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.

There is a cleanly implemented fan stop, the fans run with approx. 1100 rpm (start pulse). The threshold value for the connection is between 62 and 63 degrees, i.e. just below the maximum temperature, which can also be seen by the curves. However, there is no separate fan control with (if necessary) two different fan curves as with the GeForce RTX. The card remains quite quiet even in a closed housing with less than 1500 rpm.

In the stress test, by the way, the curves look very similar.

Let's look at the measured values again in direct comparison to the Founders Edition as a tabular listing:

	MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X
Fan speeds Open Benchtable Maximum	1388 rpm (Gaming, Peak)
Fan speeds Open Benchtable Average	1372 rpm (warmed up)
Fan Speeds Closed Case Maximum	1476 rpm (Gaming, Peak)
Fan Speeds Closed Case Average	1461 rpm (warmed up)
Noise Emission (Air) Average	36.1 to 36.4 dB(A), Closed Case (Peak)
Fan stop	Fan stop
Sound characteristic / hearing impression	noisy, restrained, light engine noise
Coil-feathers/electric noises	Audible at lower fan speeds.

Sound Spectrum

The measured 36.1 dB(A) is based on the measured 1388 rpm in the closed housing. We have applied the same gaming load to the open set-up in the measuring room, but the fans are limited to approx. fixed at 1400 rpm in order to be able to adjust this value exactly. The result is impressive, because you don't really hear much

You can see very well in the video during the warm-up, which frequency ranges are speed-dependent. On the far right you can see the constantly high spikes of the voltage converters and in the middle the demolition noises of the air flow. You can leave that.

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