Nvidia's Turing-based GTX 1660 Ti could hit store shelves on February 15 for $279

[CybaGirl]

Don't know about anyone else?

But until AMD brings down the power consumption of their cards I will continue to buy Nvidia products. In the past I have always brought AMD but the power consumption of the Nvidia cards is far less than that of AMD and living in a country with one of the world's most expensive electricity prices I have to consider this when buying new hardware these days.

 

[Sausagemeat]

You are not looking at this threw an end-user/gamer perspective my friend.

But it is great to hear you say that RTX doesn't matter just yet/right now. So now we can all stop listening to you cheerleading-on, about it. Subsequently, if RTX doesn't matter now, and when raytracing finally does arrive, won't more powerful GPUs be needed to push it..? Making you a complete hypocrite?


Why buy a GTX2060 when you can get a used GTX1080 for $250 bucks..? So what is the point of a $250 GTX 1660 then..?

Nobody is going to buy new nvidia products that don't offer more performance (for the same price) as last generation. They will just buy more powerful last generation cards used, or wait for the $250 Navi offering RTX2070 levels at GTX1660 prices. (4 months is not that long to wait.)

Specially with a new FreeSync2 144Hz monitor.

Ray tracing does definitely matter. It’s going to be a common standard in the future and personally I think it’s rather impressive. I understand that as someone who definitely has a bias towards AMD you don’t want to hear anything about it, it’s a feature the cards made by the manufacturer you love doesn’t have. I do hope and believe AMD will eventually catch up to Nvidia and develop parts that can do ray tracing though. Today, there aren’t many games that support it, so today it’s good that there are budget options coming that allows users to save a bit of cash and not have it. I must say I’m surprised that these parts are coming from Nvidia.

I’ve just checked and a used 1080 costs more than $250, the cheapest I found was a by it now founders edition at $300. There were some at $250 but the sellers reserve had not been met yet. Still used last Gen cards are always cheaper, they aren’t always necessarily better buys. Interestingly, the best “new” card AMD will sell you at that price range is an RX590 which is hopeless by comparison.

New Nvidia cards do offer more performance for the money than the previous gen, a new 2070 is cheaper than a new 1080 and it performs slightly better and can also ray trace. Sure you can buy second hand and save money but this has always been the case, I remember seeing dirt cheap HD 7970s going second hand for cheaper than a 280X when the 280X was released all the way back in 2013 and that’s the same card. People buy new so they have longer driver support, more power efficiency (not always) and a warranty. Oh and also because new parts are trusted more than second hand parts.

May I also remind you that if two cards perform the same but one ray traces and the other doesnt then the card with ray tracing is the better card. Ray tracing is running on RTX cards in the small amount of games it’s supported in, and the experience isn’t as bad as the haters are trying to make out. In fact, it’s very impressive where it works. Oh and you don’t need a more powerful GPU, an RTX 2080 will ray trace at 60hz, 1440p yet the equivalently priced Radeon 7 will not.

 

[m3tavision]

Ray tracing does definitely matter. It’s going to be a common standard in the future and personally I think it’s rather impressive. I understand that as someone who definitely has a bias towards AMD you don’t want to hear anything about it, it’s a feature the cards made by the manufacturer you love doesn’t have. I do hope and believe AMD will eventually catch up to Nvidia and develop parts that can do ray tracing though. Today, there aren’t many games that support it, so today it’s good that there are budget options coming that allows users to save a bit of cash and not have it. I must say I’m surprised that these parts are coming from Nvidia.

I’ve just checked and a used 1080 costs more than $250, the cheapest I found was a by it now founders edition at $300. There were some at $250 but the sellers reserve had not been met yet. Still used last Gen cards are always cheaper, they aren’t always necessarily better buys. Interestingly, the best “new” card AMD will sell you at that price range is an RX590 which is hopeless by comparison.

New Nvidia cards do offer more performance for the money than the previous gen, a new 2070 is cheaper than a new 1080 and it performs slightly better and can also ray trace. Sure you can buy second hand and save money but this has always been the case, I remember seeing dirt cheap HD 7970s going second hand for cheaper than a 280X when the 280X was released all the way back in 2013 and that’s the same card. People buy new so they have longer driver support, more power efficiency (not always) and a warranty. Oh and also because new parts are trusted more than second hand parts.

May I also remind you that if two cards perform the same but one ray traces and the other doesnt then the card with ray tracing is the better card. Ray tracing is running on RTX cards in the small amount of games it’s supported in, and the experience isn’t as bad as the haters are trying to make out. In fact, it’s very impressive where it works. Oh and you don’t need a more powerful GPU, an RTX 2080 will ray trace at 60hz, 1440p yet the equivalently priced Radeon 7 will not.

You post is 100% fabricated!

I own an RTX2080 for starters and as a gamer and as a prosumer, I can tell you that your posts are not fooling anyone.


I am not even sure if you even understand what you are babbling on about, or if you know what ray tracing really/actually is. I've linked you to Microsoft's DXR several times, yet you are still pretending like you do not understand (feign ignorance of) that Ray tracing has nothing to do with Nvidia, but DirectX 12 and async compute.

$699 for either a RTX2080 or a Radeon 7.…
For a gamer, it is going to come down to which one offers the best fidelity and the best frame times.


ed: a quick FYI bro: Gamers doesn't use 60Hz.. <--- that is bare minimum.