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 ESTGrand Theft Auto V (DX11)
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
We've updated some of the benchmark automation and data processing steps, so results may vary at the 1080p mark compared to previous data.
Overall, NVIDIA hardware tends to perform well on GTA, and the GTX 1660 is no exception. Here, the GTX 1660 is not significantly ahead of the GTX 1060 6GB and 3GB. Nevertheless, it's well in front of the RX 590, being closer to the level of the RX Vega 56.
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Qasar - Sunday, March 17, 2019 - link
ebay is not really an answer, as some.. may not want to deal with the hassle of ebay, or even have an ebay account. and now a days, not all games can be resold. but that still doesnt add any " value " to the video card by adding specific games...romrunning - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Triple-slot coolers pretty much kill it for mini-ITX systems. Usually they only have room for double-slot at most.damianrobertjones - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Second hand 1070 all... day... long.TheCurve - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Great review guys, loved it!Tilmitt - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
If you actually want these reviews to be useful to real people making actual upgrade decisions, you need to include far more older GPUs. All the mid and high end GPUs from the 700 and 900 series at least. Preferably an awful lot more than this.Ryan Smith - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
It's always a fine balance between including older cards for context, and newer cards to showcase how it actually compares to other things you can buy (and the product it directly replaces). In this case we do have the GTX 960 and the R9 390 in these graphs; meanwhile for everything else, Bench can give you whatever comparisons you're looking for.https://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU18/2293
Tilmitt - Friday, March 15, 2019 - link
Unless I'm doing it wrong, bench is useless because the cards people want to compare aresegregated into different bench years so you can't actually compare them. How does one compare a 770 and a 1660?
Ryan Smith - Friday, March 15, 2019 - link
Fair enough point on the Kepler cards. We haven't gone in and backfilled those yet. However all of the 900 series cards are in there.Hrel - Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - link
Doesn't seem to be any way to compare the R9 280x to the 1660 either, or the GTX1070.zeroidea - Monday, March 18, 2019 - link
If all the benchmark data is in a database, might it be possible to make the charts dynamic, and have an "add card to this graph" option? Better yet, store a user's personal system (or import it from pcpartpicker) and do this automatically for logged-in users, since this is what a lot of people care about (and currently open multiple tabs to different websites in order to accomplish the same thing). That's the kind of value-add that'd get me to cough up a bit for a premium membership, if AT ever wanted to go down that route.