NVIDIA Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming 5 (F4 BIOS) and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB on LinuxMint 18.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming 5 (F4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 250GB Crucial_CT250MX2 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: EFI VGA (1500/6000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS VH238, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac OS: LinuxMint 18.3, Kernel: 4.15.0-46-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 418.43, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 32GB Ram 1080i: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming 5 (F4 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 250GB Crucial_CT250MX2 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB (1500/6000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS VH238, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac OS: LinuxMint 18.3, Kernel: 4.15.0-88-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 418.43, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QGears2 XRender + Image Scaling Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers . 1373 |============================= 32GB Ram 1080i ......................... 1499 |================================ Nexuiz 2.5.2 1920 x 1080 w/ HDR Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers . 292 |================================ 32GB Ram 1080i ......................... 304 |================================= Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers . 376 |================================= 32GB Ram 1080i ......................... 378 |================================= Unigine Tropics 1.3 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers . 299 |================================ 32GB Ram 1080i ......................... 304 |================================= GtkPerf 0.40 GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs Seconds < Lower Is Better Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti with Nvidia Drivers . 0.60 |================================ 32GB Ram 1080i ......................... 0.58 |===============================