When Nvidia launched its new architecture Turing at the end of 2018, it was in the form of the flagship models Geforce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, which offered high performance but also came with a high price. Many were therefore waiting for cheaper models, which Nvidia launched in the following months and most recently was RTX 2060.
In addition to models in the RTX 2000 series, there have been rumors of new graphics cards in the Geforce GTX series, including one believed to go by the name GTX 1160 or GTX 1660. This is further confirmed by information to Videocardz, who spoke with one of Nvidia’s partner manufacturers and received information about the model.
Specifications: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 Ti
RTX 2070 | RTX 2060 | GTX 1660 Ti | GTX 1060 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Technical | 12 nm TSMC | 12 nm TSMC | 12 nm TSMC | 16 nm TSMC |
Circuit | TU106 | TU106 | TU116 | GP106 |
Circuit surface | 445 mm2 | 445 mm2 | ? | 200 mm2 |
Transistors | 10.6 billion | 10.6 billion | ? | 4.4 billion |
Architecture | Turing | Turing | Turing | Pascal |
CUDA cores | 2 304 st. | 1 920 st. | 1 536 st. | 1 280 st. |
Texture units | 144 st. | 120 st. | 96 | 80 st. |
Raster units | 64 st. | 48 st. | 48 st. | 48 st. |
Tensor cores | 288 st. | 240 st. | ? | – |
RT cores | 36 st. | 30 st. | – | – |
Clock frequency | 1 410 MHz | 1 365 MHz | ? | 1 506 MHz |
GPU Boost | 1 620 MHz | 1 680 MHz | ? | 1 683 MHz |
Computational power | 7 465 GFLOPS | 6 451 GFLOPS | ? | 4 372 GFLOPS |
Memory bus | 256-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit |
Memory amount | 8 GB GDDR6 | 6 GB GDDR6 | 6 GB GDDR6 | 6 GB GDDR5 |
Memory frequency | 14 000 MHz | 14 000 MHz | ? | 8 000 MHz |
Memory bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 336 GB/s | ? | 192 GB/s |
Power supply | 8-pin | 8-pin | ? | 6-pin |
SLI connection | – | – | ? | – |
TDP | 175 W | 160 W | ? | 120 W |
Rec. Award | 499 USD | 349 USD | ? | 249 USD |
The graphics card is referred to as the Geforce GTX 1660 Ti, but it is mentioned that the name may change before it hits the market. It is already known that the model is based on a new Turing circuit called TU116 and now it is revealed that it is equipped with 1,536 CUDA cores, which is slightly less than RTX 2060. Otherwise, it is a 192-bit memory bus and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory.
According to information, the model should be slightly below the Geforce RTX 2060 when it comes to price. This is partly due to the lack of support for ray tracing in real time. However, the new Turing circuit means many other improvements, including up to 50 percent better performance per CUDA core compared to Pascal thanks to the ability to execute several types of instructions in parallel.
The release date for the graphics card has not yet been determined, but Nvidia has recently said that the Geforce GTX 1060 will disappear from the market soon. This is probably why the company will launch the GTX 1660 Ti in the near future to fill that space in the lower segment.
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