I chose GTX 1660 TI Strix OC for 2560x1080 gaming,good choice?

[frozensun]

So I got this model at discount for 330 euros,now it's 350 euros.

I waited for a while but the price didn't drop so I coudn't wait no more.

I play games at 21:9, 2560x1080 at 60 Hz rr, and would like to get around 60 fps in recent games and future games that will come at high,possible ultra details.

So guys please tell me I chose the good card.

I know I should go for RX 5700 but currently it's well over 400 euros and above.

And this is my first NVidia Card,so I didn't want AMD anymore.

[2SidedPolygon]

It was a good choice, judging by the pricing in your area

[Princess Luna]

I have no idea what is the reality on your market other that GPUs are really expensive if a 1660 Ti is 330 euros and 5700's are well above 400 euros.

 

The 1660 Ti won't do ultra settings on every game at 2560x1080p but it will be still a good enough card.

[frozensun]

4 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

I have no idea what is the reality on your market other that GPUs are really expensive if a 1660 Ti is 330 euros and 5700's are well above 400 euros.

 

The 1660 Ti won't do ultra settings on every game at 2560x1080p but it will be still a good enough card.

I just need ultra at around 60 fps,I haven't noticed any game that doesn't do ultra at around 60 fps with this card except Exodus.
I know I did a lot of research about this model,and I know it's not for 1440p gaming but I'm at 2560x1080.

[Zando_]

1660 Ti should slap 1080p ultrawide at 60fps pretty easily. It's about 1070 level performance IIRC, only games it won't push 60 in will be unoptimized ones, or the few that are really, really dang hard on the graphics side. 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, frozensun said:

I just need ultra at around 60 fps,I haven't noticed any game that doesn't do ultra at around 60 fps with this card except Exodus.

What are you asking then? you already own it, you already played with it and testified how it performs.

 

What is the purpose of this thread?

[frozensun]

this is the cheapest 5700 and it's 405 euros:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-R57GAMING-OC-8GD#kf

[frozensun]

Just now, Princess Luna said:

What are you asking then? you already own it, you already played with it and testified how it performs.

 

What is the purpose of this thread?

Nope I haven't even opened the box...I did the research about 1660 Ti and I asked the question if I did a good choice.

Besides you tell me which game this card can't do ultra at around 60 fps?

[Jurrunio]

Imo premium cards like the Strix have no place in budget friendly GPUs like the 1660ti. I only consider them on GPUs that will wreck my wallet regardless of model such as the 2080Ti.

[frozensun]

17 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Imo premium cards like the Strix have no place in budget friendly GPUs like the 1660ti. I only consider them on GPUs that will wreck my wallet regardless of model such as the 2080Ti.

This model has the reason for high price.OC'ed it goes over 2GHz with not even high GPU temp...

Asus did a great job on cooling on this model...

[Envit0]

1 hour ago, frozensun said:

This model has the reason for high price.OC'ed it goes over 2GHz with not even high GPU temp...

Asus did a great job on cooling on this model...

Well you are disagreeing and debating people's answers to your question, so why then even raise a question in the first place if you already have your own answer?

[frozensun]

I do agree Asus cards are the most expensive and don't offer the most,but don't tell me this model is budget card,maybe for you in USA,because average income here is 400 euros,so not anyone can afford even midrange card like this.

But when someone gives an opinion I really want argument about it.

With Jurrunio I do agree generally about pricing with Asus cards,but Asus did a great job on 1660 Ti...

I just wanted to know if this card is good choice for mentioned rez and fps.

[Zando_]

Just now, frozensun said:

I do agree Asus cards are the most expensive and don't offer the most,but don't tell me this model is budget card,maybe for you in USA,because average income here is 400 euros,so not anyone can afford even midrange card like this.

But when someone gives an opinion I really want argument about it.

With Jurrunio I do agree generally about pricing with Asus cards,but Asus did a great job on 1660 Ti...

I just wanted to know if this card is good choice for mentioned rez and fps.

It'll run that easily, the 1660 Ti punches damn hard for something so tiny and light on power (it'll sip up to 130W if you slap it under torture tests at the highest power target possible). They're easy to cool too, my EVGA XC Ultra sits at 45-48C or so with 75% fan speed under 24/7 F@H load, runs around 2055-2085Mhz on the core (I have a manual OC of +70-100 most of the time on the core and +300 on the RAM just because). I'd assume the STRIX is similar, temps shouldn't be an issue at all. Will be interesting to see what the max stable OC is you can get for gaming, depends on bin but you should be able to get 2050-2100Mhz on the core and a beefy OC on the VRAM. 

[frozensun]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

It'll run that easily, the 1660 Ti punches damn hard for something so tiny and light on power (it'll sip up to 130W if you slap it under torture tests at the highest power target possible). They're easy to cool too, my EVGA XC Ultra sits at 45-48C or so with 75% fan speed under 24/7 F@H load, runs around 2055-2085Mhz on the core (I have a manual OC of +70-100 most of the time on the core and +300 on the RAM just because). I'd assume the STRIX is similar, temps shouldn't be an issue at all. Will be interesting to see what the max stable OC is you can get for gaming, depends on bin but you should be able to get 2050-2100Mhz on the core and a beefy OC on the VRAM. 

Thx bro,I couldn't find teardown of this model,I wanted to find out if the memory and mosfets are cooled down.
How much more fps would I get with OC?

