It appears that NVIDIA will be launching the first GPU in its NVIDIA GeForce GTX Turing series next month. According to HardOCP, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660Ti is real, will launch on February 15th and will be priced at $279.
HardOCP also claims that the next GPU in the GTX Turing series, the GeForce GTX1660, will arrive in early March 2019 for $229 and that the GeForce GTX1650 will hit stores in late March 2019 for $179.
Rumours suggest that the GeForce GTX1660Ti will feature 1536 CUDA cores with 6GB of GDDR6 while the GeForce GTX1660 will come with 1280 CUDA cores with 6GB of GDDR5 or 3GB of GDDR5. Nothing has been confirmed at this point so we strongly suggest taking these specs with a grain of salt.
AMD will launch the Radeon VII on February 7th so it will be interesting to see whether the green team will officially reveal the GTX1660Ti on Radeon VII’s launch day or not.
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And i was Expecting 1660 Ti to be price at 250$ that Nvidia ?
give some mercy towards AMD.
AMD just lost track again on GPU market, can’t have faith in them ?
They have been engaged in deceptive business practices going back to the Tesla architecture. Before that I didn’t pay attention.
“AMD will launch the Radeon VII on February 7th so it will be interesting to see whether the green team will officially reveal the GTX1660Ti on Radeon VII’s launch day or not.”
even if they did it on the same day does it matter? both were addressing different market segment.
Exactly my point.
Just bring out the 1170 and bury RTX
1070 or better performance at
$279? sounds too good to be true.
We will have to wait on reviews but it has 25% fewer cores than the 2060.
Sweet this is 6 generations ahead of the 10XX series but 4 generations behind the 20XX series. Man Nvidia really makes things simple to understand these days. That you math.
Still happily keeping my GTX 1070 Ti though.
” According to HardOCP, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660Ti is real, will launch on February 15th and will be priced at $259 “.
Kindly make the correction. That’s $279 price point.
“AMD will launch the Radeon VII on February 7th so it will be interesting to see whether the green team will officially reveal the GTX1660Ti on Radeon VII’s launch day or not. “
Actually no, the GTX 1660Ti isn’t trying to compete with that Radeon 7 video card. That’s a totally different launch. This Ti model is actually targeted towards AMD’s RX 590 more like, a move that may force AMD to lower the pricing of their RX 500 series graphics cards.
Also, the GTX 1660 should act as a literal GTX 1060 successor. And, the GTX 1650 = GTX “1050 Ti” performance level.
“GTX 1660 should act as a literal GTX 1060 successor”
Yep, that’s pretty much my interpretation of it too, i.e. it being a modest upgrade over GTX 1060 which itself was a (very) modest upgrade over GTX 980.
Imagine then the upgrade over my 970. Will look for further benchs on the card, but as it seems interesting to say the least.
Definitely interesting. For PC gamers not interested in gaming at high resolutions but who, instead, are looking for good performance at a nice price then it could well be the Nvidia card for them.
As to your GTX 970, then that card is great for overclocking to the extent it could pretty much equal GTX 980 at stock clocks. VRAM limitations aside, an overclocked GTX 970 should be good for 1080p gaming at a combination of ‘high’ and ‘ultra’ settings for some time yet.
Just out of curiosity, which Video card are you currently rocking on your RIG ? Mine is an RX 480, 4GB variant.
GTX 980 (8GB).
By any chance, is that a Notebook ? I presume so.
Yep. Nvidia used very selectively binned GPU chips for said variant of GTX 980, i.e. binned for operating temps as opposed to overclocking potential. It’s a full fat GTX 980, not a gimped ‘M’ variant, in a gaming laptop. Giving it 8GB of VRAM was a smart move in light of the how many games at 1080p struggle with 4GB VRAM when using highest resolution textures settings.
Said gaming laptop features a desktop 6700K and 75Hz G-Sync panel. I also use my Oculus Rift with it which is pretty cool.
Indeed. Yeah, I know about that 8GB variant card. Glad to know you are rocking a decent Laptop.
This is something I’d actually call decent laptop with little hesitation.
Thanks. I’ve seen Pascal and now Turing but honestly don’t yet feel the need to upgrade when 99% of games I play all run great at high and ultra settings on my current PC. Its G-Sync panel takes care of any occasional frame-rate dips and ‘esports/competitive gaming’ (where ultra-high fps is beneficial) isn’t my cup of tea anyway.
I can easily hook it up to my living room TV via HDMI for when big-screen gaming is preferred. It runs damned quick in Windows thanks to it featuring 2x NVMe M.2 SSDs in RAID 0 for its OS drive plus having an additional 1TB SSD and 2TB HDD for extra storage.
