Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti outperforms GTX 1060 by 19% in AoTS benchmark leak

Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti has been spotted in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark. This heavily rumoured graphics card ditches the RTX branding and the 20-series naming convention of the Nvidia Turing architecture graphics cards already on the market, and reportedly performs some 20% faster than the GTX 1060 - albeit in the rather uncertain AoTS benchmark. Despite Nvidia hoping to keep the ray traced dream alive with its high-end 20-series cards, rumours of it ditching the RTX functionality - such as AI processing Tensor Cores and ray tracing RT Cores - have been growing as of late. These latest AoTS results seemingly confirm that a knocked-back GeForce GTX card to compete in the mid-range is on the way. We’ve been expecting the green team to announce a mid-range graphics card ever since the RTX 2060 launched for $349 - a much greater sum of money than its Pascal GTX 1060 predecessor. Instead the GTX 1660 Ti is alluded to as the true mainstream successor to the Pascal card, but we have to say we’re not fussed on the name. GTX is understandable - so long as you’re in the know - but 16-series... come on!

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