Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti 3DMark benchmarks place it forward of the GTX 1070

Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti appears to be like prefer it’s began popping up within the 3DMark benchmarking database, with DirectX 12 Time Spy outcomes showing placing it comfortably forward of the GTX 1070 and somewhat behind the GTX 1070 Ti. As the discharge date looms ever nearer the leaks are gathering tempo too.

The full particulars of the benchmarking runs have been hidden by the customers, however with a bunch of such outcomes showing at present sporting the ‘Generic VGA’ title, and a leaked launch date of February 22, it appears to be like fairly seemingly that these are testing runs of the brand new Nvidia mainstream GPU.

We can’t but say what the usual clock pace is for the discharge variations of the Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti, however the outcomes posted at present vary from 1,770MHz as much as 1,950MHz. At the underside finish of the frequency vary the suspected GTX 1660 Ti scores 6,235 in Time Spy and on the prime finish hits 6,274. Either manner, that’s forward of our reference GTX 1070 card within the workplace which scores 5,974. Admittedly that’s solely a 4% enchancment over the outdated Pascal GPU, but it surely’s additionally reportedly delivery for round $100 much less too.

An Amazon listing for Gigabyte’s GTX 1660 Ti appeared on the retail big’s UK area, freely giving a bunch of the essential specs for Nvidia’s upcoming card and in addition leaking a February 22 delivery day. I feel we will now be fairly assured that’s going to be the GTX 1660 Ti launch date.

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The itemizing has now been eliminated, however screenshots nonetheless exist for the Gigabyte model and its triple-fan cooling array. The card was listed for £286, however that’s an overclocked model of the RTX-less Turing card, so the reference version of the GPU ought to be retailing for a superb deal lower than that. At launch the GTX 1060’s reference, non-Founders Edition playing cards had an MSRP of $249, however I doubt Nvidia goes to go fairly that low this time round. Other stories have put the brand new card’s MSRP at $279.

The precise overclocked frequency isn’t proven within the remaining screenshots, however the reminiscence clocks and structure are entrance and centre. This is a 6GB GDDR6 card, with a 192-bit reminiscence bus, and the reminiscence listed at 12Gbps.

The photographs additionally present the cardboard working with a single 8-pin PCIe energy connector on the top-side. Despite the smaller PCB, and lower down Turing GPU, it appears to be like just like the overclocked playing cards at the least are going to demand some severe energy out of your PC.

The potential GTX 1660 Ti GPUs within the Time Spy database don’t hail from Gigabyte, nevertheless, with solely MSI and Asus to this point represented, alongside a single easy ‘Nvidia’ itemizing. They do present promising efficiency, nevertheless, a lot increased than the Pascal equal card within the GTX 1060, and better once more than the following GPU up the specs sheet, the GTX 1070.

That does put it some 20% in need of the RTX 2060, so anybody who spent massive on the bottom rung of the RTX ladder shouldn’t really feel too involved in regards to the impending GPU launch.

There have additionally been some Final Fantasy XV outcomes leaked for the GTX 1660 Ti, which present an analogous enchancment over the GTX 1070. But we have now so little religion within the FF XV benchmark we’re going to rapidly gloss over these…