![]() The reference clocked model ends up being 3-4 percent slower. It's also more expensive, so nothing too revolutionary there. Asus's model is slightly faster, thanks to its superior cooling and slightly higher boost clock. Not surprisingly, the two factory overclocked GTX 1660 Ti cards perform nearly the same. (I'm including the full set of 1080p/1440p ultra benchmarks, with summary charts for 1080p medium and 4k ultra.) I'm also going to limit results to "nearby" cards for this review, so RTX 2070/GTX 1080/RX Vega 64 at the top, down through the GTX 1060 and RX 570/580 cards at the bottom, with the GTX 970 and R9 390 showing how older hardware stacks up.Īnd with that out of the way, here are the results. I've tested the EVGA GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia's newer 419.35 drivers, and retested a couple of games where performance looked a bit different compared to the pre-launch 418.91 drivers, but otherwise nothing has changed. I've also included a "reference" GTX 1660 Ti, running at 1770MHz boost clock, which is what you'll often find on the $280 base models. Since we're looking at the same GPU with only slightly different clockspeeds, the performance will be largely the same. Good on EVGA for doing so.I'm limiting the performance results to 12 newer games for this review-a slight change relative to the initial GeForce GTX 1660 Ti review. At the time of writing, Nvidia is not offering any free games to sweeten the bundle but EVGA has taken it upon itself to bundle GRIP: Combat Racing - a well-reviewed game released late last year. Outputs are more conventional, mind, with DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA making up a sensible trio.ĮVGA backs the card with a standard three-year warranty. The sum of these cooling efforts, plus the 1,860MHz boost speed - the 6GB of GDDR6 memory is left untouched, operating at 12Gbps - pushes the card's pricing up from a bone-stock £260 to around £300, putting it perilously close to the next GPU up, the GeForce RTX 2060. We'd characterise the cooling and contact as above average. A central copper block makes excellent contact with the core, is attached to three flattened heatpipes running three-quarters the length of the heatsink, and EVGA uses an intermediate metal plate to cool the memory chips, as well as having thick thermal tape for the VRMs. Stripping the cooler back reveals a few truths. It is also the reason why the heatsink is punctuated by the 8-pin power connector that, on first glance, looks oddly out of place. ![]() This is why we see a plastic securing plate - it has no other job - on the left next a board that actually measures 188mm long. What's clear from taking a look at the back is that the cooler is too large for the PCB. Unlike pricier models, the corner accents cannot be changed to add a touch of customisation. This ought to be called the Minimalist Edition because there is neither RGB lighting nor any real colour. Twin HDB fans, which switch off at low loads, sit directly atop of a heatsink that spans the entire width of the card. We also know this cooler is capable because it's used on the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 GPUs. We already know the performance uplift of the best GTX 1660 Ti versus the most basic is around three per cent in our benchmarks. This extra cooling capacity and power translates to an out-of-the-box core speed of 1,860MHz, compared to either 1,770MHz or 1,845MHz for the smaller XC Black and XC Gaming, respectively. The ability to run a better heatink also allows the XC Ultra Gaming to increase the available power from 130W (Mini-ITX) to 160W - representing a full 33 per cent over stock. Enabling a standard-width card - 10.5in, as is the case here - drops it to a strict two-slot design. Going Mini-ITX in width pushes each card's thickness to 2.75 slots. The higher-performance model, known as XC Ultra Gaming, adopts a wider card that is also clocked higher on the core.ĮVGA offers you a choice. The cheaper duo uses a Mini-ITX form factor that we believe is ideally suited to the 120W GPU. Still, if you do want GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which one do you get? EVGA has a trio of cards. They want to release feature-rich models that excel at cooling and acoustics, though doing so guarantees the price-to-performance metric goes out of whack. This knowledge admittedly puts add-in board partners in an uncomfortable spot. UK pricing starts at £260 and runs up to well over £300, which is irritating because such sums are the preserve of the better-featured RTX 2060. Financial considerations aside, the first non-RTX Turing card delivers delicious performance at FHD and, more often than not, keeps to a 60fps average at the more taxing QHD. It is our opinion that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has found it difficult to cement a place in the hearts of gamers because of ill-judged pricing from Nvidia. ![]()
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