TL;DR Excellent GPU at an excellent price. Air cooled only, but is still impressive.
Longer story:
I had an overly expensive GTX 690 in my Alienware PC. I later replaced it with a cheaper and better EVGA GTX 980Ti. After some amount of years I noticed the GPU was running hot. There was another malfunction w/ the PC, which killed that GPU, so I replaced it with this one. Not much later, I built a new PC and put this GPU in. Since the 980Ti, I feel like I cannot settle for a non-Ti GPU with less than 6GB of VRAM. This GPU is a great replacement for the old one! It can even run Ark: Survival Evolved on epic settings, which I couldn't do before. It didn't always give me 60fps (frames per second) in those games, but it wasn't noticeable, Ark looked amazing once I played it with this GPU! I did eventually see it reach just over 90fps in a certain area. As I said, I'm very impressed with the price/value of this GPU. I'm also impressed that it doesn't require as much power as my last two GPUs, but still performs better. I'm also really impressed with it's cooling capacity. Near the end of their lives, my two previous GPUs got hot, reaching the 80's and 90's (Celsius) easily. I remember near the end of it's life the 980Ti would reach the 60's and 70's just idling. The idle temp of this one is high 30's, mid 40's. I tested it with some software I can't recall the name of. Under heavy load it did reach 80c, which concerned me. I asked EVGA and they said that this is definitely within tolerable range for this GPU. While gaming it hasn't reached 80c, which is impressive for an air cooled GPU. At first I was disappointed that I couldn't find some kind of AIO water cooling unit for it, but I've since realized that it doesn't need it. I did try to overclock it, but I don't think I really noticed a difference in performance. The only reason I noticed an increase in FPS and how fast it was running was by monitoring it with EVGA's Precison X1.
I bought this for the value and because ray tracing isn't widely used yet, so I realized I could live without an RTX GPU. Now that ray tracing is coming to Minecraft, I wish I had the money to buy a RTX 2080 Super or Ti, but they're expensive! Luckily, EVGA has a Step Up program that may let you upgrade your GPU to a new one for a discount. I may do that eventually. I did spend more money and bought the 10 year warranty, which I think is impressive. So far, I love this GPU!
| RAM | 6 GB |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 12000 GHz |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 6 GB |
