NVIDIA introduced the highly anticipated player card based on Turing the 12th generation architecture - GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. According to the company, three times more productive than the new accelerator GeForce GTX 960 (NVIDIA says, that two-thirds of the players still enjoy the weaker or more cards) and 1,5 times the very popular GeForce GTX card 1060 previous generation. Available in retail decision today, and recommended prices for Ukraine 12 000 UAH
However, it is worth noting, in reality (according to tests in our laboratory) to this increase should not count: usually, He is 33-35 %. By the standards of previous generations, when coupled with a fundamentally changed architecture and manufacturing technology, this is a very modest. However, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - an excellent candidate for the title of the new people's video, especially due to the fact, RTX technology that need not far from all, especially in the middle price segment, where there is no extra power supply.
The fact, the GTX 1660 Ti has all the advantages of shader architecture innovation Turing, except for hardware acceleration of ray tracing (notorious nuclei RT). Turing doubles the number of operations per second compared to the previous generation of Pascal, It supports concurrent execution of integer and floating point operations, unified architecture with a triple volume cache L1 and adaptive shading technology for even higher productivity.
According to NVIDIA, Turing architecture performs 1,5 times more instructions per clock cycle and consumes at the same time in 1,4 times less energy, rather than energy-efficient Pascal. As a result,, with a maximum consumption 120 W accelerator GTX 1660 Ti provides breakthrough performance per watt include GPU in its price range.
According to internal tests NVIDIA, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti provides a resolution of 1080p solid 120 frames / sec in such competitive games, как Fortnite, PUBG and Apex Legends at high quality settings, which gives players a great response to input from the controller.
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti based on 12 nm crystal TU116, It includes 1536 stream processors and 6 GB GDDR6 memory with the effective frequency 12 GHz (at 1,5 times more, than GTX 1060). Standard maximum GPU frequency (Boost mode) is 1770 MHz, but NVIDIA emphasizes, that even with a good air-cooled card is easy to reach 1950 MHz (the zametku overclockers).
GTX 1660 Ti is equipped with a video encoding unit NVIDC Turing, the same NVIDIA Encoder, which is present in the RTX family GPU 20. With him and the new OBS Studio utility version can organize game broadcast from your PC with a single accelerator GTX 1660 Ti without compromise and almost no performance degradation.
Their variation graphics cards based on GeForce GTX 1660 Ti for every taste have already presented the company's partners in the face of ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, Gigabyte, EVGA, Innovision 3D, MSI, Mercurial и Zotac.
Together with the NVIDIA released new drivers and GeForce Game Ready 419.17 WHQL to support the new GPU. Besides, This driver is designed to provide the best gaming environment in two recent projects - a cooperative role fighter Anthem and racing DiRT Rally 2.0. At the same time the manufacturer has added SLI profiles for the battle royal Apex Legends and post-apocalyptic shooter Far Cry New Dawn.
Driver fixes a number of problems:
- в Doom Eternal и Doom 2016 markings on the walls displayed in black;
- in Battlefield V observed artifacts, if the texture filtering option was set to "high quality" to the control panel NVIDIA;
- dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) It was not available for 4k2k monitors;
- GPU-acceleration iray The OptiX not work;
- в Windows 7 and 8.1 x64 applications accidentally flew with GeForce Driver 418.81.
Download GeForce Game Ready 419.17 WHQL NVIDIA from the official website or through the utility GeForce Experience. Unfortunately, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does not participate in the campaign "Time to play" - on free games Anthem, Battlefield V can count only buyers GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, 2070 or 2060.
