a CUDA core count of 1,408 and 88 TMUs, which is still higher than what the "Pascal" based GTX 1060 6 GB packs. With 48 ROPs and a 192-bit GDDR5 memory bus driving 6 GB of memory, the rendering and memory subsystem is practically carried over.Today, we have with us the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC Ultra, the company's premium GTX 1660 offering, loaded to the boot with a premium twin-fan 2-slot cooling solution with idle fan-off and factory-overclocked speeds.