AIDA64 Adds Support for NVIDIA TU116 GPU GeForce GTX 1660

The 1660ti looks like it could be interesting if priced well, not sure about the non-ti versions, they look more like a rehash of the 1060 instead of a new turning chip. be interesting to see reviews however and price/performance ratios

 

the 1660Ti is rumored to be at 280$ and performance around the 1070 while having 6GB instead of 8GB.
the only savior for Turing is that Navi seems to be far off into 2019....

 

1660ti 280$
rx590 260$
1660 230$
rx580 180$

Mid range competition until Navi replaces Polaris.

 

1060... 2060... 1660

Who came up with this naming pattern? Jesus christ

 

Despite having the same core count as the 1060 and having GDDR5 memory, the 1660 is still a Turing chip, so I guess we should see it perform slightly better than the 1060 (I'm speculating it to be competitive with the RX 590, maybe).

 

Only thing I don't understand, why not name it 2050, because that's clearly what it is, why 1660?

 

I guess because it doesn't support RTX/DLSS so they didn't want people to get confused.

 

But they could name it GTX 2050 and GTX 205o Ti.

On the other hand TU116 just fits to be named 1160.

 

Idk they probably sat in a room with a focus group and asked them "GTX 2050 vs 1660 which makes it clearer that one is a different product group than the other" and the GTX vs RTX confused people. All these types of decisions are driven by marketing research. I personally prefer 2050 myself but Nvidia is going to do what their $500m marketing team is going to tell them so they can justify that expense.

 

The geek side of me is really interested in seeing the review of the GTX 1160. With nearly identical specs to the 1060, it will be great for comparing the performance of the two architectures.

 

Just look at the 1070 vs 2060. same CUDA count, similar clocks

 

That's true. The 1160 will supposedly use GDDR5, though, so it should be an even better comparison.

 

It's true that it would be the best comparison but since the 1070 has 256 bit bus, the effective bandwidth difference isn't as massive as you would think.
performance jump seems to be engine sensitive but nothing huge, the cards are underwhelming considering we got roughly the same perf/dollar in 2016.

 

If 1660 exists, what will the next generation be called? 1760?`
I would really like an explanation to the naming decision.

 

Absinthe.

 

Maybe in the next generation they won't need to cut raytracing for the lower models, making the whole range RTX 3000 series?

 

With such a low sales i wont be surpised if even 3000 series dont have the whole range.

 

Too bad for me the final specs of AV1 codec isn't out yet for final implementation into cards. That was the reason I got a GTX960 ( full H265 support ). Now why I got a 1060, don't ask, don't tell. But a 1160 with Hardware Support for AV1 that would be something to consider, since this codec is a collaboration of almost all big companies.

Nevermind anyway. Let's enjoy the 1060 a bit. It's as if I'm throwing money out of the window lately. Even Got an ASUS Z390 Gaming Plus, an i5 8500 and an SSD Samsung 860 ( had already two 850 ). Meanwhile my previous CPU ( i5 4690 ) was way more than enough for my games/movies/series etc. The i5 8500 single thread performance only increased by 12%. Obviously the multithreading only worth it, 57%. At least the Z390 supports 9th gen CPUs. I'll get the i7 9700 no matter what.

 

AV1 is still far off. even if final specs were out, the support and adoption would come much later.
and btw still most content is H.264....