Hi.

nVidea have introduced a new Graphics Card GTX 1660 Ti to $280. It comes with 6 GB GDDR6 vRam and will be good for HD resolutions. Here are some links with Reviews:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nv ... ,6002.html

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13973/nv ... -xc-gaming

For your information is a successor for GTX 1050 TI: The GTX 1650 with 4 GB vRam, expected at the end of march.

Regards Carsten.

The company name is Nvidia, btw.

And thanks for the links. I assume this card is a little bit underpowered and I'd go for one of the RTX cards instead - the RTX2060 is also quite affordable and much more powerful.

Dieter Scheel wrote:The company name is Nvidia, btw.

And thanks for the links. I assume this card is a little bit underpowered and I'd go for one of the RTX cards instead - the RTX2060 is also quite affordable and much more powerful.

Yep but still only 6 GB of memory, Vega 56 has 8 GB and will give you a bit more headroom with 4k material.

Dieter Scheel wrote:The company name is Nvidia, btw.

When using mixed case, I've always seen it as nVidia. Small n, capital V.

On the web site, the company uses an italics n with all capitals thereafter, calling out the distinction of the n.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvid ... -timeline/

MishaEngel wrote:

Dieter Scheel wrote:The company name is Nvidia, btw.

And thanks for the links. I assume this card is a little bit underpowered and I'd go for one of the RTX cards instead - the RTX2060 is also quite affordable and much more powerful.

Yep but still only 6 GB of memory, Vega 56 has 8 GB and will give you a bit more headroom with 4k material.

But the NVidia will do hardware H264/265 in Resolve.

It's horses for courses. If you need/want hardware H264/265 and aren't going above 4K footage with light grading then the 1660 should be a good value card but if you need the extra RAM and use other codecs for source and final render then the AMD option may be better suited.

Most of the reviews I've seen show the GTX1660 Ti performing slightly better than the old GTX1070 -- which was no slouch for HD work.

RCModelReviews wrote:

MishaEngel wrote:

Dieter Scheel wrote:The company name is Nvidia, btw.

And thanks for the links. I assume this card is a little bit underpowered and I'd go for one of the RTX cards instead - the RTX2060 is also quite affordable and much more powerful.

Yep but still only 6 GB of memory, Vega 56 has 8 GB and will give you a bit more headroom with 4k material.

But the NVidia will do hardware H264/265 in Resolve.

I know, but we use StaxRip for that which also supports AMD hardware x264/265, well to be honest we don't use hardware encoding a lot because of the quality/size ratio, software encoding gives a lot smaller file size with higher quality and when you do it in StaxRip it's still a lot faster than in Resolve or any other program that I know of.

Jim Simon wrote:When using mixed case, I've always seen it as nVidia. Small n, capital V.

Nvidia, nVidia, NVIDIA, but definitely not nVidea.

Dieter Scheel wrote:The company name is Nvidia, btw.

And thanks for the links. I assume this card is a little bit underpowered and I'd go for one of the RTX cards instead - the RTX2060 is also quite affordable and much more powerful.

How much more powerful would the 2060 be over the 1660 TI?

My videos are pretty straightforward. I usually shoot in 4K (8-bit XAVC S 100Mbs) but I monitor in 1080p and output in 1080p.

Things are pretty smooth with my GTX 960 with only 2GB of VRAM, but if I start to add a couple of effects it bogs down quickly.

Will the extra features of the 2060 really make much of a difference to video editors like us???

Black Magic recommends 8 gigs minimum for 4k footage.

I bought the RTX 2070 8 gig last week and I can say it kicks some serious butt. Testing with 2160 4k footage it plays back full resolution in real time with no hiccups.

I don't think I'd go with anything less than this card (for 4k).

Mark_Rodriquez wrote:How much more powerful would the 2060 be over the 1660 TI?

A lot

The RTX2060 is on par with the 1070Ti or even faster.

Will the extra features of the 2060 really make much of a difference to video editors like us???

What extra features are you refering to? If it's the Raytracing thingy - no, this will not make any difference at all in a video editor. All the other features like faster and more memory, more shaders or CUDA cores will make a lot of difference. One of the RTX20x0 is on my wishlist as well - as soon as my budget allows it I'll buy one of those.

Have fun,

Dieter

I was initially looking at the 2060 as well, but my brain said: "maybe I should future-proof" and "it's only a few dollars more", and "if I'm going to be poor anyway..."

I don't regret up-selling myself to the 2070

Everything is going 4k these days, so 1080 is not going to be enough in the coming year(s). Most consumer TV's and computer monitors are UHD now, and even with my 2.5 k monitors I'm annoyed by the pixelation on 1080 YouTube videos. I'm a Luddite, and if I'M finding I have to keep up with technology it's definitely time lol.

PS: Side note - I got the "Aero" version with a squirrel cage fan that exhausts the heat out the rear of the case opposed to the three fan type that just blows the heat around inside the case. These cards are beasts for heat. The Aero versions are actually a few dollars cheaper too with only the one fan to pay for.

VioletWolf wrote:I was initially looking at the 2060 as well, but my brain said: "maybe I should future-proof" and "it's only a few dollars more", and "if I'm going to be poor anyway..."

I don't regret up-selling myself to the 2070

Everything is going 4k these days, so 1080 is not going to be enough in the coming year(s). Most consumer TV's and computer monitors are UHD now, and even with my 2.5 k monitors I'm annoyed by the pixelation on 1080 YouTube videos. I'm a Luddite, and if I'M finding I have to keep up with technology it's definitely time lol.

How many houses have you visited in the last year, to make that kind of claim?

What companies are producing and advertising is not the same as what Average Joes and Janes are buying at Wal-Mart and Best Buy.

I'd actually like to see a sort of survey to see how deep the 4K adoption is.

There's a reason why companies like Nvidia and AMD are still balls deep in producing and heavily marketing video cards targeted at the 1080p market (gaming and otherwise).

At the lower end of the market, we still have laptops being sold with 768p displays... in 2019.

...."in the coming years"

I meant by most TV's and displays are the ones for sale not older models in peoples homes.