 It really does look like Nvidia cannot help themselves. So here we are hot on the heels of the Hilariously named GTX 1660 Ti and they are telling once again the same 16 from the back 60 from the front joke with the release of the non Ti version the GTX 1660 but this is Is no laughing matter because the GTX 1660 has a serious flaw that I believe AMD will be quick to exploit Let's go ahead and explore that shall we? With glass wire you can instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device Use offer code Linus and get 25% off at the link below Like last month's GTX 1660 Ti Nvidia's new tearing card doesn't have a founders edition So ours is an EVGA entry-level XC variant with this huge single fan, but triple slot cooler Don't worry though compact PC enthusiasts. They will have a dual fan dual slot variant as well But enough about EVGA. Let's talk about what Nvidia did with the GTX 1660 Sorry they did something with it, right? Yes. Yes, right But considering that we're still dealing with the same TU 116 GPU The changes from the 1660 Ti are fairly minimal We lose a few CUDA cores we gain a bit of clock speed so small stuff so far But then we actually lose Quite a bit of our memory bandwidth by stepping down to cheaper GDDR5 memory like last generation's GTX 1066 gig instead of the faster GDDR6 that's used by the 1660 Ti That's not to say they haven't made some other tweaks though So when we compare the CUDA cores and texture units We're actually looking at a pretty big boost in performance on paper despite the launch price sitting more in line with that confusingly named 3 gig variant of the 1060 But specs are only part of the equation and the extra oomph that Turing brings to the table with Simultaneous integer and flowing point compute along with its much larger cache makes for a very interesting value proposition Assuming of course that all of this holds up in the real world Now Nvidia didn't see these two reviewers directly so since we have to make a video of it We ended up a little bit late to the party and we had to forego our horizon test bench as a result With that said we're not leaving AMD out in the cold here the direct competitors to the GTX 1660 from team red are the RX 590 and RX 580 So we'll be comparing against those and the 1060 to see exactly How much more performance we've gained over the last card Nvidia launched at this price And as we have a look at our gaming results Yeah, it does indeed absolutely cream the GTX 1060 across the board with scores almost Exactly in between the 1060 6 gig and the 1660 Ti in fact We're seeing results that are similar to although in some cases a bit behind the more expensive RX 590 which will be interesting later on when we come to our value comparison For its part the RX 580 well doesn't win any races here But it puts up a good fight and its significantly lower price tag will also be interesting later on before that though productivity, and it's here that things take a bit of a Wild turn the GTX 1660 performs better on short blender renders But then gets overtaken by even the lower priced RX 580 when it comes to longer ones Then it gets mostly defeated when we look at Luxmark and as for spec view perf Well, it can't seem to make up its mind as with the 1660 Ti Team red and team green trade blows depending on each individual workload Although sometimes the performance gap can widen into a gulf such as in Katia and solidworks Now as with the Ti variant because there isn't a reference design for the 1660 cooler. There's not necessarily much point in discussing the exact numbers that we measured with this card But in a broad sense we can see that it doesn't output a ton of heat and we can see that EVGA's overbuilt cooler Does definitely perform and it's a nice to have since this card is priced the same as a reference design would be Now on to power consumption compared to the 1660 Ti power consumption at idle is down But under load is actually up and that might seem kind of unintuitive But it's actually because of the higher voltage requirements for the less efficient GDDR5 memory that powers the non Ti card So overall power consumption as measured at the PCI Express power cable is not looking too great Even higher than the GTX 1060 6 gig but bear in mind that the slot might be providing varying levels of power to these cards Frankly though power consumption isn't a huge concern to us at this TDP anyway, so it's on to what is a concern value if we look at the 1660 from purely an Upgraders point of view like if you've already got the rest of your computer Then just like its bigger brother it ends up looking pretty good However when we look at it from the perspective of someone putting together a brand new build AMD actually runs away with the show thanks to the RX 580 lower price tag and The RX 590 higher performance and this is true all the way up the budget range Where the only time the 1660 makes any sense is when compared to the previous generation? 1060 from Nvidia themselves so that is where the fatal flaw that I alluded to before comes in There's nothing actually wrong with the GTX 1660 and it's still got the usual Green Nvidia goodness that you'd expect like g-force experience if you're into that and their excellent And vang h264 video encoder. It's just that it's hard to build a strictly Gaming performance argument for choosing this over a competing option from team red in fact The 1660 has even more narrow of a value proposition Than the TI and that's a bad thing when you consider that the 1660 Ti's value prop against the RTX 2060 was already pretty low again unless you're upgrading So it really feels like the GTX 1660 is specifically targeted towards anyone who would have already been interested in the GTX 1060 which I guess if you're only competing against yourself then That's fair, but to be a clear choice over AMD remember This is a GTX not an RTX so there's no raytracing sort of like extra X-factor value to it So we think the extra money spent on this fancy three slot cooler might have been better utilized to hit a more aggressive price point At 209 it would be looking better and at 199 it'd be really competitive but at this price Especially the OC versions blah the RX 500 series is simply eating Nvidia's lunch in this price bracket Mass drop is featuring the Mass Drop X Hi-Fi man HE4XX planar magnetic headphones so Hi-Fi man if you haven't heard of them before was established back in 2007 and made a name for themselves when it came to affordable great sounding planar magnetic headphones These ones feature an open back design with a super comfortable build with extra soft cushioning in the ear pads and this like soft Luxurious velour and you can check them out at the link below to join the drop of course mattress drop has all kinds of stuff So thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that button But if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff We featured at the link in the video description Also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum Which you should definitely join?