The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Stakes Its Claim at $219
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on March 14, 2019 9:01 AM ESTMiddle-earth: Shadow of War (DX11)
Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.
Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of an engine that may not be bleeding edge. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data.
The GTX 1060 3GB starts to lag behind in this game, where the GTX 1660 takes a substantial lead. In turn, the GTX 1660 is solidly above the GTX 1060 6GB, along with the RX 580.
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Cellar Door - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
At the moment this card offers better perf/$ then a RX 580 - which is impressive considering Nvidia's price antics this generation.eva02langley - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
No it is not.The RX 580 is 179$. Making it 2.304$ per frame on techspot. They screw up again with their cost analysis. Also, you have 2 AAA games with it bundle. The RX 580 is still the value king hand down.
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1811/ben...
Don't get me wrong, this card is interesting, but is it groundbreaking in anything? No... if Nvidia was offering it at 170$, then that would be disruptive.
Cellar Door - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
You are wrong, all the $179 580 cards are only 4GB. Please don't spread misinformation.Marlin1975 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
https://www.microcenter.com/product/479525/red-dra...It was $169 last week, now its $179.
8Gb RX580s go for around $170-190 right now. The RX570 is as low as $140
eva02langley - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
The only thing you had to do is look at the price list on the first page to SEE that I am right and that YOU are spreading nonsense.flyingpants265 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
There is no such thing as $/frame.ElDiomedes - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Probably only in the US, I saw Microcentre offering some RX 580 8gb at $168. The 8 GB Nitro+ is still $340 here. While the 1660 will start from $230. In the SEA region, only a few retailers in Australia have the RX 580 in the ~$200 region. So keep in mind, no one is gonna buy AMD with those prices outside of US.Qasar - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
eva02langleythe AAA games they bundle with the cards are meaningless.. if you dont play them, or want them, so that is a moot point, and may not be a factor for some...
how do they even come up with the cost per frame?? never even heard of that metric before.....
Threska - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link
Not meaningless if one can sell all three games offsetting the purchase price.PeachNCream - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Not bad. The price point is reasonable and the performance is good enough. I wish it had a lower TDP and I don't care at all for the triple slot form factor. Still, this _might_ be the GPU that lures me back to owning a desktop PC for gaming. It is still difficult to justify the costs given that PCs end up as second acts with crappy console ports and you pay more for the hardware just to get poorly optimized games a few months after everybody else has already played them.