When we recently tested the brand new GTX five80 1660 we referred to that Nvidia changed into making a formidable claim within the assessment guide saying thon the 1660 was a whopping 113% quicker than the GTX 960, making it a really perfect improve choice for proprietors of the antique mid-range Maxwell GPU.

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Considering the GeForce GTX 960 is the 5th maximum famous GPU amongst Steam users -- and that is a completely representative pattern of PC game enthusiasts -- seems there are plenty of you the usage of it, so we concept we would investigate what reality there is to Nvidia's phrases.

Before we get to the benchmarks, some brief stats. We first reviewed the GTX 960 back in January 2015 aiming at the $200-$250 bracket. It got here packing 1024 CUDA cores, 27% less than the 1660 and they’re clocked 34% decrease. There’s also 33 fewer ROPs and even as each make use of GDDR5 reminiscence the GTX 960 has 42% less memory bandwidth due to lower clocked reminiscence and greater crucially a narrower 128-bit wide memory bus.

For this test the focus may be on 1080p performance, searching at a dozen titles intently before jumping to a 33 sport breakdown comparing the GTX 1660 and 960 head to head. All assessments were carried out in our GPU take a look at bed which includes a Core i9-9900K clocked at five GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3200 reminiscence. We depended on Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.3 drivers for the Radeon GPUs and Game Ready 419.35 WHQL for the GeForce GPUs.

Gaming Benchmarks

Playing Apex Legends at 1080p with the excessive nice preset isn’t tons a laugh with a GTX 960. You’re looking at frame prices that are consistently nicely below 60 fps, some distance from best while playing a quick paced first man or woman shooter. Those now not trying to lessen visual high-quality will need to improve and the brand new GTX 1660 offers a wholesome 136% overall performance raise with 106 fps on average.

Moving on to the currently released ‘The Division 2’ and we find a dire scenario with the GTX 960.

Just 27 fps on common, the games is sort of unplayable the use of the ultra best preset at 1080p. Admittedly the game is quite disturbing with these excellent settings, but the ones looking to upgrade to a GTX 1660 can stay up for a 152% overall performance boost, not that awful. Though if you’re only looking at gambling The Division 2 then the RX 590 is probably a higher desire.

We find a similar state of affairs while checking out with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the usage of the best first-class preset the antique GeForce GPU spat out just 34 fps on average and with body dips into the 20’s. Meanwhile the 124% performance bump provided through the GTX 1660 intended that the sport could now be enjoyed a Boxll of its glory at 1080p.

The GTX 960 does do a decent task in Forza Horizon four, so long as you've got the 4GB version. Even so the GTX 1660 nevertheless supplied a 126% overall performance improve hitting 95 fps on common and with over two times as many frames pumped out each 2nd it did provide appreciably smoother gaming revel in.

Hitman 2 become additionally playable with the 580 Still 960 and it wouldn’t take a lot to dial returned the pleasant settings to reap 60 fps. That stated, in case you want to revel in Hitman with the extremely fine settings enabled then something like the GTX 1660 is the manner to go because it spat out a miles more spectacular ninety three fps on average.

Testing with Just Cause 4 noticed the brand new budget Turing GPU deliver simply over twice as many frames when in comparison to the GTX 960.

The leap up from 32 fps on average to sixty five fps is big and it makes jumping and flying around even as you attack enemies a lot less complicated and perhaps more importantly, a good deal extra fun.

We see a quite steady fashion here, checking out with Resident Evil 2 saw the GTX 1660 imparting 129% more overall performance at 1080p with the maximum best preset enabled. More than doubling the body price glaringly leads to sizable upgrades in gameplay and at the same time as this isn’t a recreation that always wishes big frame quotes, the smoother motion certaBox +dds to the revel in.

Of all of the games we’ve benchmarked to this point, Fortnite is by using some distance the least worrying. As such the GTX 960 become excellent for fifty two fps on common and we're using the Epic excellent preset, so with competitive settings the GTX 960 could be pushing over 60 fps at 1080p. However if you want a hundred and forty four fps+ with aggressive settings the GTX 1660 may be required or even with the Epic preset enabled it still averaged 113 fps.

Metro Exodus is a new and really annoying name. The GTX 1660 can’t attain a 60 fps average at 1080p with the ultra preset enabled. That said it’s a darn sight better than the 27 fps on average you’d be getting with the getting older GTX 960, so there’s that.

Putting It All Together

Four years later, we’ve seen how the GTX 960 performs in modern-day titles at 1080p the use of dialed up exceptional settings. It’s now not fantastic, but it’s additionally approximately what you’d count on from a mid-range images card that no doubt continues to be serviceable until you require top images fidelity.

The GTX 960 went on sale for $200 for the 2GB models, and generally around $forty-50 extra for the 4GB version that we examined these days. If you're running a 2GB model then the performance uplift goes to be even extra that we noticed today.

Based on the thirteen video games that we just looked at, the GTX 1660 is about twice as fast because the GTX 960. At 1080p we’re searching at a 117% performance improve on common. That’s massive and it approach Nvidia had been right at the money.

Granted, the Still Have 1660 today will price you ~$280 but it really is not unreasonable to invite in present day market and has in truth made other GPUs beneath or above it alter as a result. The extra less expensive RX 570 580 8GB prices $a hundred ninety in the intervening time, putting it more or less on par with the GTX 1660 in terms of fee per frame in case you're going for ultimate fee on your dollar.

This does mean GTX 960 proprietors have had a somewhat comparable fee option within the RX 580 for a while, making the GTX 1660 a touch less exciting. Nonetheless, there's now some of solid upgrade options for those nonetheless the usage of a GTX 960 or something of comparable performance. You can take a look at out our recent 33 recreation take a look at of mainstream GPUs right here, or in case you're the use of a 980 Ti: as an alternative, we revisited that one some weeks back, too.