An MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X Unboxing Appears on YouTube

[BiG StroOnZ]

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PC World Bulgaria has uploaded a video which showcases MSI's upcoming GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X graphics card, giving us a comprehensive look around the graphics card, its display output configuration and its power design. 

Looking at the card directly, we can clearly see that this new MSI graphics card is a Geforce GTX series part, lacking any RTX branding, confirming Nvidia's move away from the RTX brand name in their lower-end products. On the box, we can also see that RTX features such as ray tracing and DLSS are excluded, instead referencing Turing Shaders, backing up the rumours that the GTX 1660 Ti will lack both RT cores and Tensor cores. 
 

On the GPU's boxart, we can also see that MSI's Geforce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X features plenty of RGB lighting locations and utilises an 8-pin PCIe cable for power. The major difference between this cooler and its RTX 2060 counterpart is the lack of Geforce RTX branding on the side of the cooler, which instead says Geforce GTX. The Twin Frozr 7 cooler design appears to be the same as MSI's RTX 2060 Gaming X model. 

It looks like the rumors were correct about the nomenclature of this card. If this turns out to be real, I hope we can get a more thorough explanation about why this name choice was selected.

 

Source: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/msi_gtx_1660_ti_gaming_x_unboxing_appears_on_youtube/1

 

It looks like the original video was already taken down, here's a backup:

[BiG StroOnZ]

1 hour ago, campy said:

There have been weird named products before, it's not the most surprising thing.

I imagine they were thinking of the 660ti when they came up with this.

Only problem is that the 660 Ti made sense in context to the series of cards it was based off of, the (Kepler) 600 series.

 

In this instance it would make more sense either as; GTX 1160 (a successive continuation of Pascal [1000 series] naming) or GTX 2060 (because of no RTX or DLSS stuff, and the current series [Turing] naming [2000 series]).

[pizapower]

RIP AMD mid range GPUs

[justpoet]

1 hour ago, pizapower said:

RIP AMD mid range GPUs

That fully depends on price point.  While I like AMD, I hope this has a low enough price point to do that.  It would force Navi based cards to be priced more aggressively when they come out too, making graphics cards finally come back down to semi-sane price points again.

[Guest]

I can't wait to not buy this and just look at reviews online

[mxk]

I hope it doesn't cost too much.

 

EDIT: Lol the video is gone.

[Shreyas1]

Actually, I think I understand the naming scheme: when they move on to the rtx 3000 series they can introduce Gtx 2660ti! No confusion at all!

 

And I'm sure they'll probably introduce a rtx 2060ti for the time being

[Princess Luna]

Still waiting for the TITAN TITAN for double Titaness.

[Taf the Ghost]

It should be 20-25% faster than the 1060 6Gb version somewhere in the 250USD range, depending on model. This should skip it ahead of the RX 590 (which never had much reason to exist anyway) by about 10% in performance while everyone waits on Navi to replace Polaris. Main selling point should be in some games that use Async it'll perform above the 1070 pretty handedly. 

 

In reality, this is actually another tier within Nvidia's product stack. The 1660 non-TI should be about 1060 6Gb performance for roughly a few bucks less, minus some media engine improvements and just the subtle tweaks with Turing.

[Taf the Ghost]

3 hours ago, Shreyas1 said:

Actually, I think I understand the naming scheme: when they move on to the rtx 3000 series they can introduce Gtx 2660ti! No confusion at all!

 

And I'm sure they'll probably introduce a rtx 2060ti for the time being

2070 Ti more than a 2060 Ti. There's not enough performance space between the 2060 and 2070. They could do one on a Cost basis, but it'd be a horrible buy for anyone. Also, the 2060 and 2070 share the same GPU die already. The 2080 has its own GPU die (TU104) without any down-binned versions. There's space for a 650USD, 2070 Ti with 2688 CUDA cores. (42 SM x 64 CUDA Cores) We'll know how yields are when it lands probably late this year.

[Giganthrax]

8 hours ago, floofer said:

I can't wait to not buy this and just look at reviews online

This. 

 

I love looking at all this new hardware, but my GTX 1070 isn't leaving my tower anytime soon. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

9 hours ago, pizapower said:

RIP AMD mid range GPUs

so AMD can concentrate on cpu and RP intel

what will nest gen be called? GTX 1760 / 2660/  1670 ? lol

[Billy Pilgrim]

19 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

what will nest gen be called? GTX 1760 / 2660/  1670 ? lol

this is far too simple