Right my old crappy gtx 750ti does ok....but I do really wanna upgrade to something better but I need to just upgrade my whole damn PC since I can't over clock my CPU but fuck it for now I guess
I'm happy too. It definitely gives budget builds more room to play with, now we just gotta wait until AMD releases some more budget cards.. (rx 600 series maybe?)
sadly this is even the "best" case scenario compared to the rest of the stack. seeing as how everything else is pretty much the same level of performance for the same money 3 years ago. mainly, the 2070 and 2080. the 2080ti is in a world of its own.
@@dfuma213 there would be so many pissed off customers if the 2060 was 250$ and performed better than a 1080. I purchase my 1080ti just in time for prices to skyrocket after 2080 launch
changed my thermal paste on my gpu after watching your last video. now it runs at 60-70c instead of 70-80. RX 580 8gb that ive got running at 1400mhz and 60+ on memory. Thanks!
@@Kenzo-vr5vt welp maybe i can get a better gpu like in the future, im a college dude so yeah aint no way my parents are letting me have one until i graduate go to university and later get a job. There will be probably better budget gpus by then, and maybe dying light 2 would be released so i can play it!
By the time they reach that number sequence again, it's not called GTX anymore. Probably not even RTX. There was already Geforce 6 series a decade ago.
@@an1ketsharma basically saturating the midrange market with several cards at very similar close prices....so when amd comes along with navi, which will probably be toward midrange market ($200-$300 cards at vega 64 levellike performance with 8 gddr6 imo), nvidia willl basically already have an answer/competition to it or can just put sales.
Nvidia's like shopping in the supermarket. 12oz can of beer is now 10oz. Pound of coffee is now 14oz. Snickers bar is a touch smaller also. All of it's designed so we think we're getting the usual, and with Nvidia, we're getting a more powerful card to replace our 1060. Am sure they will launch a 1670 and 1680 soon. And they still got the 17, 18 and 1900's to fill. Other than confusing the consumer, which is pretty normal, they at least keep all the TH-cam channels busy running benchmarks!
They will NEVER release "the 17, 18 and 1900's to fill" in the current state of the GPU market. We should rather hope that Intel and AMD actually stick it to Nvidia and compete, but it seems like a stretch that Nvidia would cannibalize their own lineup
Well, except they're not. You're not getting *less* performance for the same money as compared to previous generations. You're getting more. It'd be like the grocery store upsizing their packaging so that now you're getting 20oz in a "pound of coffee" instead of 16oz. Also, your video card isn't like coffee. It doesn't run out regularly, and you're not likely to keep buying new ones unless you actually need one because your old one broke or just can't hack it anymore. I get that people are butthurt that cards aren't getting both faster *and* cheaper at the same time, or at least justifying the price of the new generation with ridiculous huge performance leaps, but we're not in the era of Moore's law anymore. Something had to give. But the value proposition in terms of processing power per dollar is overall still getting better, not backsliding.
I bought a used gigabyte 1660 6GB for $110 from a friend, who used the card for a few days and went on to upgrade to an RTX 2060. That was a year ago. Now i look at the prices and it gets me everytime.
Jay, what are your thoughts regarding budget builds and the current graphics environment? Last year several channels did builds in the $300 to $500 range using the 2200G or 2400G to avoid the insane (at the time) graphics and memory markups. What is the current upgrade path? Another 8 gigs of memory and a 1660 TI? Replace a slow 8 gig kit with a fast 16 gig and a 1660? Straight to the 2060? Thanks for what you do!
Go straight to the 2060 if you were planning on buying a 1660 or the ti already it’s not that much more. That’s the general census about GPUs currently since it’s 50% more performance in a 2060 over 1660ti for only roughly 30% more price along with the features of DLSS and ray tracing if you even feel the need to. The ram the case is almost any type of ram can reach 2933mhz fairly easily and past that frequency there’s not as major gains on ryzen so I’d get 16gbs of total system memory. If you do not have an SSD yet that is the biggest upgrade you can make on a system I believe personally and so do many others even if it’s a small 60gb one just to hold windows you’ll notice the difference in programs not just startup. Hopefully that helps. :)
Are you running 2x4GB sticks with 2 slots or 4 slots? If 4 slots then I'd say just get another set of 2 sticks. RAM speed isn't going to make that big of a difference unless you got bottom shelf 2133-2400mhz RAM. If you're purely going for value I'd say get a 1660 and another 8GB. However if you really want to spend a set amount of money then I'd say get the 1660Ti with another 8GB of RAM over a 1660 with a new set of 16 GB of RAM. 1-2. GTX 1660 with 8GB of RAM. (Value) 1-2. GTX 1660Ti with 8GB of RAM. (More likely to increase performance than option 3) 3. GTX 1660 with a new 16GB kit.
Look for refurbished items as well instead of purchasing them new. My current setup cost around $600 and has got great upgrade potentials. -Ryzen 2200G -GTX 1060 3GB Refurb (Saved $150) -16 GB RAM (8x2) - 512 GB Samsung SSD - 1 TB Blue WD HDD Refurb (Saved $10) - MSI Gaming Motherboard Tomahawk Refurb (Saved $75)
Charley Fernandez refurbs are sketchy imo. Refurb usually means something broke at one point in time and usually the warranties are like 30 days to a year. Your better off buying a used one that works, it’s usually cheaper as well.
@@finallyucanstop6991 After May all Driver Issues got fixed.. U have to reinstall the whole driver and it will run fine. My 5600 XT had some issues at begin, but got fixed. My 5700 XT somehow never got issues at all.
5 years minimum for a GTX 1070ti I run 1080 games and edit in photoshop and premiere pro 1080 footage and aspc sized photos with a GTX 750 upgrading to GTX 1050 or RX 460 or RX 470 sorting by used and lowest price on eBay.
I wish I could've gotten a 6GB 1060 at the time but my budget was really strict. The 3GB is still working fine though so I probably wont have to upgrade for another couple or more years yet.
oh yeah, the 1060 will do fine for the next few years. there's always pressure to upgrade but in reality, if you're fine with decreasing graphics settings a little, there's really no point in dropping over $250 on another graphics card. i would do a cpu upgrade before a gpu upgrade, hands down.
I upgraded from the EVGA 970 Gaming to the 1660ti 6Gb XC Ultra. Honestly, I am very happy with the results I have been receiving from this card. And, IMO, very negotiable on the pricing. I did not have $400-$700 for the 20xx series, so I opted for the one I got. $309+sh+$25 more for the quick ship option on NewEgg. Everything plays fine on 1080p with Max settings, and I could not be happier.
@@xsebyx1746 Technically no, 2k is some sort of cinema res usually 2048x1080, which is 1/4 of cinema 4k (4096x2160). 1440p is just that, or usually known as QHD. But it's slowly becomin gone of those things where so many people use the phrase "2k" wrongly that it'll soon just become the wrong thing, 1440p. But in no logical way is 2k a good description for 2560x1440.
Looking back This was awful advice to save my money I don't have a 20 series or a 30 series, and I couldn't get my hands on them (even if I wanted to) And the 16 series is now at 400$ on average Fuck.
Just snagged one on Offerup for $180. The guy was selling it for $120 and already had someone lined up to buy it. He just said to check back to see if it sells. I replied back that it will sell and his card is actually able to sell for $350-400. He then offered it to me for $200 since I told him it was worth more and we agreed on $180 which was more than fair. Score. TMI i know. The guy that was first in line to buy it for $120 sure wouldn't be thrilled with me. 🤣
@@jonas6293 and considering everyone is using overkill PSU's i dont see the problem here. almost everyone is running a 650w psu nowadays, I have a 4ghz 2700 and a 2070 running on less than 400w.
