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  • flyingpants265 - Monday, November 4, 2019 - link

    It's ridiculous because I've been hearing about 4k for so long, and most of us are STILL gaming at 1080p. A 1080p card still costs $229 when most of us have them already. I am not willing to sink that amount of money into something that is already obsolete.

    RX570, RX580, and GTX1060 are cheap and plentiful on the used market for $65-120.
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    "Truthfully, I’m not even sure NVIDIA’s GPU binning operations changed for this product, or if they just had partners slap TU116-300 GPUs on a PCB wired for GDDR6."

    I'd assume a bit of tweaking around the edges because of the different memory controllers. Base 1660's can use a chip with a dud GDDR6 controller, 1660S needs that but can tolerate a dud GDDR5 one.
  • AshlayW - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    I'm fairly certain the memory controller supports both GDDR6 and GDDR5 concurrently
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    Different IO pinouts seems to require at least some parts to be different.
  • DominionSeraph - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    >Instead, this is a pure virtual launch, with all of the cards on the market being partner designs.

    Anandtech: where a hard launch is called a paper launch because the chip manufacturer only handed out a paper saying it was now ok to pair the TU116-300 that has been selling for months with GDDR6 instead of making a reference board which nobody needed.
  • Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    To be sure, virtual does not mean paper in this context. It's actually NVIDIA's official term for a video card launch where they don't make any retail cards of their own. It's not derogatory in any way.
  • yeeeeman - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    The title of this article should be "Nvidia preparing for Radeon RX5500".
  • Xeres14 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    Not bad. Good for a specific budget but it seems the extra $ for the 2060 is worth it.
  • Showtime - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    If you're talking bang for the buck, the 2060 is bad. Bang for buck cards would probably be RX570/580 on sale regularly, this new card, then AMD 5700, then 5700x, then the $500 2070 super. The rest of the lineup is terrible performance for the dollar. Used cards are relative bargains. 8GB AMD RX cards are under $100, and used 10 series cards finally dropping again. $400 1080 ti's, and sub $300 1080/1070 ti's are tough to beat.
  • Shlong - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - link

    I replaced a GTX 960 4GB in one of my old systems (6 core 4930k @ 4.5) with a $210 1070 TI 8GB from ebay and my old laptop with an Acer Predator Helios 300 (6 core 9750H paired with 1660Ti 6GB) which I picked up for under $1000 during the Prime deal. What a night and day difference!

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