Turing Light: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch with the MSI GTX 1060 Ti Gaming X and the MSI GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS

So Nvidia has managed to re-create a Turing chip that takes conventional paths in the well-known RTX-Off style and yet can still bring the innovations of the architecture over. We'll see how much of it arrives in the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. For any player who is now wondering how Nvidia's Turing architecture would work if the Tensor and RT cores were taken out, I also have the answer today in the form of this test.

Temperature gradients and boost clock in detail

The cooler of the MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X honors its name and keeps the card sufficiently cool. After all, 63 to 64 °C in an open structure and a maximum of 65° in the closed housing are now nothing to scare you. On the contrary. The higher power target of this card compared to the other two ensures that the beat still plays along quite well. The MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X marches as unleashed and swaying fully heated between 1950 MHz and 1920 MHz.

In the stress test, of course, the clock rates break down a little more clearly.

And now the whole thing again in sober numbers in table form:

	Initial MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X	Final value MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X
Open Benchtable
GPU Temperatures	40 °C	63 to 64 °C
GPU clock	2010 MHz	1935 to 1950 MHz
Ambient temperature	22 °C	22 °C
Closed Case
GPU Temperatures	41 °C	65 °C
GPU clock	2010 MHz	1920 to 1935 MHz
Air temperature in the housing	24°C	46°C

Board Analysis: Infrared Images

The following infrared images show the gaming and torture loops in the open structure and in the closed housing. The differences are hardly visible and the cooler acts very confidently. Of course, the measured 130 watts are also nothing that you couldn't cool with a wet finger

In the closed case, the drama remains, the card hardly lays. The 1 to 2 degrees more can still be given nonchalantly, it does not change the solid overall picture.

The stress test produces a very similar picture, whether it's a gaming or torture loop.

But even in the torture loop, the memory remains cool, as well as the VRM even in the shot case still acceptablely hot. But not too hot, because everything below 90 °C is completely harmless.