Buy 1660ti rather than 1660 oc, simply because 1660ti uses an entirely different memory, it runs at 6001 mhz where 1660's gddr5 runs at 4001mhz, it will give you some benefit later on. Rtx card always not necessary, because ray tracing is optional, but you need faster memory in future. So 1660ti msrp model is the choice if you are a 1080p ultra gamer for AAA games.
@@Ricardo-ki1qq I'm also looking to buy one. So the evga xc is the best one according to you? Based on what, temperature? Price? Clock speed? There are so many versions that I am kinda lost haha
Sitting here, seven years later, still stuck with my 1060 3G, because the planned rtx 3060/rtx 3060 super upgrade is not really an option with this market. Whatevs, I'll just hold out until october 2022, and hope things have come down by then.
@@ZeryArtzTM I bough a EVGA GTX 1070 FTW2 ICX card last summer for 275$ lightly used, and man, what a fantastic card this has been, I want the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX Vega 64 DirectX 12 100410NT+SR 8GB 2048-Bit HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card next. I'm about to be done with Nvidia, going back to AMD.
I think that's an exaggeration. The VRAM requirements certainly haven't gone up like that in just 1.5 years for the vast majority of new games. But it would certainly help to have more in the future, I suppose
I would much rather see a "1670" or "1680" and ti variants of those at this point.. Something that can beat my current 1080FE that doesn't cost 1000$... Jeez... Is that really too much to ask at this point.!?.
@@baitman546 umm.. Not really at all.. Like 2-5fps. For literally the same price I paid for my 1080 over a year ago.. And Pascal has been out for what over 3 years now and yet the price to performance hasnt gone well... Most of us are waiting for 1080Ti performance for less then 500-600$ at this point.. It would only make sense if you look at previous gens..a lot of us are in limbo waiting for a better card at a good price..
@SmashStomp Inc brother... I'm glad you said it.. Cuz I can't agree more..I was being generous to The greedy ass companies with the pricing I said previously... But.. Yes.. Hell yes I agree with you.. It's about damn time we get at least 1080Ti performance for 400-...
* looks at the price of the GTX 1660 Ti here in Brazil and sees it costs well over 2500 bucks (R$ 2500. Think of it like $ 2500, just so you know how expensive it really is), in average * Yup. I should definitely keep my 1060 6GB for a while longer.
I think I am sticking with my 970 and 60fps 1080p monitor, which is working perfectly fine, unless nVidia messes up something with drivers again, but than I would consider AMD.
Speaking of 980s, have you seen all these 980s going up in flames as of late? This is something I've never seen from any GPU. Saw a few posts on the EVGA forum.
Oh fuck my Super Jetstream 1060 card just failed and shown artifact in the display. Gonna send it now for rma. Used that card without oc for 1.5 years now. Pretty disappointed
I'm still wondering why they didn't place the 1660 and 1660ti with the rest of the lineup in terms of naming. Imo it should have been GTX2060 / GTX 2060ti / RTX2060 / RTX 2070 / RTX 2080. As they all use the turing architecture and the gtx versions simply have the ray tracing feature stripped away. Putting these two cards in the 11 series lineup must make them look like last generation cards for anyone not keeping up with tech.
end of 2022, sold old 1060 3G high and got used OEM 1660ti for SAME price :) now can upgrade my i5 4460 Veteran to i7 4770 , still enough for today for me
Man, I'm torn. I am looking at the 1660, 1660ti and the 2060. Now I have the money to buy any three of them. BUT, I also want to get a CPU cooler so I can overclock my R5 2600. But I want a GPU that will last me possibly a couple years. Until I can afford to buy a whole new PC. This is my first PC and I am currently running a RX 580 4gb. So any of these will be upgrades for me. I don't know what to do! Jay, Just straight up tell me which one to get! haha
If money isn't a consideration between those three definitely get the 2060. It is the most powerful of the three and it supports RTX. Whether or not RTX becomes wildly adopted remains to be seen - consider it insurance.
Alex Moerman Yeah. That’s what I decided to get. Going to wait on the cpu cooler because the 2600 is perfectly fine at stock clock speeds for gaming. I’ll get a cooler next pay check 😂 Thanks!
I’m confused... according to Jay, the 1660 competes with the gtx 1060 3gb.... but the 1660 is even better than the 1060 6gb! So, shouldn’t it compete with the 6gb instead?
There were two different 1060s the 3gb (less powerful) and the 6gb (more powerful. These line up with the next generation of cards. The 1660 being the new generations 1060 3gb equivalent and the 1660 ti being the 1060 6gb equivalent. Hope that makes sense
When I first got into pc building, I got duped by the 1060 3GB. Even doing a good amount of research I was only able to determine that the difference was that frame buffer (which obviously wasn’t actually the case) because I thought “Oh I’ll only ever play at 1080p, I don’t need a 6GB card, I can save the 60 or so dollars!” And I’m still a little bitter to this day, so I’m glad to see Nvidia isn’t pulling that trash again with Turing
Austin Lewis “even doing a good amount of research” im no genius but just about everyone tries to steer people away from 3gb cards. And i know no one recommended that card.
That Guy yeah at the time no one was making videos berating the 3GB, I had to look at product pages and then look up “what does 3GB mean?” And I even found forums being like “oh yeah the performance dividend shouldn’t be huge” so I got pranked real hard. About to upgrade to a 2060 so I’m excited (I have a stable 5ghz on my i5-8600k so that will be a nice performance bump to my system)
ugh.. So that means my 1080 will be the same as a 2160 when they come out, whatever they will be called. I think they do that to embarrass you into buying the more expensive cards.
There are generations and different categories in each. Gens being 700s 1000s 1600s 2000s 3000s and categories being 60, 60super,60 ti, 70,70 super, 70ti, 80,80 super, 80ti, 90,90super, 90ti. Basically 700s
Essentially, if you ALREADY have a 1060 6GB, the cost of upgrading to a 1660ti wouldn't be worth your money. Save the money toward a better card later on, or other possible components, like faster RAM.
THis card is aimed at 960 owners, you really shouldnt upgrade for every generation, id say wait a generation unless you are upgrading from a 60 to 70 series card.
Whats a good budget card to upgrade from a gtx 1050 2gb? I'm just trying to play insurgency sandstorm without it stuttering lol. i don't care about graphics.
@@officialsouthsoul5223 Depending on your budget, the solid budget cards for this gen would be rx 570,580 and the 1660, depending on your budget. the rx cards are pretty power hungry, but do have great performance for the price.
Go 1660 219$ model or go for a 2060. Everything in between is just filler and literally a waste of money. It will not matter much in daily use and "a few extra FPS" will not be visible during normal gaming since the difference isn't large enough. Even though the 1660 TI seems to be a lot better on paper, it's simply not on "a different level". It's not like the difference between the different cards in the 10XX series like the 1060 3GB and 1060 6GB - or the 1050 vs the 1050 TI where the 2 gigs of RAM on the 1050 was massively inferior to the 4GB on the 1050 TI - which made it an actual usable card where the 1050 was much less so. Nvidia might have screwed up at bit in making the 1660 and the 1660 TI a bit too similar to justify the extra cost, especially with the performance jump you get if you buy a 2060. The 2060 can run many titles at a totally different level - which means: If you can't afford a 20XX card, go for the "good enough" solution - which is the 1660 - OR - Wait ½ a year for the AMD Navi and hope that will shake up the marked - and then buy the card with more horsepower.
