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gigabyte GTX 1660 ti gaming oc

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gigabyte RTX 2060 gaming oc pro

I saw that they were relatively the same in terms of power, and i have the i5 3550 to choke them with a bottleneck soooo i don't really know what to buy

the RTX 2060 is 477$

the GTX 1660 TI is 400$

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The RTX 2060 is about 15% faster, and in addition has support for RTX. In terms of value for money, they're pretty comparable there. Maybe with your older CPU the cheaper 1660 Ti is a slightly better choice. Depends how much you'd like to run RTX stuff though.

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The 2060 will be around 10-20% faster in pretty much all game compared to the 1660 Ti, but I'm not sure if it's really the best value, unless you can find one for that much cheaper than a 2060 Super, or an RX 5700.

 

Also, what is your current GPU? If it's not really too low-end, maybe it'd be worth more to upgrade your CPU, since your i5-3550 will bottleneck pretty much any GPU past a GTX 1060, most games launching nowadays requiring at least 6 cores to run properly, or you'll notice some pretty bad frametimes and stuttering (I learnt this the hard way haha).

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2 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

The 2060 will be around 10-20% faster in pretty much all game compared to the 1660 Ti, but I'm not sure if it's really the best value, unless you can find one for that much cheaper than a 2060 Super, or an RX 5700.

 

Also, what is your current GPU? If it's not really too low-end, maybe it'd be worth more to upgrade your CPU, since your i5-3550 will bottleneck pretty much any GPU past a GTX 1060, most games launching nowadays requiring at least 6 cores to run properly, or you'll notice some pretty bad frametimes and stuttering (I learnt this the hard way haha).

i have to upgrade my gpu because i have now the gtx 650 and i saw that its too weak for my cpu so even now i have a bottleneck i guess.

im looking to upgrade just the gpu because if i want to upgrade my cpu i have to get a new set or ram and a new motherboard and i'm not planning on upgrading my whole pc in the close future so i just need a nice gpu that is not ridiculously expensive but will get the job done like the rtx 2060 or the gtx 1660 ti

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

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2060 imo, it will stay relevant for longer. Besides, as much as we rip on it having too few Tensor cores for RTX features, such a heavily CPU bottlenecked system is the best place to run RTX effects.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

2060 imo, it will stay relevant for longer. Besides, as much as we rip on it having too few Tensor cores for RTX features, such a heavily CPU bottlenecked system is the best place to run RTX effects.

The 2060 shouldn't be considered an 'RTX card' it barely runs low settings with ray tracing

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1 minute ago, Doubledekercouch said:

The 2060 shouldn't be considered an 'RTX card' it barely runs low settings with ray tracing

it shouldn't, but when the CPU can barely pull 50fps in demanding games you might as well leave it on.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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3 minutes ago, Doubledekercouch said:

the medium of OVERCLOCKING

The BIOS, always the BIOS. Not software in the operating system.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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35 minutes ago, Doubledekercouch said:

The 2060 shouldn't be considered an 'RTX card' it barely runs low settings with ray tracing

Ya this is what I have always felt.  Even with how bad the price/performance of the 2070 was at launch, at least it could get great FPS with RTX off (1008), and still really good rates with RTX on (also 1080).  2060 isn't even a consideration for RTX IMO, it sits in a very weird place.  You get more raw performance than the 1660ti, but the RTX portion of it might as well be non existent in some games.

El Zoido:  9900k + RTX 4090 / 32 gb 3600mHz RAM / z390 Aorus Master 

 

The Box:  3900x + RTX 3080 /  32 gb 3000mHz RAM / B550 MSI mortar 

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