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Best Bench: 36% EVGA(3842 2966)
Worst Bench: 30% HP(103C 2B4D) 2GB

Poor: 30% Great: 36%

SPEED RANK: 164^th / 714

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Best Bench: 81% MSI(1462 3750)
Worst Bench: 70% Gigabyte(1458 3FBE)

Poor: 70% Great: 81%

SPEED RANK: 95^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		32.9 %			76 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +131%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	42.1 fps	96.9 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +130%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	45.5 fps	98.8 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +117%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	36.3 fps	96.9 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +167%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	40.2 fps	89.4 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +122%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	46.4 fps	104 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +124%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	56.8 fps	134 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +136%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	38.2 fps	103 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +170%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	43.3 fps	93.8 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +117%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	138 Fps	156 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +13%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	73 Fps	133 Fps	Hugely Better Fortnite Fps. +81%
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	42 Fps	88 Fps	Hugely Better PUBG Fps. +111%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	42 Fps	74 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +78%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	123 Fps	181 Fps	Much Better LoL Fps. +47%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	70 Fps	110 Fps	Much Better Overwatch Fps. +57%
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	49 Fps	78 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +61%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	37 Fps	82 Fps	Hugely Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +125%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	181 Fps	263 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +45%
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	81 Fps	147 Fps	Hugely Better DOTA 2 Fps. +81%
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	51 Fps	93 Fps	Hugely Better WoW Fps. +84%
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	64 Fps	133 Fps	Hugely Better WoT Fps. +107%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.49 %	0.75 %	Much higher market share. +53%
Value Value For Money	39.3 %	126 %	Hugely better value. +220%
User Rating UBM User Rating	61 %	82 %	Much more popular. +34%
Price Price (score)	$198	$143	Cheaper. +28%


Age Newest	111 Months	61 Months	Much more recent. +45%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	43.7 fps	95.9 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +119%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	37.9 fps	80.1 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +111%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	39.8 fps	87.6 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +120%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	35.1 fps	75.7 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +116%

The new GTX 960 is the third graphics card to feature Nvidia's Maxwell architecture. When the first two Maxwell cards were released back in September 2014 they completely re-shaped the GPU price/performance spectrum not only from Nvidia, but also AMD who were forced to slash prices by around 30%. Unfortunately the new GTX 960 isn't the game changer its predecessors were, and it's actually the weakest of the three Maxwell cards. Comparing the GTX 960 and 970 shows that the 970 is around 70% faster and a comparison of the GTX 960 and 980 shows that GTX 980 is almost exactly twice as fast as the 960. Of the three cards the GTX 970 offers the best bang for your buck, in-fact the GTX 970 is still one of best value cards available. That said, for gaming at 1080p or lower, the GTX 960 will allow decent frame rates at maximum settings for most games. ^{[Jan '15 GPUPro]}

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The GTX 1660 Ti the latest mid-range and mid-priced graphics card for gamers, succeeding the now two year old GTX 1060 6GB. As NVIDIA have tried to imply with their naming convention, performance of this 16 series GPU lies somewhere between their 10 series and 20 series but the 16 does not contain any of the recent RTX cores, which given the lack of RTX ready games, by itself is no hindrance at all. The 1660 Ti features a new TU116 Turing based die, 6GB of VRAM, 1536 CUDA cores and has a 120W TDP which is a remarkably low power draw for its performance. The reference GPU clock speeds are 1500MHz and 1770MHz for base and boost respectively, and manufacturer overclocked speeds will be higher. The 1660 Ti also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Early benchmarks show that the 1660 Ti has a clear 33% effective speed advantage over its $60 cheaper 1060 6GB predecessor and that it performs just 4% slower than the $80 more expensive GTX 1070 in terms of effective speed. As well as crowding out the direct competition from NVIDIA’s own 1070, at an opening price of $280, the GTX 1660 Ti competes squarely with AMD’s RX 590 ($260) which has an 18% lower effective speed. Perhaps this will be an impetus for AMD to adjust pricing for the RX 590 and offer something more value-led in the mid-range. ^{[Feb '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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