EVGA GTX 1660 Super Review & NVIDIA's Confusing Lineup
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Date: 2020-05-06
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Mike
Nvidia needs to cull its lineup. While it's not a problem for Nvidia, this creates problems for the third-party makers to manufacture and market this many products. More isn't always better. It's just more. For manufacturers, not every card is going to be a winner. And then those manufacturers will end up with surplus inventory in certain cards and eventually have to unload those at a loss. Most sellers aren't going to remove the legacy products. They'll simply sell them alongside the new products until they're sold out. A smaller lineup of products with defined prices vs. performance is much easier for the consumer to understand. When there are too many choices, the average would-be buyer might then at AMD and see a smaller lineup and just go with one of those.
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Nvidia needs to cull its lineup. While it's not a problem for Nvidia, this creates problems for the third-party makers to manufacture and market this many products. More isn't always better. It's just more. For manufacturers, not every card is going to be a winner. And then those manufacturers will end up with surplus inventory in certain cards and eventually have to unload those at a loss. Most sellers aren't going to remove the legacy products. They'll simply sell them alongside the new products until they're sold out. A smaller lineup of products with defined prices vs. performance is much easier for the consumer to understand. When there are too many choices, the average would-be buyer might then at AMD and see a smaller lineup and just go with one of those.
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Der
OMG! NVIDIA thougt: Why just prank the People which bought a 2060, 2070 or 2080 with the super Models for Same Price but faster. no wait. we can f up the 1660Ti buyer as well with selling a Card that is near a 1660Ti for the Price of a 1660. nice Job NVIDIA! I leaved the Team Green with this GTX 970 Prank and 1060 3GB prank, but this is just the beginning! Next year Nobody will buy the new ampere Models because they are scared of the releases of the Super Models. So everyone will buy the super Models and then NVIDIA will bring a ULTRA Model - Faster then super but Same Price Bought a RX 580 4GB for 90. Best Value!
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OMG! NVIDIA thougt: Why just prank the People which bought a 2060, 2070 or 2080 with the super Models for Same Price but faster. no wait. we can f up the 1660Ti buyer as well with selling a Card that is near a 1660Ti for the Price of a 1660. nice Job NVIDIA! I leaved the Team Green with this GTX 970 Prank and 1060 3GB prank, but this is just the beginning! Next year Nobody will buy the new ampere Models because they are scared of the releases of the Super Models. So everyone will buy the super Models and then NVIDIA will bring a ULTRA Model - Faster then super but Same Price Bought a RX 580 4GB for 90. Best Value!
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ChaosHacks
I'm glad Nvidia are making more affordable cards. I live in NZ and can't afford 1299 NZD for a RTX 2080 hell I couldn't even afford the 1080 and had to go for the 1060 6GB version. Even the cheapest 2070 here is NZD 969. I asked Nvidia once if they could make cheaper cards or reduce the price so they would at least be affordable in New Zealand like AMD's is. Seems they listened. It is a shame about there being heaps and heaps of choice now and its hard for people to know the difference but at least they are becoming more affordable.
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I'm glad Nvidia are making more affordable cards. I live in NZ and can't afford 1299 NZD for a RTX 2080 hell I couldn't even afford the 1080 and had to go for the 1060 6GB version. Even the cheapest 2070 here is NZD 969. I asked Nvidia once if they could make cheaper cards or reduce the price so they would at least be affordable in New Zealand like AMD's is. Seems they listened. It is a shame about there being heaps and heaps of choice now and its hard for people to know the difference but at least they are becoming more affordable.
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Glass_
The customers aren't confused, believe me. People tell me. they say, gee sir, we have so many 1060's now! its like the best! They all cried. Except the big one. He was toughest looking nerd at Best Buy. Toughest nerd ever, in the world, probably. And I asked him why aren't you crying with the other nerds? I'm the best! Then that rough and tuff nerd looked me dead in my eye. eyes and said, I'm just happy nvidia cares about us Mr. Huang. Then he couldn't hold back the tears and cried like a baby. Ain't that something? Totally happened.
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The customers aren't confused, believe me. People tell me. they say, gee sir, we have so many 1060's now! its like the best! They all cried. Except the big one. He was toughest looking nerd at Best Buy. Toughest nerd ever, in the world, probably. And I asked him why aren't you crying with the other nerds? I'm the best! Then that rough and tuff nerd looked me dead in my eye. eyes and said, I'm just happy nvidia cares about us Mr. Huang. Then he couldn't hold back the tears and cried like a baby. Ain't that something? Totally happened.
