PC Magazine - USA (2019-08)

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These results help make an interesting case for the esports-focused GeForce
GTX 1660 Ti, if this game happens to be your main squeeze and you play on a
high-refresh-rate monitor. All three cards topped the coveted 144Hz boundary
(even at 4K resolution) using our test settings, and each cleanly surpassed
240Hz at 1080p.


Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege: Despite Rainbow Six: Siege languishing
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hard on this competitor to CS:GO to make it one of the most highly played
games on the Steam platform, with 45 million players and growing as of early






We don’t have a ton of numbers to compare Rainbow Six: Siege’s score to, given
its recent entry into our testing regimen. But the numbers we have show that
while the RTX 2070 Super is plenty powerful enough to keep your frame rates
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close to Nvidia’s esports-focused, much less costly GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.


If you’re buying a card only for esports titles, given the results we saw above,
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AAA games, on the other hand? This is a nice-priced beast.


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experience, despite being more than a few years old. These legacy tests include
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