- Retrospective - Hope you didn't wait! hahaha ... But yes have a PC with a GTX 1660 - and whenever it's in use I forget that it's only a GTX 1660 because it still to this day does very well.
i had to pause just to comment how awesome the soundtrack is @5:00 during the benchmarks. I had to rewind 3 times because I'd bang to the metal rather than watch your results! :P
Why? Because gtx 1060 is 3 yrs old card now and we need next generation of them and gtx 1660 is an step above, the price is the same so why would you want to compere cheaper card with older more expensive one from different price segment? We should compare gtx 1070 with rtx2070.
@@kurobushi7746 But is the gtx 1660ti successor to the gtx 1060 or gtx 1070? If you said the 1060 or 1070 you are wrong... we got rtx 2060 and rtx 2070 i believe the gtx 1660 and gtx 1660ti should be compared to gtx 1050ti or even gtx 1050, if we are talking about generation step. If the price is similar we should expect better performance it was almost 3 years! So we should compare 1660ti to the gtx 1060 it's the same card, marketed to the same buyers at the same price with better performance. You aren't going to change your gtx 1070 to the gtx 1660ti or none ti version but maybe someone with 2-3year old gtx 1050 will get the 1660ti as it offers a nice boost in FPS.
The more research I do the 1660ti seems a great card to get right now, but if I have the cash in a month or so I might go for the 8gb 2060 extreme or whatever it's called, but only time will tell, most likely the 1660ti though 😎
@@tjs8617 I got a 1660 super and it's fantastic and play everything on high-ultra with very good fps with my Ryzen 5 1600. Also seemed to hit the jackpot with my cpu as the highest temp it's ever reached on OC was 53.75 degrees C on a summers day that was 41 C xD
I agree with you Jay, I just buy the entry level version of a card. If I'm gonna pony up more dough for a GPU, it's gonna be for more performance and not aesthetics. There are always exceptions, but I never had a reference card that ran too hot or was too noisy. Maybe I'm just lucky?
why nvidia why so there it is we have preveous gen gtx1060 as base actual by 209€ 0% gtx 1660 +10% new at 229€ gtx1660ti +20% 279€ gtx 1070+40%/rtx 2060 299€/330€ gtx 1070ti +50% 370€ gtx1080 rtx 2070 +90% 490€ no reason to upgrade my max invest in new gpu is 300€ and this must be at least 100%+ funny fact 500€ you payed 2017 for the gtx1080 before mining hype
Is it just me or is the prices skyrocketing? I looked up this card on newegg just to see if it's more affordable than the 1650 I'm looking at and average price I'm seeing on this card is like 800.
Lowest price for a 1660 in my country is about 220€. I just bought a Rx 580 for 150€, and the performance is roughly the same. Thats about 40% less, which in my opinion, is huge. Do your homework and buy what is best for you!
@@user-yz4oc7nc7v Hi bro, thanks for asking I'm using a Ryzen 5 2400g, unfortunately becoz I can't seem to find a Ryzen 5 1600 or 2600 at the time I purchased my pc.
Of course now, the cheapest 1660 available is $250 if you can get it. And a 2060 runs $500 and more. I've got one of those cards that "should have never existed", I got a 1060 3GB. And of course the 30 series is astronomical. Nothing is available that I'm willing to pay.
I bought my 1060 3GB during the inflated prices Got it for £200 and the 6GB were £340 My GPU still works good, wish these cards came out earlier but I don't need an upgrade
@@DefensiveLimestone ah I get that. There wasn't much choice for me at the time, and the 3GB wasn't too bad compared to the 6GB I would love to upgrade, but for the time being my 1060 works fine on all the games I play everyday
Cookie Rager it’s that urge you get and it’s like you just get a compulsion to upgrade but then you realize you have enough power Preferably for me when I saw this generation it was too expensive considering Last generation we got a 2060 which was equivalent to a 980 for only $250 now we’re getting the same equivalency except for 350 which is not worth it so I’ll wait another generation
T S I got the 1060 6gb as well around last July, thank god I got the 6gb because now if you look at recent testing the cut in VRAM is really chopping and taking a toll on the frame rate to the point that it isn’t a 1060
Purchasing options right now: RX 570 unmatched value at 1080p; RTX 2060 - it's unmatched value at 1440p - you get 1070ti performance and RTX cores; RTX 2080 - if you are at 4K and have money to burn for days, you get the best card in the consumer stack. (And before someone complains RTX 2080ti is the Titan of Turing and is not in the consumer stack with that crazy price it has.)
@Merkur Stern Vega 56 goes for $300 now (www.amazon.com/dp/B07BRCZG3M/?tag=pcpapi-20). RTX 2060 is usually $350 ± $10. (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1456229-REG/msi_g2060v6c_geforce_rtx_2060_ventus.html). Both cards are similar in performance. If you want to get technical, UserBenchmark rates the Vega 56 a bit higher than the RTX 2060 (gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2060-6GB-vs-AMD-RX-Vega-56/4034vs3938). However, games do sometimes prefer Nvidia cards. If you really want to put those RT cores to use, get a better card such as the RTX 2070. Edit: How the hell do you use the @ symbol?
So a 1060 6g should've actually been called a 1060 ti. Also I'm about to upgrade from a 2g msi 960 from 2015 to a used 6g gigabyte 1060 that costs 120 euro (There are cheaper but this one supposedly wasnt used for cryptomining and it's in good condition and is a 6 gig). Wish me luck. I wish I got a msi one since theyre sexy af but oh well. A 960 2g goes for around 50 euro here so I guess I'll try to sell it to make some money back.
I'm just here to flex my Intel HD Graphics.
Rich boi
Did it bent?
I’ll loot you for your card rich girl😂
Same
i have intel hd graphics 4600 .. don't be jealous allright!
2 years ago: This Video Card Is trash don't buy it
Now: This trash will do.
Isaac Chen true ;)
Greetings from the future .BUY EVERYTHING!!!!
LOL true enough nobody can afford the new cards what they charging even second hand
i just sold mine
these 230-250$ cards are now at their lowest 450$, but even thats pretty rare, what a perfect time to be building a pc with only a gpu missing, fml
"save your money" I'm sorry, what money are we talking about?
are you idiot ?
@@maniaque37 you englando well?
the money we dont have :D btw bought a rx580 8gb for 150 bucks
@@maniaque37 are you can talking English?
Got RX570. The real upgrade would be RTX 2060 or Vega.
"The 3 Gig is a card that should have never existed and no one should have never bought in the first place".
But... I have a GTX 1060 3G. :(
It was good enough for 1080p at the time it came out, but obviously not a card you were gonna keep for years to come, that much was obvious.
should've gone for 1060 6gb instead
The 1060 3gb is the best version of the 1060 because it's not overpriced.
What are you talking about my 1060 3gb passmark 10500 and still runs new games really well
RX 570 4G gang
Guess I'll keep overclocking my poor old 760 for a couple more years..
Lololol
I can’t even overclock my cpu or gpu
@@sunshyn3745 big oof
Right my old crappy gtx 750ti does ok....but I do really wanna upgrade to something better but I need to just upgrade my whole damn PC since I can't over clock my CPU but fuck it for now I guess
my 760 started dying today :c
Thank god in our country gpu's are so overpriced we dont have this kind of problems lmao
the 30$ difference he is talking about is like 70$ difference in my country!
@@manishgoyal7677 you from India ? The 1660 to costs more than the 350$, this is just nuts.
@@you.notyou.me.8372 blame our country for stupid taxes on graphics cards
@@terencedsouza2885 your country isn't the only one doing so..Fuck them
In my country the difference is almost 500 reais. wich in dollar is something like 125,00
The mid range is getting saturated, I'm happy.
