After the spilling of some official presentation slide beans on the finish of January, it might seem the Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti may be very a lot on its means after a swathe of retail packing containers have been noticed within the wild. Packed with Nvidia’s next-gen Turing GPU however allegedly no ray tracing help, the present hearsay mill pegs the discharge of the GTX 1660 Ti as quickly as February 22 (that’s subsequent Friday), which is a bit later than the earlier estimate of this Friday, February 15, however nonetheless fairly rattling quickly. Is the GTX 1660 Ti the low-end GTX 1060, or certainly GTX 1050 Ti successor we’ve been ready for? Here’s all the things we all know so removed from the most recent set of leaky advertising pipes.
So far, there have been sightings of GTX 1660 Ti packing containers from Galax, Palit and EVGA, based on the eagle-eyed of us over at Hexus and VideoCardz. Both the Galax and Palit packing containers would seem to substantiate the GTX 1660 Ti will include 6GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, whereas all three of them make particular point out of getting ‘Turing Shaders’ within the little row of additional options down the underside.
However, the equally eagle-eyed amongst you’ll recall that the packing containers for Nvidia’s RTX graphics card packing containers have ‘RAY TRACING’ plastered throughout this bit the place it says ‘GDDR6, DirectX 12 and Ansel’, which might recommend that whereas the GTX 1660 Ti will certainly have a Turing-based GPU (therefore the shaders), its RT or ray tracing Cores are very a lot absent. Whether it would nonetheless help different Nvidia RTX options resembling DLSS is at present unknown, but when I have been to guess I’d most likely say not, given how Nvidia have now wrapped all these options collectively as ‘RTX’ of their numerous RTX On/Off demos and such.
I nonetheless suppose having a GTX 16-series is an immensely complicated transfer given how we’ve already obtained a mess of assorted 10-series playing cards muddying the waters of the nice generational graphics card divide, however what are you able to do within the face of Nvidia’s world advertising division, eh?
Anyway, one last attention-grabbing factor to notice is that whereas the Galax card pictured above is a dual-fan card, the Palit and EVGA fashions solely present single-fan coolers. Again, primarily based off nothing however my very own hypothesis, this could lead me to consider the GTX 1660 Ti is likely to be extra of a GTX 1050 Ti alternative than a GTX 1060 successor. Still, if Hexus’ proposed launch date of February 22 is to be believed, then we received’t have to attend very lengthy to search out out.
