Asus may devalue Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti GPU with simply 3GB of reminiscence

Asus and Nvidia are busy working arduous to totally devalue the naming schemes of graphics playing cards. By introducing the potential of a 3GB model of the upcoming GTX 1660 Ti GPU what kind of belief can we have now within the title of a selected card? To be truthful, this isn’t the primary time we’ve needed to cope with this – Nvidia’s GTX 1060 fired the beginning gun on the race to the underside years in the past.

By creating GTX 1060 playing cards with 6GB, 3GB, and 4GB chunks of VRAM – in addition to vastly completely different precise GPUs in some situations – the most well-liked Pascal vary of all of them meant that having a GTX 1060 in your system may imply fully various things… So, whereas having one other mainstream GPU title that’s virtually meaningless just isn’t essentially sudden, it’s most positively not welcome.

The particular 3GB variations of the GTX 1660 Ti have appeared in one other Eurasian Economic Commission submission, this time from Asus. The silver lining in all that is that the product codes submitted to the EEC don’t at all times find yourself on the cabinets; they’re typically extra placeholder than any concrete affirmation of producing. Just take a look at all of the Nvidia GTX 1160s Palit registered final month.

The itemizing will be checked out on the EEC here (through Videocardz) if you wish to get a bead on the completely different fashions that Asus has registered. They embrace commonplace blower-style variations of the 3GB GTX 1660 Ti, in addition to manufacturing facility overclocked playing cards with further cooling.

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The notification itemizing additionally shows the 6GB variations of the playing cards, once more detailing the total vary of reference and overclocked SKUs. In whole there are 25 completely different SKUs of the GTX 1660 Ti listed within the EEC submission, although I don’t suppose there are going to be that many truly on the cabinets from Asus. As I mentioned, firms typically listing any product code they may probably use, not simply those which might be positively in manufacturing.

We can solely hope the GTX 1660 Ti doesn’t find yourself with a 3GB model. That’s not as a result of I feel shopping for a 3GB card in 2019 is extremely quick sighted, from an finish consumer perspective, however as a result of it makes having discrete graphics card names totally pointless.

And why have that ‘Ti’ suffix there within the first place?

A GTX 1660 with 3GB would make extra sense, or a GTX 1650, however the place the ‘Ti’ is mostly utilized by Nvidia to indicate a superior model of a selected GPU vary, having a weaker model utilizing the identical title appears ridiculous to me.

We ought to discover out quickly, as a result of by all accounts the GTX 1660 Ti is launching on February 22 with graphics card makers hitting the streets with their very own fashions instantly. I’m going to cease ragging on the entire naming factor now, as a result of I actually may go on for hours about it… I imply 16-series GPUs, what provides, Nvidia?

Anyways, the GTX 1660 Ti goes to be a Turing-based graphics card, supposedly utilizing a TU116 GPU with all of the RT Cores ripped out, in all probability together with the Tensor Cores too.

You will nonetheless be getting the Turing shaders, with all their superior concurrent execution and new rendering strategies, however with out being weighed down with the accountability of ushering in a ray traced gaming future. These might be pure rasterising playing cards constructed for a mainstream viewers that don’t wish to pay a fortune for a brand new GPU.