Except for a single outlier, the 1050 Ti on newegg ranges from 180.00 to well over 200.00. If the 1660 sells at 220.00, it will have 50% more performance at essentially the same price. Seems like a fine card to me.
Well, at some point in the not-so-distant past, I picked up a pair of GTX 1050 ti 4GB cards, for only $120 ea. Then the "mining shortage hit", and they went up in price, even though they weren't really useful for mining, as all of the entry-level gamers snapped them up for gaming, and they developed a rep., or word-of-mouth, or whatever, as the "easy 1080P gaming card", and they've stuck at the $180-200 price point since then. Now, I don't even know if NV and partners are even still making them, so that could explain their continued price increase, as mining demand is much lower now for GPUs.
Yeah. It's not mind blowing, but it's pretty decent and a way better option than 590 right now.
Given how much faster 1160 is vs 1050ti, hopefully we see a $139 1150 that is around 1050ti perf or a little better. Something really affordable, that doesn't need PCIe power, and can play most games at 1080/high would be a boon to affordable PC gaming.
That would be really nice. I picked up some MSI GTX 950 2GB GDDR5 OC ITX-sized cards some time ago, too, for like $120 ea., too, or maybe more, my memory about that time is hazy.
Something of the Turing generation, in that price range, would be REALLY nice, esp. if it is capable of 1080P Med/High gaming on modern (2018+) titles, with sufficient CPU. (Intel 9400F is $169, Ryzen R5 1600 hit $119 recently at Newegg. Both 6C.)
But hopefully, even on TU117 cards, the minimum VRAM amount is going to be 4GB, and maybe more, and not less. RX 570 being today's minimum 1080P gaming card, has at least 4GB of VRAM, so I feel most games will need that much, and if NV releases GTX 1650 (ti) with less than 4GB, it will be basically a stillborn product for gaming. (Then again, some people "game", on a GT1030 2GB GDDR5 version.)
Don't get me wrong, I've been very pro-Polaris in the past, and thus far, those cards have been mostly great for me, but I'm ready to try some new cards, and I'm definitely looking at Turing, GTX 1660 / ti / RTX 2060. Although I have no use for RTX features, and I normally don't pay that much for a GPU, $300 is probably around my max. (*)
(*) I did own a GTX 1070 ti for mining for six months, I paid $525 for it, and then it sold it to a member here for the same amount, six months later or so. That worked out fairly well.