Tuesday, February 26th 2019
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and GTX 1650 Pricing and Availability Revealed
(Update 1: Andreas Schilling, at Hardware Luxx, seems to have obtained confirmation that NVIDIA's GTX 1650 graphics cards will pack 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, and that the GTX 1660 will be offering a 6 GB GDDR5 framebuffer.)
NVIDIA recently launched its GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card at USD $279, which is the most affordable desktop discrete graphics card based on the "Turing" architecture thus far. NVIDIA's GeForce 16-series GPUs are based on 12 nm "Turing" chips, but lack RTX real-time ray-tracing and tensor cores that accelerate AI. The company is making two affordable additions to the GTX 16-series in March and April, according to Taiwan-based PC industry observer DigiTimes.
The GTX 1660 Ti launch will be followed by that of the GeForce GTX 1660 (non-Ti) on 15th March, 2019. This SKU is likely based on the same "TU116" silicon as the GTX 1660 Ti, but with fewer CUDA cores and possibly slower memory or lesser memory amount. NVIDIA is pricing the GTX 1660 at $229.99, a whole $50 cheaper than the GTX 1660 Ti. That's not all. We recently reported on the GeForce GTX 1650, which could quite possibly become NVIDIA's smallest "Turing" based desktop GPU. This product is real, and is bound for 30th April, at $179.99, $50 cheaper still than the GTX 1660. This SKU is expected to be based on the smaller "TU117" silicon. Much like the GTX 1660 Ti, these two launches could be entirely partner-driven, with the lack of reference-design cards.
Sources:
DigiTimes, Andreas Schilling @ Twitter
NVIDIA recently launched its GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card at USD $279, which is the most affordable desktop discrete graphics card based on the "Turing" architecture thus far. NVIDIA's GeForce 16-series GPUs are based on 12 nm "Turing" chips, but lack RTX real-time ray-tracing and tensor cores that accelerate AI. The company is making two affordable additions to the GTX 16-series in March and April, according to Taiwan-based PC industry observer DigiTimes.
The GTX 1660 Ti launch will be followed by that of the GeForce GTX 1660 (non-Ti) on 15th March, 2019. This SKU is likely based on the same "TU116" silicon as the GTX 1660 Ti, but with fewer CUDA cores and possibly slower memory or lesser memory amount. NVIDIA is pricing the GTX 1660 at $229.99, a whole $50 cheaper than the GTX 1660 Ti. That's not all. We recently reported on the GeForce GTX 1650, which could quite possibly become NVIDIA's smallest "Turing" based desktop GPU. This product is real, and is bound for 30th April, at $179.99, $50 cheaper still than the GTX 1660. This SKU is expected to be based on the smaller "TU117" silicon. Much like the GTX 1660 Ti, these two launches could be entirely partner-driven, with the lack of reference-design cards.
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Just wait for fanboy crowd, yelling about "decent progress since my geforce 4", "you can't have it always for free", etc, etc - and you'll get it! ;)
Even assuming it has 4GB, it's still way more than 1050Ti - so it's more like a 1060 3GB successor.
I wonder what happened. Sub $150 GPU customers moved to laptops globally? It does seem likely, to be honest. 1050 notebooks got really cheap.
However, 1660 looks excellent. $229 is less than 1060 6GB MSRP ($249) and - based on rumored specs and 1660Ti results - it should easily be 20% faster.You'd have to be deaf or stupid to choose a blower Vega over pretty much anything available at this price point.
How much is Vega 56 with a human-friendly cooler in UK? 350-400 GBP? For that kind of money you can get the MSI Gaming 2060, which is faster and will still be quieter.
Seriously, it's no contest at the moment. You should stop defending Vega and focus on hyping Navi.
Still is sadness all over though in the greater scheme of things. Can't wait for 7nm.
trog
i've seen a lot of benchmarks and the 1660 is a damn good card. but currently the 56 is roughly same priced in the shops, so then you should consider it as an alternative.
or wait a few weeks for the price to settle down
currently: if you want low power usage the 1660 is ur winner. if you want 4k probably the 56.
Many users get the 1060 3gb thinking it is the 6gb or the TI version, as in1050/1050ti case. That's the only reason Nvidia is using this naming scheme.
Nvidia's been using the same naming conventions for decades now, its easy to understand and should be seen as an example to the industry, most notably Intel.
Which 1060 would you like? The 1060, 1060, or 1060? Keep in mind every one of these has either measurably different performance, or simply different pricing. I hope that they keep the 1660s well organized and don't refresh it every few months without changing the name.
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 2080
RTX 2070
RTX 2060
GTX 1660 Ti
GTX 1660
GTX 1650
Remember back when there were 2-3 GPU offerings per generation. Memories