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 ESTWolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Vulkan)
id Software is popularly known for a few games involving shooting stuff until it dies, just with different 'stuff' for each one: Nazis, demons, or other players while scorning the laws of physics. Wolfenstein II is the latest of the first, the sequel of a modern reboot series developed by MachineGames and built on id Tech 6. While the tone is significantly less pulpy nowadays, the game is still a frenetic FPS at heart, succeeding DOOM as a modern Vulkan flagship title and arriving as a pure Vullkan implementation rather than the originally OpenGL DOOM.
Featuring a Nazi-occupied America of 1961, Wolfenstein II is lushly designed yet not oppressively intensive on the hardware, something that goes well with its pace of action that emerge suddenly from a level design flush with alternate historical details.
The highest quality preset, "Mein leben!", was used. Wolfenstein II also features Vega-centric GPU Culling and Rapid Packed Math, as well as Radeon-centric Deferred Rendering; in accordance with the preset, neither GPU Culling nor Deferred Rendering was enabled.
As we've seen before, Turing and Vega tend to run well on Wolfenstein II. For our games, these results are actually the closest the RX 590 can get to the GTX 1660 Ti, and even here the GTX 1660 Ti is a solid 13-14% ahead. Here, the GTX 1660 Ti also pulls the biggest lead over the GTX 1060 6GB, coming in at more than 1.5X faster, but also loses to the RX Vega 56 by more than other games.
The 6GB of framebuffer doesn't seem to be holding the GTX 1660 Ti back. The GTX 960's 2GB framebuffer, on the other hand, is asphyxiating.
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rwsgaming - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Awesome review but you guys always missed the target audience. Lots of gamers are looking for the benchmarks of online games like PUBG, Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch, etc...dezonio2 - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Multiplayer only games are pretty hard to consistently benchmark and get a repeatable results.DominionSeraph - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
Anandtech is a highly technical hardware review site, not a pop culture gaming site. The benchmarks are meant to be a highly repeatable, representative sample. Online multiplayer-only games are rarely repeatable run to run due to netcode and load variations, and you can often only run on the latest patch meaning you can't make an apples to apples comparison with older tests.Cooe - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
*facepalm* You're not the target audience. AnandTech isn't a gaming website... It's literally in the name lol. (*cough* "Tech" *cough*)Korguz - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
rwsgaming" but you guys always missed the target audience. Lots of gamers are looking for the benchmarks of online games like PUBG, Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch, etc..."
none of the games they use for testing.. are ones i play.. so meh... hehehhehe
29a - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
I started reading this article until the SSD buyers guide video started taking up 1/4 of my screen space after scrolling down a bit. I'll read about the card on a site that doesn't take up so much of my screen space for something I have no interest in. This site sucks so much since Anand sold it.PeachNCream - Sunday, February 24, 2019 - link
Reading Anandtech without an ad blocker is like banging a hooker without wearing a condom.AustinPowersISU - Friday, February 22, 2019 - link
So it's a GTX 1070 with 2GB less RAM. The small difference in power consumption can be explained away by having 2 more GB of RAM.Go to eBay, buy a 1070 for $200. Smile because you have the same performance, 2GB more RAM, and $80 more in your pocket.
Oxford Guy - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
Are they really that cheap? Ebay is flooded with absurdly high prices. Every time I see a deal it's already in the sold listing section.It's very irritating to deal with Ebay because of this.
Oxford Guy - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
There are also tons of sellers who don't understand the basics of static electricity. They love to take glamour shots of cards on tables and carpets.