APRIL 2019 PCWorld 43commentary until the power and thermals
section, where differences between the two
GTX 1660 Ti models become more clear.GAMING BENCHMARKS
Strange Brigade
Let’s kick things off with Strange Brigade
($50 on Humble at go.pcworld.com/bysb),
a cooperative third-person shooter where
a team of adventurers blast through hordes
of mythological enemies. It’s a technological
showcase, built around the next-gen Vulkan
and DirectX 12 technologies and infused
with features like HDR support and the
ability to toggle asynchronous compute
on and off. It uses Rebellion’s custom
Azure engine. We test with async compute off.RTX 2060 Founders Edition.
To see how EVGA’s graphics card stacks up
against the Radeon competition, we’re also
included performance results from the $260
Sapphire Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ (go.pcworld.
com/590n) (which launched at $280 in
November), the $400 Radeon Vega 56, and
the Asus ROG Strix version of the Radeon RX
- Many Radeon RX 580 models can
consistently be found for under $200 on sale
these days, even in 8GB variants.
Each game is tested using its in-game
benchmark at the highest possible graphics
presets, with VSync, frame rate caps, and all
GPU vendor-specific technologies—like AMD
TressFX, Nvidia GameWorks options, and
FreeSync/G-Sync—disabled, and temporal
anti-aliasing (TAA) enabled to
push these high-end cards to
their limits. If anything differs
from that, we’ll mention it. We
run each benchmark at least
three times and list the average
result for each test.
We limited our testing to
1080p and 1440p resolutions,
as satisfying 4K gaming is
mostly out of the reach of this
class of card. Because the
EVGA GTX 1660 Ti’s gaming
performance results largely
mirror the Asus ROG Strix GTX
1660 Ti’s—it’s a clear Radeon RX
590 killer—we’ll refrain from
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 RadeonNvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)Strange Brigade
(Frames per second)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE6468697284811011161139296961080p 1440p