I mean I really don't need to OC it because the games I play run around 60 even with my old R9 390,only problem is Metro and I think Shadow of War and Shadow of Tomb Raider could lower the fps on this model to 60 at ULTRA.I just assume that.

[c00face]

4 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Thx bro,I couldn't find teardown of this model,I wanted to find out if the memory and mosfets are cooled down.
How much more fps would I get with OC?

I mean I really don't need to OC it because the games I play run around 60 even with my old R9 390,only problem is Metro and I think Shadow of War and Shadow of Tomb Raider could lower the fps on this model to 60 at ULTRA.I just assume that.

1660 TI Asus Strix can run 1440P @144hz at Ultra for most games. If you're wanting only 1080P, yes, the 1660 ti will easily handle those resolutions and give great FPS.

[Zando_]

5 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Thx bro,I couldn't find teardown of this model,I wanted to find out if the memory and mosfets are cooled down.
How much more fps would I get with OC?

I mean I really don't need to OC it because the games I play run around 60 even with my old R9 390,only problem is Metro and I think Shadow of War and Shadow of Tomb Raider could lower the fps on this model to 60 at ULTRA.I just assume that.

uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggh I haven't actually benched my 1660 Ti in games OCed vs not, lol. I think Shadow of War would be the only one that'd bully the card, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a beefy game graphics wise, but it's easy to tweak the settings and it's pretty well optimized. I'd offer to run benches (I do have Shadow of the Tomb Raider), but my 1660 Ti is in my folding rig and it's only matched with a 1.7Ghz Xeon that would massively bottleneck it in games. 

[frozensun]

I watched the performance in latest games at 1440p and 1080p but I'm at 2560x1080,so I don't know how much performance decrease in % or FPS can I expect compared to 1440p, at those testing guys did at 2560x1440 with this card.

I still didn't open the card and install it that is why I ask here

[frozensun]

Oooh I found out this:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/21-9-vs-16-9-fps-difference.2889532/

Is this true?

[frozensun]

16 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggh I haven't actually benched my 1660 Ti in games OCed vs not, lol. I think Shadow of War would be the only one that'd bully the card, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a beefy game graphics wise, but it's easy to tweak the settings and it's pretty well optimized. I'd offer to run benches (I do have Shadow of the Tomb Raider), but my 1660 Ti is in my folding rig and it's only matched with a 1.7Ghz Xeon that would massively bottleneck it in games. 

Lol when you mentioned Xeon I'm curious if I can run recent games with my Xeon 2640 V3,which is old CPU...

[Zando_]

Just now, frozensun said:

Lol when you mentioned Xeon I'm curious if I can run recent games with my Xeon 2640 V3,which is old CPU...

Probably. It's not the best but it has a respectable boost and is 8c/16t, should do decently. Could look into turbo-locking too (there's a way to lock most of these CPUs to the max turbo IIRC, which for yours is 3.4Ghz). What are the rest of your specs? Most of the 16xx v3 Xeons can OC on X99, and the 5960X is an option as well (I just got one). 5820K is an excellent budget CPU, but it does cut your PCIe lanes down to 24, you need a 5930K or higher for the full 40. 

[frozensun]

I haven't build that PC yet,I'm on 6700K.

So playing at 2560x1080 gives 30 % less FPS compared to 1920x1080?

What you think about that?

Hmm the more I think the more sad I feel because I don't think this card would be good for like 2 years ahead,but who knows,maybe in 2 years I'll need to change CPU too...

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, frozensun said:

This model has the reason for high price.OC'ed it goes over 2GHz with not even high GPU temp...

Asus did a great job on cooling on this model...

Good cooling and high OC potential (as long as the silicon doesn't suck, these cards aren't binned) yes, but even the worst 2060 is faster at stock than a max OC 1660ti. This argument only stops on the 2070S, because premium coolers on that can be found among the cheaper bunch of custom models, and the 2080 isnt that far off in performance.

[frozensun]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Good cooling and high OC potential (as long as the silicon doesn't suck, these cards aren't binned) yes, but even the worst 2060 is faster at stock than a max OC 1660ti. This argument only stops on the 2070S, because premium coolers on that can be found among the cheaper bunch of custom models, and the 2080 isnt that far off in performance.

I know about that I had a dilema to buy worst RTX 2060 or best 1660 Ti,but the worst RTX 2060 (the cheapest one) is
https://iponcomp.hr/shop/termek/gigabyte-gv-n2060oc-6gd-geforce-rtx-2060-6gb-gddr6-oc-pcie/1706926

and to calculate it's 370 euros,which is around 50 euros more then the card I bought,so is 50 euros worth extra few FPS for 60 Hz monitor?

I disagree.

[frozensun]

13 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Good cooling and high OC potential (as long as the silicon doesn't suck, these cards aren't binned) yes, but even the worst 2060 is faster at stock than a max OC 1660ti. This argument only stops on the 2070S, because premium coolers on that can be found among the cheaper bunch of custom models, and the 2080 isnt that far off in performance.

I'll demand you,from what I can see both cards ran well over 60 fps,and to me it's not important that 2060 runs around 10 fps more because I'm limited with 60 Hz monitor.I hope you agree on that one:

 

[Jurrunio]

4 minutes ago, frozensun said:

extra few FPS

it's definitely not just a few frames

Gaming X, definitely premium

Windforce, definitely not