Yet without navi those offerings dont really add much thanks to the vram and rtx policy
I'm happy too. It definitely gives budget builds more room to play with, now we just gotta wait until AMD releases some more budget cards.. (rx 600 series maybe?)
Why is that a good thing?
@@Skyrilla more competition = better prices.
@@amoniousbt1110 I guess you're right. I'm still waiting for the 2070 prices to go down a smidge...
So 15% faster than the 1060 for the same price almost 3 years later really Nvidia.
wizzgamer the 2060 should have been none RTX and should ave been 250$ an have 1080 performance. It’s sad what is going on with midrange
If AMD comes with a good card like the rx480 back in the day that would be nice
@@dfuma213 if it was that easy for them they would do it,its bussines they aint gonna do that,hurts their pockets
sadly this is even the "best" case scenario compared to the rest of the stack. seeing as how everything else is pretty much the same level of performance for the same money 3 years ago. mainly, the 2070 and 2080. the 2080ti is in a world of its own.
@@dfuma213 there would be so many pissed off customers if the 2060 was 250$ and performed better than a 1080. I purchase my 1080ti just in time for prices to skyrocket after 2080 launch
"The 3Gb should never existed"
*Me looking at my 3GB Asus Card*
Well shit, time for me to sell it *whistling*
*insert poker face
You: *looking at GPU
Your GPU: *_what?_*
@@babarimen what do u need tidsue paper haha
Dude said my 630 wasn't even a gaming card...
@@ccarson its more of a gaming card then my Intel HD 4000
I'll stick with my intel hd 520
Rafa Ei big Oof, I just sold my house and bought a rtx 2070
@@crazycajunj1703 gta v 20fps
Ive got intel hd 5500
@@crazycajunj1703 I'm playing just cause 4 on lowest settings 1080p with hd 530
@@rafaei8320 why do that to yourself? 20 fps?
The 1660ti card makes zero sense in the Aussie market. $569 for a 1660ti oc or $579 for a RTX 2060 oc. hmm....tough decision.
10$ is way too much, 1660 is better
I got a zotac 1660ti amp for 450 AUD here in indonesia
@@mertacar5668 tf do you mean lmao. For 10 dollars more, get a fucking RTX 2060 OC
@Genes lmao
@@ryan-fq7go r/woooosh
Both funny and sad watching it today.
People that are waiting for Navi
👇🏽
I ant 😀
enlighten me, what is Navi?
I'm likely just going to buy the Radeon 7. But if the value is insane I'll buy NaVi.
Yes. TSMC has provided the majority of performance improvements of graphics cards and Navi first truly next gen card in that sense since Pascal.
Navi gonna give you up
Navi gonna let you down
Navi gonna run around and desert you
changed my thermal paste on my gpu after watching your last video. now it runs at 60-70c instead of 70-80. RX 580 8gb that ive got running at 1400mhz and 60+ on memory. Thanks!
"Revived" some "old" quadros with that. From borderline 85 down to 70ish. 3d-guys are happy. Customer saved 30k on new cards ;)
@Dok Lk7 I doubt it, some cards ship with horrible thermal paste.
overclock a tuna?
@@kennybroothaerts7521 he definitely was trying to say that. So it would cook better.
It sounds like you have a better case than Jayz2cents. And bad thermal paste would normally go from 90-100c.
Ahhh when there was a plenty of Cards and now can't find a single card at a decent Price.
1660 ti is $400 now =(
Why not buy 3060 ? I think its 400
@@Kenzo-vr5vt is it out? If it is i still can't buy it 😂😂😂
@@itsaboveyoupleasedontlooku299 i think
@@Kenzo-vr5vt welp maybe i can get a better gpu like in the future, im a college dude so yeah aint no way my parents are letting me have one until i graduate go to university and later get a job. There will be probably better budget gpus by then, and maybe dying light 2 would be released so i can play it!
What website has the 1660 ti for 400 i would like to check it out
I'm glad there's more midrange options but..... WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE NAMING SCEMES
Why not just call it a 1160 ti?????
@@GandalfTheSilver 1660 and 1660 Ti sounds much more high end and will probably sell more cards.
@@nyl0n733
Agreed. To the casual consumer, the name might mislead one to assume that it is superior to the 1080.
GTX 6969 would have been more logical name
By the time they reach that number sequence again, it's not called GTX anymore. Probably not even RTX.
There was already Geforce 6 series a decade ago.
@@RadioactiveBlueberry I actually owned Asus A8N-SLI and two 6800GT's in SLI. Doesn't make 1660 one more bit logical name for this thing.
Now that would be a HOT card ;p
w-wow...
@@RadioactiveBlueberry except it is the 69 series
1060 3gb reject squad assemble!
ikr
🥺
Lol
You guys game with graphics cards?
Console reject squad assemble 🤧
$250 for the card, but if you upgrade for $50 more Nvidia will personally will send someone to slap you for free.🤣🤣🤣
what did you try to say?
how can it be free if you paid for it?
@@mwnciboo Nvidia normally charges for slaps so that's a pretty good deal.
whats next, the gtx 1330 ti? Will it be a "gaming card?"
My GTX 1330 ti extreme black oc gamers edition w/ RGB gets 60+ fps at 480p
My GTX 1330 can get 30fps at 480p! Absolutely playable frame rate.
Probably a GT 1630.... Lulz
anything that plays LoL/CS:go at a reasonable fps will be called gaming card.
#RTXMasterRace
RX580: *_"Allow me to Introduce myself"_*
crystalier the Rog strix version is only about $150 on Amazon!!!!! What a steal for an AMD 1060
@@NoonMight ah yes amd 1060
Tax-fraud-o-saurus 😂
Nvidia usually has better cards though also nvidia software is better than amd
Superior464 what software are you talking about , drivers?
Nvidia is crowding the stack so AMD can't jam a card into an open niche
MBA right there
I didn't get it ... Can you explain it to me my brother ?
@@an1ketsharma basically saturating the midrange market with several cards at very similar close prices....so when amd comes along with navi, which will probably be toward midrange market ($200-$300 cards at vega 64 levellike performance with 8 gddr6 imo), nvidia willl basically already have an answer/competition to it or can just put sales.
@Aniket Sharma Nvidia are filling the market with GPUs across the price ranges to try stop AMD from pinching any value spotlights.
@@NateT092 What if they have a better performing GPU than the same card offered at the same price. Will this theory be still applicable ?
Nvidia's like shopping in the supermarket. 12oz can of beer is now 10oz. Pound of coffee is now 14oz. Snickers bar is a touch smaller also. All of it's designed so we think we're getting the usual, and with Nvidia, we're getting a more powerful card to replace our 1060. Am sure they will launch a 1670 and 1680 soon. And they still got the 17, 18 and 1900's to fill.
Other than confusing the consumer, which is pretty normal, they at least keep all the TH-cam channels busy running benchmarks!
The grocery store people invented modern marketing, a spot on observation.
They will NEVER release "the 17, 18 and 1900's to fill" in the current state of the GPU market. We should rather hope that Intel and AMD actually stick it to Nvidia and compete, but it seems like a stretch that Nvidia would cannibalize their own lineup
Well, except they're not. You're not getting *less* performance for the same money as compared to previous generations. You're getting more. It'd be like the grocery store upsizing their packaging so that now you're getting 20oz in a "pound of coffee" instead of 16oz. Also, your video card isn't like coffee. It doesn't run out regularly, and you're not likely to keep buying new ones unless you actually need one because your old one broke or just can't hack it anymore.
