The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Sheds RTX for the Mainstream Market
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on February 22, 2019 9:00 AM ESTMiddle-earth: Shadow of War (DX11)
Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.
Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of an engine that may not be bleeding edge. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data.
Shadow of War is known to be a bit of a video memory hog, to which the GTX 960 acquiesces. Like Final Fantasy XV, the GTX 1660 Ti again finds itself bringing triple the performance. The GTX 1660 Ti opens a healthy lead here over the GTX 1060 6GB; if framebuffer is indeed a significant factor, it's important to note that the GTX 1660 Ti brings substantially more memory bandwidth to the table.
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eva02langley - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
At 280$ for a Vega 56 with 3 games, it is brainless and one of the best value as of late. Can't wait for Navi to disrupt even more this overdue stagnant market.CiccioB - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Yes, it will be a new black hole in AMD quarters if the production cost/performance is the same as the old GCN line...You see, selling as HBM monster like Vega for that price simply means that the project is a compete flop (as it was Fiji) and nvidia can continue selling its mainstream GPU at the price they want despite the not so good market period.
eva02langley - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Final Fantasy XV is another game gimping AMD due to gameworks implementation.eddman - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
They disable those before benchmarking. From the article: "For our testing, we enable or adjust settings to the highest except for NVIDIA-specific features"CiccioB - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
All games gimp nvidia s their engine is written for the consoles that mount obsolete AMD HW.Oxford Guy - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
It's hardly difficult to add in a bit of special slowdown sauce for the "PC" versions.Comagnum - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
This is such a joke. Vega 56 is now the same price and out performs this terrible product, and the 1070 (AIB versions) performs similarly enough that the 1660ti has no real place in the market right now. Nvidia is a greedy terrible company. What a joke.Falcon216 - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
I followed your advice and bought a Vega56 instead of a 1660Ti and now my power supply has been making those weird noises animals make wen they're suffering and need help what do I do?Cooe - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Fanboy nonsense alert!!! Unless you bought your power supply at a Chinese flea market, ignore this dude.(Granted there are totally cases where you'd want something like a 1660Ti over a V56 for efficiency reasons [say ultra SFF], but this guy's spitting nonsense)
Falcon216 - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
My point========
Your Head
The V56 uses ~200w nominally depending on your choice of settings, in the detailed Tom's review it goes as low as 160w at the most minimum performance level and as high as 235w depending on the choice of power BIOS. The 1660Ti is then shown to use ~125w in BF1 and (assuming Tom's tested the V56 performance on stock settings) Anand's BF1 test shows a 9FPS lead (11%) over the 1660Ti. I'll trade that 11% performance for 40% less (absolute scale) power usage any day - My PSU ain't getting any younger and "lol just buy another one" is dumb advice dumb people make.
Happy now?