Upgrading its GPU to GTX 1080 would be possible due to there being a MXM version of that available but I’m not convinced it’d be worth the expense when the performance gains for 1080p gaming aren’t all that spectacular. RTX 2080 is coming to laptops too but, from what I’ve seen thus far, it’s not clear as to whether any of its numerous SKUs use MXM, i.e. the one variant I’ve seen in a YouTube video showed that it uses something else.
Nice. Also, as per some early rumors, I think RTX MXM mobility cards for graphics are coming to Laptops, featuring a hefty cooling system, and lots of connectivity options as well.
A specific laptop Model dubbed as “Xijie Lion” was leaked by a manufacturer who goes by the name of CJSCOPE.
Check the following pics, some specs for these cards have also been listed. Just for reference.
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92658462d300d474ed87257f700c67b5817b4c01e1d388050ddae47af613d05c.png
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Good find. Very nice indeed.
I occasionally look on sites such as Scan 3XS so to give me a rough idea of how much it’d cost to get myself a new desktop PC by using their well thought out configurator. A desktop gaming PC of the spec’ I’d go for comes to £3143. Plus I’d need to buy a monitor, probably an ASUS PG348Q for a further £885, and a decent gaming keyboard by Corsair for another £105. Basically over £4000 for a new setup!
So when I consider all of that expense it just doesn’t seem justifiable when I’m perfectly happy with what I already have. Obviously I could choose a far cheaper desktop gaming PC but if I’m going to get one then I’d want a spec’ I’m happy with.
An update….Just saw this news article, so I thought of sharing this with you as well.
PC Specialist reveals Nine New Nvidia RTX Powered Notebooks!
PC Specialist is the latest manufacturer to jump on the mobile RTX train, announcing nine new RTX-powered gaming notebooks, offering graphics cards which range from Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 2060 to the mighty Geforce RTX 2080. Nvidia’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti isn’t receiving a mobile release.
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/systems/pc_specialist_reveals_nine_new_nvidia_rtx_powered_notebooks/1
Thanks for the update.
So it’ll be interesting to find out,
– if RTX 2080 in MXM form factor is made available to buy and, if so, how eye-watering its price will be
– what its temps are like relative to what I currently have, i.e. if the cooling hardware in my laptop is sufficient
– if my laptop’s current stock BIOS would recognise it
– if its the full fat RTX 2080 as opposed to a Max-Q variant (I assume both options will be available)
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Check out this beast! If I was buying a new gaming laptop today then this would be it.
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=nX0lTzn1fqo
Thanks for sharing this ! That’s a killer beast of a laptop, having full desktop power. No doubts.
But it’s going to be pain to carry this huge and Bulky Laptop while traveling though. Not to mention the weight of the power brick as well.
Nonetheless, the laptop really packs some punch. Kinda expensive though, IMO. But it’s good to see how TECH advances so fast these days. Cheers.
You’re welcome. Yep, a beastly single GPU gaming laptop when specced as reviewed and will likely remain so for quite some time yet. Truly awesome. Even the temps are damned good for an ultra high-end gaming laptop albeit I wouldn’t want to be overly adventurous with overclocking the CPU.
Yes, it’s definitely more ‘portable PC’ than ‘laptop’ unless you have muscles like Arnie did, haha. Something one would pack in luggage for a stay away from home as opposed to popping in a backpack to use in a cafe or on the train, etc.
Expensive by conventional PC standards but not so much by gaming notebook standards given its extreme high spec. I went to the pcspecialist configurator whereby the spec I’d go for (same as review SKU but with more RAM and storage capacity including 2x1TB Samsung NVMe M.2 SSDs in RAID 0, 1TB Samsung SSD, 2TB HDD plus 32GB Intel Optane) and it came to a little over £2900. Several hundred Pounds could be saved with choosing an i7 8700K, less RAM and a less premium storage setup whereby it’d still be a killer gaming PC.
If I were to nitpick then perhaps my only gripe is the limited choice of display panels. It’s great to have a 144Hz 1080p G-Sync panel and 4K 60Hz G-Sync panel to choose from but a third option of a 1440p minimum 75Hz panel (presuming they exist) would have been even better.
RX 590’s some not all models have been $259 for a few weeks now. But Nvidia making AMD lower prices is kinda funny actually.
It happen from time to time. When nvidia first launch 1050ti they set the MSRP to be the same as AMD RX460 despite being 20% faster. Amd quickly drop RX460 price down to 110 and 470 down to 170 as a response. Also back in 2015 the fury series was supposed to compete head to head with nvidia titan in both pricing and performance (hence the fury was not part of R9 series) but they got ninja’d by 980ti forcing AMD to price the fury x at the same price as 980ti.
In case anyone is thinking that this will be a version of the 2060 only lacking RT and Tensor cores it’s not. The 1660 has 1536 CUDA cores and the 2060 has 1920 CUDA cores.
Yup.