I get that people are butthurt that cards aren't getting both faster *and* cheaper at the same time, or at least justifying the price of the new generation with ridiculous huge performance leaps, but we're not in the era of Moore's law anymore. Something had to give. But the value proposition in terms of processing power per dollar is overall still getting better, not backsliding.
i dont think youre supposed to replace the 1060 with a 1660
@@wasd____ Nothing you said here justifies Nvidia's blatant price gouging with their RTX line.
I bought a used gigabyte 1660 6GB for $110 from a friend, who used the card for a few days and went on to upgrade to an RTX 2060. That was a year ago. Now i look at the prices and it gets me everytime.
I'm like, yeah, maybe it's time to upgrade my 750 ti
I am here Crying with gt610
I always feel bad for comments like these until I realized I used 4th gen i5 integrated graphics until recently. It can always be worse lol
What about the ITX 200000430ti super pro max Radeon Vega athlon ryzen atx micro atx i9 i7 i5 I3 core thread ripper Xeon epyc ??
It’s only 9000$ for the blower version and gets 20 FPS on 32k
@@bhabadipTWO-ONE same bro 🤣🤣🤣 i'm pointing to Buy a GTX 960
Jay, could you please have a performance table or something ?
I'm getting old and all these cards are just making my head explode.
Performance chart summary [13 games avg]:
1080p: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pR5enXkLN7CaZJ6eVzdVBf-650-80.png
1440p: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LSUURZuFofqoZQ7pTXUY7E-650-80.png
Source: www.pcgamer.com/au//nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-review/
That's nvidias's plan
Lol in India im getting a 1660 cheaper than 1060 6gb but still the prices here are like 3 times as compared to other countries
yep
Which model and where?
@@dumboart9211 go on Amazon
@@alexmercer6585 which model??
go for vega 56 asus strix variant is currently being sold for $337 or 22999 ruppees on vedant and md computers
Jay, what are your thoughts regarding budget builds and the current graphics environment? Last year several channels did builds in the $300 to $500 range using the 2200G or 2400G to avoid the insane (at the time) graphics and memory markups. What is the current upgrade path? Another 8 gigs of memory and a 1660 TI? Replace a slow 8 gig kit with a fast 16 gig and a 1660? Straight to the 2060? Thanks for what you do!
Go straight to the 2060 if you were planning on buying a 1660 or the ti already it’s not that much more. That’s the general census about GPUs currently since it’s 50% more performance in a 2060 over 1660ti for only roughly 30% more price along with the features of DLSS and ray tracing if you even feel the need to. The ram the case is almost any type of ram can reach 2933mhz fairly easily and past that frequency there’s not as major gains on ryzen so I’d get 16gbs of total system memory. If you do not have an SSD yet that is the biggest upgrade you can make on a system I believe personally and so do many others even if it’s a small 60gb one just to hold windows you’ll notice the difference in programs not just startup. Hopefully that helps. :)
Are you running 2x4GB sticks with 2 slots or 4 slots? If 4 slots then I'd say just get another set of 2 sticks. RAM speed isn't going to make that big of a difference unless you got bottom shelf 2133-2400mhz RAM. If you're purely going for value I'd say get a 1660 and another 8GB. However if you really want to spend a set amount of money then I'd say get the 1660Ti with another 8GB of RAM over a 1660 with a new set of 16 GB of RAM.
1-2. GTX 1660 with 8GB of RAM. (Value)
1-2. GTX 1660Ti with 8GB of RAM. (More likely to increase performance than option 3)
3. GTX 1660 with a new 16GB kit.
Look for refurbished items as well instead of purchasing them new. My current setup cost around $600 and has got great upgrade potentials.
-Ryzen 2200G
-GTX 1060 3GB Refurb (Saved $150)
-16 GB RAM (8x2)
- 512 GB Samsung SSD
- 1 TB Blue WD HDD Refurb (Saved $10)
- MSI Gaming Motherboard Tomahawk Refurb (Saved $75)
Charley Fernandez refurbs are sketchy imo. Refurb usually means something broke at one point in time and usually the warranties are like 30 days to a year. Your better off buying a used one that works, it’s usually cheaper as well.
@@thecraftedalliance I have not seen any benchmark test where a 2060 outperforms a 1660ti by 50%.
1660ti isn't even bad for the price
Crusader5 5 but the rx 5600 XT claps
Yes but driver issues
@@finallyucanstop6991 After May all Driver Issues got fixed.. U have to reinstall the whole driver and it will run fine. My 5600 XT had some issues at begin, but got fixed. My 5700 XT somehow never got issues at all.
This is so cool!
Video is made when graphics card companies could ship products!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saving my cash, and waits for next gen. My used 1070 Ti will do fine for a few more years. ;)
Im affride of buying used gpu :(
event horizon Id be most scared of a used motherboard tbh
5 years minimum for a GTX 1070ti I run 1080 games and edit in photoshop and premiere pro 1080 footage and aspc sized photos with a GTX 750 upgrading to GTX 1050 or RX 460 or RX 470 sorting by used and lowest price on eBay.
Mystic Sabre what’s your budget for a gpu?
@@Hungryminecrafterz Anything that doesn't bottleneck a Gen 4 i5 4460 and 16gb ddr3
about 8 months ago i bought my 1060 6gb for $315 on sale and right now ITS 200 GOD DAMN DOLLARS ACVABDJFKA,DSFABH
i got it for 167 dls... but i just returned it to get the 6gb for 195 dls lol
@ i want to die
I wish I could've gotten a 6GB 1060 at the time but my budget was really strict. The 3GB is still working fine though so I probably wont have to upgrade for another couple or more years yet.
just bought one yesterday :P
oh yeah, the 1060 will do fine for the next few years. there's always pressure to upgrade but in reality, if you're fine with decreasing graphics settings a little, there's really no point in dropping over $250 on another graphics card. i would do a cpu upgrade before a gpu upgrade, hands down.
Kept on missing this benchmarks because I was too busy headbanging... #FirstWorldProblems
Seriously... Song?
every f***in time!!!
I upgraded from the EVGA 970 Gaming to the 1660ti 6Gb XC Ultra. Honestly, I am very happy with the results I have been receiving from this card. And, IMO, very negotiable on the pricing. I did not have $400-$700 for the 20xx series, so I opted for the one I got. $309+sh+$25 more for the quick ship option on NewEgg. Everything plays fine on 1080p with Max settings, and I could not be happier.
i got a gtx 1060 3gb for $89. I think this was a good deal right?
For me it's pretty cool to see that a £200 GPU can game at 1440p at max, a little graphics tweaking then very easily. 1440p is now low budget viable.
Lol, my monitor is 1080p so no 2k for me
@@xsebyx1746 *1440p
@@killerfugu2659 wait isnt 2k 1440p, cauze I see 2k monitors, and on YT rezolution I only see 1440p the 4k, so I tauth 1440p is 2k
@@xsebyx1746 Technically no, 2k is some sort of cinema res usually 2048x1080, which is 1/4 of cinema 4k (4096x2160).
1440p is just that, or usually known as QHD.
But it's slowly becomin gone of those things where so many people use the phrase "2k" wrongly that it'll soon just become the wrong thing, 1440p. But in no logical way is 2k a good description for 2560x1440.
@@killerfugu2659 oh ok thx you, now I know
Looking back
This was awful advice to save my money
I don't have a 20 series or a 30 series, and I couldn't get my hands on them (even if I wanted to)
And the 16 series is now at 400$ on average
Fuck.
