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Best Bench: 54% MSI(1462 3160)
Worst Bench: 43% MSI(1462 3160)

Poor: 43% Great: 54%

SPEED RANK: 132^nd / 713

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Best Bench: 73% Nvidia(10DE 2184) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 62% Asus(1043 86BB)

Poor: 62% Great: 73%

SPEED RANK: 105^th / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		49.1 %			68.3 %	Much faster effective speed. +39%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	60.4 fps		90.3 fps	Much better lighting effects. +50%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	70.3 fps		90.8 fps	Better reflection handling. +29%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	66.6 fps	+4%	64.2 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	61.2 fps		78.4 fps	Faster NBody calculation. +28%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	67.8 fps		97.1 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +43%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	94.9 fps		121 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +28%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	69.7 fps	+2%	68.5 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	66.5 fps		82.7 fps	Faster peak NBody calculation. +24%


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +21%	128 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	94 Fps		120 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +28%
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps		81 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +29%
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	53 Fps		76 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +43%
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps		183 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +17%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps		102 Fps	Slightly Better Overwatch Fps. +5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	48 Fps		63 Fps	Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +33%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	189 Fps		306 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +62%
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	121 Fps		131 Fps	Slightly Better DOTA 2 Fps. +8%
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps		117 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +20%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.46 %		1.03 %	Hugely higher market share. +124%
Value Value For Money	58.2 %		77.5 %	Much better value. +33%
User Rating UBM User Rating	69 %		76 %	More popular. +10%
Price Price (score)	$200	+4%	$209


Age Newest	122 Months	68 Months	Much more recent. +44%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	67.7 fps	84.8 fps	Better peak texture detail. +25%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	58.3 fps	74.6 fps	Faster peak complex splatting. +28%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	61 fps	75.7 fps	Better texture detail. +24%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	53.6 fps	70 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +31%

The Nvidia GTX 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. The GTX 970 is based on Nvidia's ground-breaking Maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over Kepler, its predecessor. Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Unsurprisingly Nvidia are discontinuing the 780 Ti as it's now largely redundant. These price to performance gains typically occur once or twice a decade and although the new Maxwell architecture will improve down the line with the release of the Ti/Titan versions, at the moment the 970 offers the best value for money on the market by miles. Since this summary was originally written AMD have slashed prices and older Nvidia models (780/780 Ti/770) have also been hugely discounted. See the latest value for money rankings here. ^{[Jul '15 GPUPro]}

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NVIDIA's GTX 1660 follows hot on the heels of last month's release of the GTX 1660 Ti. As the name would suggest, the 1660 is a slightly scaled back version of the 1660 Ti. Both feature NVIDIAs's new TU116 Turing based die, have 6GB of VRAM, are without RTX cores and have a power draw (TDP) of 120W. The main differences arise from the number of CUDA cores: the 1660 has 1408 whilst the 1660 Ti has 1536, and memory bandwidth: the 1660 can deliver 8 Gpbs using ubiquitous GDDR5 (as featured in the GTX 1060 3GB and 6GB) versus the 1660 Ti which can deliver 12 Gpbs using newer, faster and dearer GDDR6. The 1660 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 GTX 1660 has about a 20% lower effective speed than the 1660 Ti, but with an entry price of $219 USD, the 1660 is also about 20% cheaper. Further, the 1660 has a 12% effective speed advantage over the ~$230 USD 6GB 1060 and a similar real world effective speed to AMD's $265 USD RX 590. NVIDIAs strategy of offering great value Turing products at all price tiers can only be good for competition and consumers. ^{[Mar '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
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