PC World (2019-04)

48 PCWorld APRIL 2019

REVIEWS EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1660 TI XC ULTRA

POWER DRAW,

THERMALS, AND

NOISE

We also tested the Sapphire

Radeon RX 590+ using 3DMark’s

highly respected Fire Strike

synthetic benchmark. Fire Strike

runs at 1080p, Fire Strike

Extreme runs at 1440p, and Fire

Strike Ultra runs at 4K resolution.

All render the same scene, but

with more intense graphical

effects as you move up the scale,

so that Extreme and Ultra flavors

stress GPUs even more. We

record the graphics score to

eliminate variance from the CPU.

This is why you can’t test

cards based solely on synthetic

benchmarks, though they’re

wonderful for relative sanity

checks and competitive

overclocking contests.

According to Fire Strike, the GTX

1660 Ti is slower than the Radeon

RX 590, and well behind the GTX

1070. That simply isn’t true in
      actual games.
      We test power draw by
      looping the F1 2018 benchmark
      for about 20 minutes after we’ve
      benchmarked everything else,
      and noting the highest reading
      on our Watts Up Pro meter. The

Sapphire Radeon

RX 590 Nitro+

EVGA GeForce GTX

1660 Ti XC Ultra

Asus ROG Strix

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Nvidia GeForce

GTX 1070 (FE)

AMVega 56D Radeon

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Full system power draw

(Watts)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

60.7

55.6

55.4

52.3

61.8

54.3

250

318

284

329

246

234

Load Idle

3DMark Fire Strike

(Frames per second)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

7, 5 7 8

7, 4 0 6

7,609

8,409

9,538

9,050

3,299

3,692

3,332

4,220

4,866

4,201

16,758

16,913

16,854

17,898

20,624

19,463

Standard Extreme Ultra

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra

Sapphire Radeon RX 590 Nitro+

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Nvidia GeForce

GTX 1070 (FE)

AMD Radeon

Vega 56

Nvidia GeForce

RTX 2060 (FE)