Just snagged one on Offerup for $180. The guy was selling it for $120 and already had someone lined up to buy it. He just said to check back to see if it sells. I replied back that it will sell and his card is actually able to sell for $350-400. He then offered it to me for $200 since I told him it was worth more and we agreed on $180 which was more than fair. Score. TMI i know. The guy that was first in line to buy it for $120 sure wouldn't be thrilled with me. 🤣
I always misread this creator's name as Jay Z Two Cents... which sounds so much better
Me 2! I keep waiting for Beyonce to come dancing out in her leathers holding up a psu.
Can you test the streaming performance using NVENC of the RTX 2060 vs GTX 1660 TI?
That's crazy. My Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB OC is matching the 1660ti in FireStrike. 15,650.
i cant find the 8gb version cheap only the 4gb so i guess i wont get that one
@C Rizzy i found an rx 580 8gb oc for 180 dls :D used for mining for 6 months so i believe it has lot to give still
I think i should wait for the next gen of gpu's to upgrade. I currently have a 1070.
Me too man, and for 1080p it is good. I think I'll wait for the 7nm GPUs.
Habbekuk of course, i had my 780 for 4 years with no problem, its just point of graph settings
I got a gaming x. BEST COOLER EVER. Pumped overclock so high it's almost like a stock 1080. Won't be changing it soon.
I think buying rx 580 8gb is a good option
you get it for way less price and with oc you can still be on 1660 stock level + more vram and higher bandwith vram.
Ok but listen:
Oh it was a clone comment, you got bamboozled
@@Xenoray1 Orly
@@_Smoothiii not really my rx 580 gaming x 1450mhz with i7 8700k 4,9 ghz running with 350w. Normal system no oc only 300w
@@jonas6293 and considering everyone is using overkill PSU's i dont see the problem here. almost everyone is running a 650w psu nowadays, I have a 4ghz 2700 and a 2070 running on less than 400w.
Buy 1660ti rather than 1660 oc, simply because 1660ti uses an entirely different memory, it runs at 6001 mhz where 1660's gddr5 runs at 4001mhz, it will give you some benefit later on. Rtx card always not necessary, because ray tracing is optional, but you need faster memory in future. So 1660ti msrp model is the choice if you are a 1080p ultra gamer for AAA games.
Best comment I've seen after searching A LOT before buying the evga 1660 TI xc ultra
@@Ricardo-ki1qq 1660 runs everything at ultra 1080p anyway. the TI isnt worth the 40 less than a 2060 since a 2060 is future proof and >1070 levels
Mike Alpha I have a 2060 and it’s faster than a 1070ti it was a solid upgrade from 1060 6gb
Just buy a zotac 1660ti amp
@@Ricardo-ki1qq I'm also looking to buy one. So the evga xc is the best one according to you? Based on what, temperature? Price? Clock speed? There are so many versions that I am kinda lost haha
My gtx 980 reference is still good for my 1080p gaming. I’ll prob jump in with the 10th gen Intel release/Ryzen 3000 era.
only viable upgrade for 1060 6G is rtx 2060 ..nothing less, but everything more.
I have 1060 6g but I’m thinking of 1070 I don’t know what I should do?
@@arradbardi2802 dude thats a waste of money and thought. Go for Rtx 2060 , nothing less
Arrad Bardi don’t buy 2060, buy 1070Ti
Evox but the 2060 goes for less
Giorgio Tomaselli in my country 1070Ti is 290€ and 2060 is 400€
Sitting here, seven years later, still stuck with my 1060 3G, because the planned rtx 3060/rtx 3060 super upgrade is not really an option with this market.
Whatevs, I'll just hold out until october 2022, and hope things have come down by then.
6gb cards in 2019 are what 3gb cards were at the end of 2017, barely enough. I would not buy a card in 2019 with less than 8gb of VRAM.
I have a Gtx 660ti
@@ZeryArtzTM I bough a EVGA GTX 1070 FTW2 ICX card last summer for 275$ lightly used, and man, what a fantastic card this has been, I want the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX Vega 64 DirectX 12 100410NT+SR 8GB 2048-Bit HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card next. I'm about to be done with Nvidia, going back to AMD.
I think a 6gb 1060 will last you but anything lower and you will not make it to 2021
I think that's an exaggeration. The VRAM requirements certainly haven't gone up like that in just 1.5 years for the vast majority of new games. But it would certainly help to have more in the future, I suppose
@Nakatomi Plaza Agreed, resolution and how many mods your running on your game : D
I would much rather see a "1670" or "1680" and ti variants of those at this point.. Something that can beat my current 1080FE that doesn't cost 1000$... Jeez... Is that really too much to ask at this point.!?.
I think they will bring cards like this, but not now. When Navi comes out, then they will release them to compete against Navi.
Wasnt the 2070 beat the 1080 for 500$?
yea i was hoping for that too
@@baitman546 umm.. Not really at all.. Like 2-5fps.
For literally the same price I paid for my 1080 over a year ago.. And Pascal has been out for what over 3 years now and yet the price to performance hasnt gone well... Most of us are waiting for 1080Ti performance for less then 500-600$ at this point.. It would only make sense if you look at previous gens..a lot of us are in limbo waiting for a better card at a good price..
@SmashStomp Inc brother... I'm glad you said it.. Cuz I can't agree more..I was being generous to The greedy ass companies with the pricing I said previously... But.. Yes.. Hell yes I agree with you.. It's about damn time we get at least 1080Ti performance for 400-...
* looks at the price of the GTX 1660 Ti here in Brazil and sees it costs well over 2500 bucks (R$ 2500. Think of it like $ 2500, just so you know how expensive it really is), in average *
Yup. I should definitely keep my 1060 6GB for a while longer.
I think I am sticking with my 970 and 60fps 1080p monitor, which is working perfectly fine, unless nVidia messes up something with drivers again, but than I would consider AMD.
same. still with 970 and gaming like a charm. :)
yeah i'm just chilling with my 980 Classified not a care in the world
I have a strix 1060 6g, and I'm going to wait for the next step on gtx, or rtx...
I have the gtx 1060 6gb and i just beat hitman 3 on high settings with no issues.
Tbh I feel like the 1660 is like a 1060 ti
So the 1660ti is essentially a 1060ti ti
would the RTX 2060 be a GTX 1060Ti Ti Ti?
@@AlexandreBugado
Yeah, just like the 3060ti is basically a 1060 ti ti ti ti ti
EVGAs cards make it worth getting the MSRP /lowest cost model.
I can't believe how bad the benchmarks were back then... LMAO. You have to pause at every 0,5 seconds.
Currently own the 1060 6GB. I will patiently wait and see what happens at the end of the year. If I do upgrade, it will probably be to the RTX 2060.
Better wait for the new Navi Cards from AMD and watch some Benchmarks ^^.
Wait for 3000 series 🤟🏻💯
Speaking of 980s, have you seen all these 980s going up in flames as of late? This is something I've never seen from any GPU. Saw a few posts on the EVGA forum.
I have mine for about 4 years and I never add a problem
Johnny V „All these“ - about the same amount as seen with Polaris. Both not worth mentioning.
OMG, just tell me which one I should buy 🤦🏽♂️
It ain't that simple my friend
@@bobaninja7522 it is. buy the 1660
I’ll keep my 1060 6gb for 2 more years 👍👍
BluntForc3 Studios 1060 OG GANG
Maybe you can keep it until 5 more yesrs. This card still rocks at 1080p
6gb superclocked here
Oh fuck my Super Jetstream 1060 card just failed and shown artifact in the display. Gonna send it now for rma. Used that card without oc for 1.5 years now. Pretty disappointed
Republic of gamers 1060 6GB OC still rocking
I'm still wondering why they didn't place the 1660 and 1660ti with the rest of the lineup in terms of naming. Imo it should have been GTX2060 / GTX 2060ti / RTX2060 / RTX 2070 / RTX 2080. As they all use the turing architecture and the gtx versions simply have the ray tracing feature stripped away. Putting these two cards in the 11 series lineup must make them look like last generation cards for anyone not keeping up with tech.
