GTX 1660 Ti: Can be 20% faster than GTX 1060

Ashes of Singularity’s results look impressive.

Rumors have recently spread that Nvidia is going to release a new graphics card – the GTX 1660 Ti, which is a Turing GPU without ray tracing (RTX) technology from Nvidia’s latest graphics cards, and now a new benchmark leak is offering the first glimpses of its power.

The current leak has been dug up from the Ashes of Singularity database, we see the results of the GTX 1660 Ti, which scored 7400 points in 1080p (Quality: High), TUM_APISAK became the digital archaeologist (data from Videocardz).

AOTS — GTX 1660 Ti High (1080p) Score 7400 ( Laptop )
GTX 1060 High (1080p) Score 6200 ( Laptop ) pic.twitter.com/wdQ1lgFJ1C

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By comparison, the GTX 1060 scored 6,200 points, making the upcoming GTX 1660 Ti nearly 20% faster and therefore identical to the GTX 1070 – assuming the card actually exists, of course.

Naturally, how impressive the result will be depends on how expensive the new video card will cost, so we cannot fully assess the situation until we know the prices. The ideal theory seems to split the new graphics card between the GTX 1060 and the new RTX 2060.

Nvidia will reportedly show the GTX 1660 Ti – and rumored GTX 1660 – in February.

We just have to sit back and wait, although the naming scheme for the new graphics cards looks rather odd (Nvidia can be expected to stick to the current naming convention and name the newcomers 1160 and 1160 Ti).

The theory is that the GTX 1660 Ti will run with a TU116 GPU capable of offering 1536 CUDA cores backed by 6GB of GDDR6 video memory. So the offering looks powerful enough for those who aren’t particularly excited about ray tracing and don’t want to fork out for the dubious pleasure of seeing realistic light with RTX.

Either way, no matter how accurate the pricing and performance speculations are, Nvidia will certainly be looking to introduce some form of wallet-friendly GPU for the current generation.

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