
Right now this doesn't matter a whole bunch. It's not clear if they're absent altogether or somehow disabled, but regardless the takeaway is that the GTX part can't do the same things as RTX cards can. Shakespeare once wrote "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but even though both the RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti are powered by Nvidia's latest generation Turing GPU architecture, the RTX and GTX nomenclature matters.Īll GeForce RTX cards support real-time ray tracing and DLSS processing, whereas the GTX 1660 Ti lacks the necessary RT and Tensor cores for those things.

The question isn't which card is less expensive, but rather are you better off buying the GTX 1660 Ti or should you spend a bit extra on the RTX 2060? Let's get to it. As is often the case, though, there are more things to consider. Judged on cost alone, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is the clear choice-it's around $70 cheaper.

It doesn't boast the same bells and whistles as Nvidia's RTX cards, but it does trounce the previous generation GeForce GTX 1060, and does so at a palatable price. Now comes along the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, however, and suddenly the choice is a bit murkier for anyone with a few hundred bucks to spend on a graphics card.
