Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti review: Turing rising from the RTX ashes with the Asus Phoenix

The Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti, the worst kept secret in PC hardware, launched this week and we’ve got the GPUs to prove it. Specifically this Asus Phoenix OC card and another ROG STRIX GTX 1660 Ti, displaying different ends of the mainstream Turing spectrum, and with very different PCGN recommendations too. Yes, the 16-series has launched. After the 20-series. With the GTX prefix instead of RTX. With this being the first in a new range of GeForce graphics cards it’s hard not to feel a little like GPU technology is in retrograde. But, after the lukewarm reception the 20-series graphics cards received for their introduction of real-time ray tracing and AI-assisted imagery, it’s not surprising to see the mainstream Turing chips stepping backwards in terms of next-gen tech. But that’s not to say these Turing GPUs aren’t without their graphics enhancements over the last-gen Pascal graphics cards. You may be losing the RT and Tensor Cores, but there is still enough in the new 16-series silicon to give your games a genuine performance boost.

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