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NoxZero
This week I began planning my new build from my FX6300 750ti set up. DAMN have things changed. The Ryzens are incredible and the GPU market is insane. Spent a couple of days alone comparing the Nvidia cards from the past 3 years. I'm glad I waited cause ima be able to build what would cost me 1500 in 2016 for almost half the price. RAM, SSDs, CPUS, everything is much cheaper. Very excited. the 2060 super is what I want for the new build and I think imma get a 1650 super for my old FX build just for the heck of it.
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This week I began planning my new build from my FX6300 750ti set up. DAMN have things changed. The Ryzens are incredible and the GPU market is insane. Spent a couple of days alone comparing the Nvidia cards from the past 3 years. I'm glad I waited cause ima be able to build what would cost me 1500 in 2016 for almost half the price. RAM, SSDs, CPUS, everything is much cheaper. Very excited. the 2060 super is what I want for the new build and I think imma get a 1650 super for my old FX build just for the heck of it.
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Ben
I don't know. to me it seems Nvidia is bored. It's sitting high with the 2080 ti being uncontested. To me at least it feels like Nvidia is building a card at every price point in order to force a competitor for high end gpu's by flooding the low end. OR the cost for production of high end is so great and demand isn't high enough (by stock holder standards) that Nvidia is trying to cover overhead (or inflate sales) by releasing as many cards that somebody will buy to bring back up the figures.
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I don't know. to me it seems Nvidia is bored. It's sitting high with the 2080 ti being uncontested. To me at least it feels like Nvidia is building a card at every price point in order to force a competitor for high end gpu's by flooding the low end. OR the cost for production of high end is so great and demand isn't high enough (by stock holder standards) that Nvidia is trying to cover overhead (or inflate sales) by releasing as many cards that somebody will buy to bring back up the figures.
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Ryan
I don't get it. IMO it's AMD's line-up that's ridiculous and confusing. Seriously how do you know the difference between a RX 580, a Vega 56, and a RX 5700? You don't without digging into the specs and researching benchmark numbers. At least with Nvidia the numbers are all stepped and follow only ONE pattern. Higher numbers are always better, letters after numbers are incrementally better than vanilla. It's not confusing at all, not to me anyway. And I say that in full objectivity.
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I don't get it. IMO it's AMD's line-up that's ridiculous and confusing. Seriously how do you know the difference between a RX 580, a Vega 56, and a RX 5700? You don't without digging into the specs and researching benchmark numbers. At least with Nvidia the numbers are all stepped and follow only ONE pattern. Higher numbers are always better, letters after numbers are incrementally better than vanilla. It's not confusing at all, not to me anyway. And I say that in full objectivity.
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JSXS
Sold my 980 to a coworker for 140 Got a used 1070 for 160. It runs Apex Legends really reliably, but crashes during most becnhmarks and Spyro Reignited, so IDK if it's in good shape or not. I wish I had Spyro when I still had the 980 to see if that would've run it better because I never had any issues with that card. I almost bought a 1160 TI for 150, but went with the 1070 because it seemed like the better value.
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Sold my 980 to a coworker for 140 Got a used 1070 for 160. It runs Apex Legends really reliably, but crashes during most becnhmarks and Spyro Reignited, so IDK if it's in good shape or not. I wish I had Spyro when I still had the 980 to see if that would've run it better because I never had any issues with that card. I almost bought a 1160 TI for 150, but went with the 1070 because it seemed like the better value.
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lovely
Is there any way to test and compare cuda renders or implement them into the current setup? (I imagine that is why there are that many tiers. People utilizing cuda for work range from huge farms down to people working from home. This might help to make sense of all of that, and would be super useful (to those who do) with your data. Especially enlightening with your contacts to manus.
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Is there any way to test and compare cuda renders or implement them into the current setup? (I imagine that is why there are that many tiers. People utilizing cuda for work range from huge farms down to people working from home. This might help to make sense of all of that, and would be super useful (to those who do) with your data. Especially enlightening with your contacts to manus.
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Guest
I would love to support AMD but it seems all there cards run hot and and that creates noise and that bugs me. I never bought one this is just from what I have read on reviews. Everyone that says no there fine all ya have to do is adjust the fan curve crap bs not going to do that. If AMD could match heat/noise to Nvidia I would be all over that am I wrong?
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I would love to support AMD but it seems all there cards run hot and and that creates noise and that bugs me. I never bought one this is just from what I have read on reviews. Everyone that says no there fine all ya have to do is adjust the fan curve crap bs not going to do that. If AMD could match heat/noise to Nvidia I would be all over that am I wrong?
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