Nvidia 's GPU refresh process has been going on non-stop for the past few months, with new low-end GPUs replacing the Pascal architecture. GPUs like the GTX 1660 Ti lack the signature features of the Turing architecture, such as ray tracing and DLSS support. The 1660 Ti was also the only GPU in the family to show a significant improvement in performance per dollar as well as raw performance. Therefore, it will be interesting to see if the 1660 and 1650 will repeat this trend.
New leaks from VideoCardz show both the new GPUs and the expected specs for the new hardware.
Both the 1660 and 1650 Ti are expected to use GDDR5 rather than the faster and more expensive GDDR6, which debuted in higher-end GPUs. The GeForce 1660 will be a competitor to the RX 590, as it increases the core count by ~10 percent over the GTX 1060. Overall power consumption will undoubtedly favor Nvidia in this comparison, whether it has the RX 590 or RX 580 as a benchmark. The 1660's power appears to be supplied by a single 8-pin PCIe port.
The 1650 is a bit more interesting. If the rumors about its configuration are accurate, the part looks sluggish compared to the GPUs it will compete with. The increase from 768 GPU cores in the 1050 Ti to 896 in the 1650 would be welcome, but the RX 570 is on average 1.42x faster than the 1050 Ti, and going from 768 GPU cores to 896 is a mere 1.16x gain. That's to say nothing of the RX 580, which has dropped to <$200 and offers even more cores, memory bandwidth, and RAM to compete with.
Assuming these are the configurations Nvidia is bringing to market, it doesn't seem like it has any intention of seriously competing with AMD in this space. To be fair, there's no real reason for it to do so. The latest data from Jon Peddie Research shows that AMD lost significant market share in Q4 2018 compared to Q3 and performed even worse than Q42017 .
Clearly, keeping prices at $200, while something AMD does well, is no substitute for competitive GPUs. AMD currently doesn't have any. The price for a new Vega 56 is back to $400 after a small discount, while a new Vega 64 is priced at $500. And that's simply not competitive against Nvidia's current RTX GPU lineup.
