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 ESTFar Cry 5 (DX11)
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). This testing was done without HD Textures enabled, an option that was recently patched in.
For Far Cry 5, the lineup is straightforward: the GTX 1660 Ti is but the slightest shade faster than the GTX 1070 FE. The GTX 1660 Ti isn't fast enough to overtake the RX Vega 56 here, but it's well ahead of the RX 590.
As far as the EVGA and reference GTX 1660 Ti's compare, Far Cry 5 is not one to show granular differences, due to how the developers implemented the built-in benchmark reporting. But this does reiterate the slight degree of difference of the additional 10W power limit.
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PeachNCream - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
This article reads a little like that infamous Steve Ballmer developers thing except it's not "developers, developers, developers, etc" but "traditional, traditional, traditionally, etc." instead. Please explore alternate expressions. The word in question implies long history which is something the computing industry lacks and the even shorter time periods referenced (a GPU generation or two) most certainly lack so the overuse stands out like a sore thumb in many of Anandtech's publications.Oxford Guy - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
How about the utterly asinine use of the word "kit" to describe a set of RAM sticks that simply snap into a motherboard?The Altair 8800 was a kit. The Heathkit H8 was a kit. Two sticks of RAM that snap into a board doth not a kit maketh.
futurepastnow - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
A triple-slot card? Really, EVGA?PeachNCream - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Yup, for 120W TDP of all things. But it's in the charts as a 2.75 slot width card so EVGA is probably hoping that no one understands how expansion slots actually would not permit the remaining .25 slot width to support anything.darckhart - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
lol this was my first thought upon seeing the photo as well.GreenReaper - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
I suspect it was the cheapest way to get that level of cooling. A more compact heatsink-fan combo could have cost more.130W (which is the TDP here) is not a *trivial* amount to dissipate, and it's quite tightly packed.
Oxford Guy - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
I think all performance GPUs should be triple slot. In fact, I think the GPU form factor is ridiculously obsolete.Oxford Guy - Monday, February 25, 2019 - link
Judging by techpowerup's reviews, though, the EVGA card's cooling is inefficient.eastcoast_pete - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
@Ryan and Nate: What generation of HDMI and DP does the EVGA card have/support? Apologize if you had it listed and I missed it.Ryan Smith - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.4.