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It also has a 6GB VRAM buffer, but it’s here where the changes have been made. Nvidia has upgraded the 8 Gb/s GDDR5 memory of the standard 1660 to 14 Gb/s GDDR6 memory and this sees a massive 75% increase in memory bandwidth. In fact, this provides the 1660 Super with even more memory bandwidth than the Ti model. Gigabyte’s Windforce 3X cooler features three 80mm fans, with ribbed fan blades to add rigidity and reduce noise. And those fans spin in alternate directions to minimize turbulence and maximize air-flow through the heatsink’s fins. The overall design is only 2-slots wide, which is nice to see in era where more and more cards essentially require 3 slots locations.
Nvidia’s claimed boost over the GTX GB was spot on here with a 15% advantage in minimum frame rate courtesy of the GTX 1660. Stepping up to 2,560 x 1,440 and there’s very little difference between the RX 590 and GTX 1660, with just a small bump in the minimum frame rate for the Nvidia card. A minimum frame rate of 37fps is a great result here given this is a mid-range resolution at some fairly high settings in this game, although I’d be tempted to opt for the GTX 1660 Ti for a little more headroom.
In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, for example, there was an average of just four frames separating the GTX 1660 and GTX 1060 on Ultra High on 1080p, with the former managing 48fps in its internal benchmark over the latter’s average of 44fps. The GTX 1660 averaged 56fps when Noctis and his boy band lads were running up and down the lush hillsides of Duscae with all of Nvidia’s fancy effects turned off, which to my eyes is pretty much the same as the GTX 1060’s average of 52fps. When compared to the AMD competition, the GTX 1660 Super is a good bit faster than the Radeon RX 590, beating it overall by a 13% margin.
In a world where you can find an (admittedly power-hungry and increasingly dated) AMD RX 580 for $180, NVIDIA needs to be aggressive on price if it wants to really put the squeeze on its rival. Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280×720.
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920×1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware. GeForce ‘s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
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Gigabyte’s Super RTX 2060 Aorus video card has a 1815MHz graphics core clock and 2176 CUDA cores to render high detail visuals. For testing we used our usual GPU test machine sporting a Core i9-9900K clocked at 5 GHz with 16GB of DDR memory. On hand we have two GTX 1660 Super models, the MSI Gaming X and Gigabyte Gaming OC, and both deliver the exact same performance, typically operating at 1965 MHz. The MSI Gaming X peaked at 63 C in our F stress test and with a fan speed of 1700 RPM it was very quiet. The Gigabyte Gaming OC ran 1 degree cooler for the most part, though it did peak at 65 C now and then, the fans also spun 100 RPM faster though both cards were overall very quiet when gaming. The ASUS GPU Tweak II utility takes graphics card tuning to the next level.
The Nvidia Super series has been kind of hit and miss – with the RTX 2080 being a notable flop – but we can’t recommend the gtx 1090 Super enough. GTX 1660 Ti and 1660’s dedicated hardware encoders deliver 15% improved efficiency over prior generation graphics cards and are optimized for Open Broadcaster Software . Intro The GeForce RTX 2060 Super comes with core clock speeds of 1470 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2176 SPUs along with 136 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs. Almost all vendors offer similar performance card, I picked the Asus ones because of the vendor’s reputation and also the fact that there are two fans instead of just one. I think thermal performance is a great indicator of graphics performance, so it’s important to pick a card that has fans that hopefully can dissipate heat quickly.
That means reference versions might be a fair bit slower, and there is the chance that the $219 (£199) launch price of this OC card might not stick around long after release day sales have passed. That won’t make a massive difference in terms of overall gaming performance, but does change the total bill of materials for the new card. GDDR6 may not necessarily be in the HBM2 realms of super-expensive memory tech, but switching to GDDR5 will likely represent a pretty significant cash saving.
The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC also features customizable RGB lighting, which can be controlled via Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion tool. Over and above tweaking the color, the lighting on the card can be set to a number of different modes – like blinking, cycling, solid, etc. There are a couple of LEDs tucked away near the power connectors on the card, to indicate whether power from the PSU is connected and functioning properly as well. The addition of a Walmart Protection Plan adds extra protection from the date of purchase.