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NVIDIA Collaborates With PUBG, Offers Exclusive Limited Edition Skins

NVIDIA has been known to have collaborated with many game studios. The joint ventures generally revolve around close optimization with its popular graphics cards; in some cases also involves game copies offered with the purchase of the said video card. The company is now working with PUBG Corp. to bring exclusive limited edition tracksuits which will be bundled with the purchase of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti, 1660 and 1650 graphics card or gaming laptops.

PUBG or PlayUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online multiplayer looter shooter that took the world by storm. Its revolutionary battle royale genre gave the game a unique identity. The new style of gameplay involves the last man standing formula in a vast open map. The game is extremely popular and is known to have collaborated with other companies as well. According to a report, NVIDIA is now planning to incorporate its signature green style into the video game.

The unique green tracksuit will be available as an in-game cosmetic item which will be offered to customers that buy the latest entry of NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card. The offer includes the GTX 1660Ti, GTX 1660, and GTX 1650 cards and gaming laptops. It is a promotional marketing move from team green that seeks to promote its latest iteration of entry to medium level performance video cards. The GTX 1660TI and 1660 are the successors of one of the most popular graphics card the GTX 1060; while the GTX 1650 will seek to replace the ageing budget GTX 1050 and 1050Ti cards.

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The new offer from NVIDIA will be available for prospective buyers till 30th September 2019. The promotional slogan goes by “Don’t Dress To Survive, Dress To Win” and certainly holds true with flashy green and white aesthetics. Design features a letterman’s jacket on top while the bottom an entirely green track pants. Many OEMs have made gaming laptops that are equipped with the aforementioned graphics card and will also offer the unique game item.

July 5, 2019
GTX 1660 Ti With 6GB GDDR6 RAM Launched

Nvidia is an American company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming and professional markets. Late last year the company launched the Titan RTX GPU which is targetted towards the premium sector. On 22 February 2019, the company launched a new GPU chip called GTX1660 Ti which is targetted towards the mid range sector.

GTX 1660 Ti Features

The all new GTX 1660 Ti chip is based on the 12th generation Turing Architecture. Unlike the GTX 1060 which can be deemed its predecessor is based on the Pascal architecture. According to Nvidia, the architecture on the latest chip is 1.4x power efficient than Pascal architecture. The GTX 1660 Ti requires 120 watts of power to operate and taking the increased power efficiency into consideration, it delivers the best performance per watt of any GPU in its class.

The GTX 1660 Ti features 1,536 Cuda cores that have a boost clock of 1.8 GHz. The new chip packs 6 GB of GDDR6 memory which has a transfer rate of up to 12 Gbps. The company has also added that overclocking the new chip is fairly easy. The GTX 1660 TI has dedicated hardware encoder that delivers 15% improved efficiency over prior generation graphics cards. Noteworthy, the new chips is also optimized for Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) which is the most popular software used by streamers globally.

The GTX 1660 Ti also has built-in support for Nvidia ANSEL which allows taking high-quality screen captures and 360-degree photospheres of games. It also has support for Nvidia Freestyle technology that allows the gamers to customise the appearance of their games with post-processing technology. This filter can convert gameplays or photos to resemble watercolour paintings, oil paintings or even retro movies.

GTX 1660 Ti Price

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GPU’s based on GTX 1660 Ti chip start at US $ 279 (around Rs 19,800). However ready to purchase GPU’s from manufacturers like Asus, EVGA, MSI, PNY, Zotac will slightly differ in price dependent on region and features like single or double fans.

February 22, 2019
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Retail Packaging Images Surface Again

As we approach the rumoured launch date of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti, even more images of the graphics card retail packaging appear online. Sources claim that they captured images of retail packaging of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC, Palit GTX 1660 Ti StormX and Galax GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. And looking at the images, the pictures look like they’re very authentic.

Rumoured Launch Dates

All three cards look like the variants of the upcoming Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. The speculated graphics card is supposed to release on February 22. Previously, a launch date of February 15 was expected, but that has been postponed to exactly a week later.

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti: Features

The retail packaging images clearly show the presence of the much-speculated GPU’s Turning Shaders. It also shows that the 1660 Ti will have 6 gigs of GDDR6 memory. One thing to note here is that the absence of any Ray Tracing information on the retail box may mean that the 1660 series won’t support Ray tracing.

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Nothing has been announced by Nvidia so far, so we can consider all these reveals as leaks. But sources say that the rumoured launch date is already on the line. Hopefully, we’ll be able to believe in the 1660 Ti very soon?

February 12, 2019