The name we expected was 11XX for non Ray tracing cards BUT NVIDA SAYS 16 IS BETWEEN 10XX AND 20XX
Its for casuals who dont tech.
Ha. The only time I will EVER quit on Nvidia is when AMD gets their shit together with their GPU drivers. Until then I am an Nvidia guy for life.
Definitely not enough of an improvement over a 1060 6G to bother with.
those prices makes this video seem like it was recorded 3 or 4 years ago
end of 2022, sold old 1060 3G high and got used OEM 1660ti for SAME price :) now can upgrade my i5 4460 Veteran to i7 4770 , still enough for today for me
Looked for it, did we EVER get to the point of comparing the 1060 to the 1660 price/performance ?
Man, I'm torn. I am looking at the 1660, 1660ti and the 2060. Now I have the money to buy any three of them. BUT, I also want to get a CPU cooler so I can overclock my R5 2600. But I want a GPU that will last me possibly a couple years. Until I can afford to buy a whole new PC. This is my first PC and I am currently running a RX 580 4gb. So any of these will be upgrades for me. I don't know what to do! Jay, Just straight up tell me which one to get! haha
If money isn't a consideration between those three definitely get the 2060. It is the most powerful of the three and it supports RTX. Whether or not RTX becomes wildly adopted remains to be seen - consider it insurance.
Alex Moerman Yeah. That’s what I decided to get. Going to wait on the cpu cooler because the 2600 is perfectly fine at stock clock speeds for gaming. I’ll get a cooler next pay check 😂 Thanks!
@@therealmattseal Nice one man :) good luck with your build!
I’m confused... according to Jay, the 1660 competes with the gtx 1060 3gb.... but the 1660 is even better than the 1060 6gb! So, shouldn’t it compete with the 6gb instead?
There were two different 1060s the 3gb (less powerful) and the 6gb (more powerful. These line up with the next generation of cards. The 1660 being the new generations 1060 3gb equivalent and the 1660 ti being the 1060 6gb equivalent. Hope that makes sense
Old Gregg oh that makes sense thanks
The same happened with the GTX 950, as it compared to the GTX 1050Ti, because GTX 950Ti didnt exist, this type of stuff happens alot
When I first got into pc building, I got duped by the 1060 3GB. Even doing a good amount of research I was only able to determine that the difference was that frame buffer (which obviously wasn’t actually the case) because I thought “Oh I’ll only ever play at 1080p, I don’t need a 6GB card, I can save the 60 or so dollars!” And I’m still a little bitter to this day, so I’m glad to see Nvidia isn’t pulling that trash again with Turing
Austin Lewis “even doing a good amount of research” im no genius but just about everyone tries to steer people away from 3gb cards. And i know no one recommended that card.
That Guy The only people who recommended that card where fanboys.
I didn't even know a 3gb version existed until after I bought the 1060 6gb
That Guy yeah at the time no one was making videos berating the 3GB, I had to look at product pages and then look up “what does 3GB mean?” And I even found forums being like “oh yeah the performance dividend shouldn’t be huge” so I got pranked real hard. About to upgrade to a 2060 so I’m excited (I have a stable 5ghz on my i5-8600k so that will be a nice performance bump to my system)
Lost Khajiit NEWS FLASH: I never said anything about navi neither am I too excited about it.
ugh.. So that means my 1080 will be the same as a 2160 when they come out, whatever they will be called. I think they do that to embarrass you into buying the more expensive cards.
And still there will be people complaining about getting GTX 1080 performance (699$ at release) at 349$ (the half) today.
Sorry but already 2060 is on par with GTX 1080...
HOw this card costs 570 USD today is beyond me.
I'd like someone to explain to me how Nvidia GPUs all relate to each other..... I don't understand them in relation.
There are generations and different categories in each. Gens being 700s 1000s 1600s 2000s 3000s and categories being 60, 60super,60 ti, 70,70 super, 70ti, 80,80 super, 80ti, 90,90super, 90ti. Basically 700s
Rambling madness - now I am more confused than before I watched.
I would just buy a used GTX 1070 from ebay. plus you get 8gb of vram
Honestly, I don't know what you just said, literally anything is an upgrade from my 950
Oh how different things are today.
Ever since Jay switched to metal music, I look forward to looking at charts. Now if my own employer would just follow the model.....
After upgrading from a 780 to a 1080ti I'm pretty much good. I can hit 60fps 4k in any (indie) title I throw at it.
how bout games like mirror's edge catalyst and destiny 2?
Essentially, if you ALREADY have a 1060 6GB, the cost of upgrading to a 1660ti wouldn't be worth your money. Save the money toward a better card later on, or other possible components, like faster RAM.
THis card is aimed at 960 owners, you really shouldnt upgrade for every generation, id say wait a generation unless you are upgrading from a 60 to 70 series card.
TheHengeProphet im building a pc with a ryzen 2600, would you recommend a 1060 6gb or 1660 6gb?
Akuroh what price are you getting the 1060 for? If it’s not 170, get a 1660.
Whats a good budget card to upgrade from a gtx 1050 2gb? I'm just trying to play insurgency sandstorm without it stuttering lol. i don't care about graphics.
@@officialsouthsoul5223 Depending on your budget, the solid budget cards for this gen would be rx 570,580 and the 1660, depending on your budget. the rx cards are pretty power hungry, but do have great performance for the price.
I’ll stick with my Pentium 1st gen integrated graphics
1st Gen pentium didnt have integrated graphics. you're abviously lying
woosh me please
thenobslol you’d like that wouldn’t you.
@@dexis9412 Only from you. Daddy Dexie
thenobslol yeah I bet you’d like to be wooshed real *hard* right now
In the thumbnail I didn't see a single 1060.
EPIC PUPPY TECH gaara is best boy
(Edit) :there isn’t one, for some reason.
Go 1660 219$ model or go for a 2060. Everything in between is just filler and literally a waste of money. It will not matter much in daily use and "a few extra FPS" will not be visible during normal gaming since the difference isn't large enough. Even though the 1660 TI seems to be a lot better on paper, it's simply not on "a different level". It's not like the difference between the different cards in the 10XX series like the 1060 3GB and 1060 6GB - or the 1050 vs the 1050 TI where the 2 gigs of RAM on the 1050 was massively inferior to the 4GB on the 1050 TI - which made it an actual usable card where the 1050 was much less so. Nvidia might have screwed up at bit in making the 1660 and the 1660 TI a bit too similar to justify the extra cost, especially with the performance jump you get if you buy a 2060. The 2060 can run many titles at a totally different level - which means: If you can't afford a 20XX card, go for the "good enough" solution - which is the 1660 - OR - Wait ½ a year for the AMD Navi and hope that will shake up the marked - and then buy the card with more horsepower.
- Retrospective - Hope you didn't wait! hahaha ... But yes have a PC with a GTX 1660 - and whenever it's in use I forget that it's only a GTX 1660 because it still to this day does very well.
i had to pause just to comment how awesome the soundtrack is @5:00 during the benchmarks. I had to rewind 3 times because I'd bang to the metal rather than watch your results! :P
hardcore
What's the name of the track?
Yeah the benchmarks music is amazing
Yeah , that song is pretty awesome . Would really like to know the name of it. Anyone know by chance ?
