Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Graphics Card Review

Peter Donnell / 6 years ago

Final Thoughts

How Much Does it Cost?

The launch price of the cards today may vary a little from store to store. £259/$279/259.99EUR is the expect ballpark though. Obviously, various card configurations are likely going to be £10-£20 either side of this MSRP. That’s a darn good price too, given it’s still £299 for the 2060 equivalent, and this card has been beating up the GTX 1070 all-day and kicking the GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 in the back a few times too.

Overview

When we first heard of the 16xx cards, I actually thought they were fake news. Something Nvidia cooked up to catch out the leakers. However, it quickly became apparent that they were very much real. Not only that, despite the comments section on social media being full of people saying the new GTX cards are stupid, they actually make a lot of sense now.

Out With The Old – In With The New

Ditching the old production runs of the GTX 10-series means Nvidia can focus on a since production like. The new chipsets cover the full range of affordable to their flagship on the same 12nm run. The 16xx are kept for the low-to-mid range market. However, they can at Tensor and RT cores to create their flagship RTX series; albeit at a much higher cost. So GTX for the masses, RTX for the enthusiast.

Performance

Nvidia said this is a card for 1080p, 1440p and high frame rate gaming, and we don’t doubt that one bit. It scored around 80-90 FPS overall in 1080p tests and around 60 FPS in most games at 1440p. Now, keep in mind we test with everything set to High and we test pretty visually demanding games too. If you’re only playing Minecraft, Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch, League of Legends, etc. Well, then you can expect your FPS to be pretty stratospheric, even more so if you dial down to medium settings to keep those FPS pushed to extremes for 144Hz or even 240 Hz monitors.

Build Quality

The card is nothing fancy to look at, but if anything that makes it even more impressive. When we compare the cards like the MSI 1070 Ti is was performing behind. That card has two huge fans, a massive custom cooler, etc. As did the triple fan PNY GTX 1070, or the triple-slot monster Vega 64. This card is a plastic rectangle with a single blower fan on the top… So build quality, it’s perfectly fine, but this level of performance from a card that looks so cheap makes it a bit of a sleeper.

Overclocking

Put simply, you can overclock the nuts off of it. Nvidia told us we may be able to hit 2GHz on the core and we blasted past that. We scored 1900 MHz on the memory too, which is significantly above the default levels. Your mileage may vary of course, but we highly recommend ragging the overclocks on this card to get those glorious performance gains. Free performance gains at that!

Should I Buy One?

Do you have around £270 and want to play the latest games at high frame rates at 1080p, or even 1440p? Then it’s a no brainer right now. The GTX 1070 is around the same price, which is a much bigger GPU, higher power usage, and lower performance. The RX590 is £250, cheaper, but again higher power consumption, heat, and slightly lower performance. For affordable gaming, this plucky little card blows my mind. It’s much more powerful than it looks and a solid replacement for the older cards. Obviously, I wouldn’t replace an existing 10-series card with this in my PC. However, if you’re still on old cards like the 660 Ti, or RX 460, it’s a great upgrade.