New GT 1030 or 10 year old 660Ti?

[gzbraga]

I'm assembling a new desktop and due to the shortages I ended up buying a new GT 1030 while I can't buy a decent GPU. My very old pc from 2012 (which has been with my mom for about 4 years) has a GTX 660Ti. Which one do you guys think is going to perform better overall (mainly games but also some work), the almost 10 year old 660Ti (it's very dirty but I can clean it), or the new 1030. Thanks for the help!

 

New desktop specs:

i5-9600KF

16GB Corsair Vengeance 32000MHz

Asus Prime Z390-P

Corsair CX450-m

[svmlegacy]

660 Ti by far

[AMD A10-9600P]

Probably the 660ti, it won't be much more powerful than the GT1030 though

[Fasauceome]

I often compare the GT 1030 to the GTX 750 ti, especially because they both use PCIe slot power with no PCIe cable (save for a couple examples of beefed up 750 TIs.) The 750 TI wins soundly in every benchmark, with a comfortable lead. The 660 TI would be in a similar position, albeit with some increased power draw, though it doesn't seem to be an issue here.

 

Not to mention, the DDR4 version of the 1030 is floating around out there now, with even worse performance. The card in general is to be avoided for a gaming PC.

[WhitetailAni]

660 Ti all the way

[manikyath]

for all the crap userbenchmark gets, they at least give some ballpark figures to compare.

(as always, ignore anything beyond the average score..)

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-660-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GT-1030/2183vsm283726

 

give that 660ti a good cleaning, and it'll be miles better.

[da na]

Go for the 660TI. I recommend a 3 GB variant if you can find one, but if your reference point is a GT 1030 then a 2gb one should be fine. Just remember that driver support will be dropped for the 600 series in a few years if that matters to you. You'll still be able to use the card, but not with the newest Nvidia drivers.

[gzbraga]

thank for the help everyone. I cleaned the card real good and it's up and running better than what I expected.

 

[Fasauceome]

1 hour ago, gzbraga said:

thank for the help everyone. I cleaned the card real good and it's up and running better than what I expected.

 

It looks faster now that it's clean lol

[Bitter]

May not be a bad idea to re-paste the card too, that thermal compound is pretty old. If the thermals and fan speeds seem fine then I guess don't mess with it for now.

[gzbraga]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

May not be a bad idea to re-paste the card too, that thermal compound is pretty old. If the thermals and fan speeds seem fine then I guess don't mess with it for now.

Yeah I did that, it was pretty bad

[thekingofmonks]

On 5/10/2021 at 3:47 AM, gzbraga said:

thank for the help everyone. I cleaned the card real good and it's up and running better than what I expected.

 

This card is beautiful