Why is everyone comparing the 1660 TI to the 1060 it's more equal to that 1070
Why? Because gtx 1060 is 3 yrs old card now and we need next generation of them and gtx 1660 is an step above, the price is the same so why would you want to compere cheaper card with older more expensive one from different price segment? We should compare gtx 1070 with rtx2070.
@@variopatryk the 1660ti is equal in performance to the 1070
@@kurobushi7746 But is the gtx 1660ti successor to the gtx 1060 or gtx 1070?
If you said the 1060 or 1070 you are wrong... we got rtx 2060 and rtx 2070 i believe the gtx 1660 and gtx 1660ti should be compared to gtx 1050ti or even gtx 1050, if we are talking about generation step. If the price is similar we should expect better performance it was almost 3 years!
So we should compare 1660ti to the gtx 1060 it's the same card, marketed to the same buyers at the same price with better performance. You aren't going to change your gtx 1070 to the gtx 1660ti or none ti version but maybe someone with 2-3year old gtx 1050 will get the 1660ti as it offers a nice boost in FPS.
There’s nothing wrong with this card though it’s a perfect mid range card I have a 1660 ti and it’s pretty close to a rtx 2060
The more research I do the 1660ti seems a great card to get right now, but if I have the cash in a month or so I might go for the 8gb 2060 extreme or whatever it's called, but only time will tell, most likely the 1660ti though 😎
Halfdead Rider 1660 ti is great I’m loving it
@@HalfdeadRider Get the Super instead it's almost close to non Ti in price but close to Ti in perf.
@Ignatius David Partogi I don’t consider the 1660 a low-end card at all. I used to have a 1050ti and that was low-end.
@@tjs8617 I got a 1660 super and it's fantastic and play everything on high-ultra with very good fps with my Ryzen 5 1600. Also seemed to hit the jackpot with my cpu as the highest temp it's ever reached on OC was 53.75 degrees C on a summers day that was 41 C xD
1660 was made to compete with 1060 3gb, why was nvidia competing with themselves...
because AMD just sucks ass.
they fucked up their Radeon VII card, that by thowing all ressources on MEMORY whahaahahahah
how stupid can you get
I agree with you Jay, I just buy the entry level version of a card. If I'm gonna pony up more dough for a GPU, it's gonna be for more performance and not aesthetics. There are always exceptions, but I never had a reference card that ran too hot or was too noisy. Maybe I'm just lucky?
You cant even get a 1660 for msrp anymore. I really hate nvidia.
It’s 10:06 and I gotta be to work at 6:10, take my break at 01:06 and finally clock out at 06:01. Where do I work?
At Nvidia 😆😂😆
Michael C ayy 😂
why nvidia why
so there it is
we have preveous gen
gtx1060 as base actual by 209€ 0%
gtx 1660 +10% new at 229€
gtx1660ti +20% 279€
gtx 1070+40%/rtx 2060 299€/330€
gtx 1070ti +50% 370€
gtx1080 rtx 2070 +90% 490€
no reason to upgrade
my max invest in new gpu is 300€ and this must be at least 100%+
funny fact 500€ you payed 2017 for the gtx1080 before mining hype
Is it just me or is the prices skyrocketing? I looked up this card on newegg just to see if it's more affordable than the 1650 I'm looking at and average price I'm seeing on this card is like 800.
We're in a hardware shortage
@@realhumanbean7915 I just figured that out. I'm brand new to this hobby and want to build my first computer and then found this out
Dude i can literally get a rx 570 used for less than 100 dollars that performs just as well as these. Never buy "budget" NVIDIA cards
I got xfx rx 470 for $65
470/570 are the best deal rn
@@redzyakuza hell yeah man. Just picked one up for my dads pc. Building it for him soon.
Well this didn’t age well.
Lowest price for a 1660 in my country is about 220€. I just bought a Rx 580 for 150€, and the performance is roughly the same. Thats about 40% less, which in my opinion, is huge.
Do your homework and buy what is best for you!
I have litteraly got the gtx 1660 msi gaming x right next to me
Bro, that card is amazing! Got mine last week
I also bought my Gtx 1660 Gaming X 2 weeks ago, replacing my gtx 1050 ti. The 1660 is awesome!
Aaron Paul Sanchez what is your cpu? I’m thinking of upgrading from an rx 560 4 gb to a gtx 1660 6gb
@@user-yz4oc7nc7v Hi bro, thanks for asking I'm using a Ryzen 5 2400g, unfortunately becoz I can't seem to find a Ryzen 5 1600 or 2600 at the time I purchased my pc.
Kudos to whoever chose the music. SICK! \m/ ];-P
Of course now, the cheapest 1660 available is $250 if you can get it. And a 2060 runs $500 and more. I've got one of those cards that "should have never existed", I got a 1060 3GB. And of course the 30 series is astronomical. Nothing is available that I'm willing to pay.
I bought my 1060 3GB during the inflated prices
Got it for £200 and the 6GB were £340
My GPU still works good, wish these cards came out earlier but I don't need an upgrade
@@DefensiveLimestone ah I get that. There wasn't much choice for me at the time, and the 3GB wasn't too bad compared to the 6GB
I would love to upgrade, but for the time being my 1060 works fine on all the games I play everyday
Cookie Rager it’s that urge you get and it’s like you just get a compulsion to upgrade but then you realize you have enough power
Preferably for me when I saw this generation it was too expensive considering Last generation we got a 2060 which was equivalent to a 980 for only $250 now we’re getting the same equivalency except for 350 which is not worth it so I’ll wait another generation
I bought the Asus Dual GTX 1060 6GB for $230 last December. Loving the card.
T S I got the 1060 6gb as well around last July, thank god I got the 6gb because now if you look at recent testing the cut in VRAM is really chopping and taking a toll on the frame rate to the point that it isn’t a 1060
Purchasing options right now:
RX 570 unmatched value at 1080p;
RTX 2060 - it's unmatched value at 1440p - you get 1070ti performance and RTX cores;
RTX 2080 - if you are at 4K and have money to burn for days, you get the best card in the consumer stack.
(And before someone complains RTX 2080ti is the Titan of Turing and is not in the consumer stack with that crazy price it has.)
RTX is useless right now, especially at 2060 performance levels. The Vega 56 is better value right now.
@@hashimiyazib Vega is more expensive than 2060
@Merkur Stern Vega 56 goes for $300 now (www.amazon.com/dp/B07BRCZG3M/?tag=pcpapi-20). RTX 2060 is usually $350 ± $10. (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1456229-REG/msi_g2060v6c_geforce_rtx_2060_ventus.html). Both cards are similar in performance. If you want to get technical, UserBenchmark rates the Vega 56 a bit higher than the RTX 2060 (gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2060-6GB-vs-AMD-RX-Vega-56/4034vs3938). However, games do sometimes prefer Nvidia cards. If you really want to put those RT cores to use, get a better card such as the RTX 2070.
Edit: How the hell do you use the @ symbol?
When gaming at 4K Radeon 7 is the better graphics card . You get more use out of 16 gigs of RAM at 4K then you will with Ray tracing .
slice 1 uhhh no
So a 1060 6g should've actually been called a 1060 ti. Also I'm about to upgrade from a 2g msi 960 from 2015 to a used 6g gigabyte 1060 that costs 120 euro (There are cheaper but this one supposedly wasnt used for cryptomining and it's in good condition and is a 6 gig). Wish me luck. I wish I got a msi one since theyre sexy af but oh well. A 960 2g goes for around 50 euro here so I guess I'll try to sell it to make some money back.